Due to weird reasons my message was sent only to wikidata-l. Re-sending to wikisource-l. Sorry for any inconvenience
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Luiz Augusto <lugu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Douillard < > thomas.douill...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> That's why I think we must do a lot more with such datas than just >> importing them from openlibrary, as they are really important to Mediawiki >> in general, and that the community as a whole is a powerful drinving force >> for Bibliographical datas. I'm not against cooperating with openlibrary, >> but we should seek deep cooperation and integration with them so both >> projects can benefits from each others community. >> > > +1 on this > > openlibrary.org have a limited set of fields. > > Moreover, simply importing data at some random time of some random records > will not benefit neither openlibrary neither Wikimedia. > > You will first need to search if Wikidata don't have the needed > information, search again for it in openlibrary, create the content in > openlibrary, import the content into Wikidata, make the desired local > changes and send back to openlibrary any local relevant changes. > > But I had an idea: a MediaWiki User Interface to openlibrary data > > openlibrary.org offers access to records in 3 ways: > > * read/write of individual records through API; > * read of individual records through RDF and JSON; > * bulk download of the entire dataset > > So i'ts possible to: > > 1) Import the bulk data; > 2) Catch all changes from openlibrary.org in real time; > 3) Allows that the synced data can be browsable and editable at any time > on MediaWiki/Wikidata instances; > 4) Sends back to openlibrary the changes, storing locally the data from > custom fields in the MediaWiki instance (allowing further import at > openlibrary instance if they creates the corresponding fields in their DB); > 5) Sends back to openlibrary all new book records created on MediaWiki > instances. > > > >
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