Lars Aronsson wrote: > Yann Forget wrote: > >> As I already said, the first steps would be to import existing >> databases, and Wikimedians are very good at this job. > > Do you have a bibliographic database (library catalog) of French > literature that you can upload? How many records? Convincing > libraries to donate copies of their catalogs has been a bottleneck > for OpenLibrary.
No, I don't have such a database. There is a copyright on databases in Europe, which makes things complicated. Probably we need to start with libraries which are already collaborating with open content projects. There was a GLAM-wiki meeting in Australia recently: there might be a possibility with an Australian library? But even before that, if we could extract the data from Wikimedia projects, we could create a basic working frame. I have been collecting such data on Wikisource and Wikibooks, but the lack of a structured system is a bottleneck. Examples: 1. Comprehensive bibliography of Gandhi in French http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bibliographie_de_Gandhi 2. French translations of Russian authors: http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussion_Auteur:L%C3%A9on_Tolsto%C3%AF http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussion_Auteur:F%C3%A9dor_Mikha%C3%AFlovitch_Dosto%C3%AFevski Regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
