Reconciliation API support

[wetneb]

Hello!

Thank you for this app! I am wondering if you are aware of the reconciliation API, which is designed for the problem ba[sic?] tackles:
https://reconciliation-api.github.io/specs/latest/

In short, this is a unified API to match a user-supplied dataset to an authority database. For instance, the two data sources you support so far (GND and Geonames) have reconciliation endpoints, and you can query them as follows:

• https://lobid.org/gnd/reconcile?queries=%7B%22q0%22%3A%7B%22query%22%3A%22Markus+Miller%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22DifferentiatedPerson%22%7D%7D
• https://api.exldevnetwork.net/geonames-openrefine/reconcile?queries=%7B%22q0%22%3A%7B%22query%22%3A%22Leipzig%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22places%22%7D%7D

If ba[sic?] was made to use this API, it would immediately support a lot more sources. Here is a list of publicly available endpoints:
https://reconciliation-api.github.io/testbench/

If there are any aspects of the API that prevent you from switching to it, I would be very interested to know what they are. The community is still actively improving the specifications:
https://www.w3.org/community/reconciliation/

Herzliche Grüße aus Wurzen