“ For DNB00 life is much harder. Starting with all the names on author pages, sorting will not give a great result, for several reasons:
The order will be wrong, sometimes because the dates will not be sorted as the DNB does, sometimes because the DNB gives monarchs precedence, and for other reasons to do with the requirements of DNB order that matter more in this case. The names on author pages are not yet properly disambiguated, so there will be some duplicate names and other anomalies. ”