Hi Andrea,

in 2009, I created a mapping from "STW Thesaurus for Economics" to Dbpedia. The 
links on the RDFa pages and the download dataset are still present and 
minimally adjusted to new versions on http://zbw.eu/stw. The approach, as 
described in http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-538/ldow2009_paper7.pdf, is outdated now - 
particularly because it could not use the Wikidata inter-language links.

I wonder if somebody has described a mapping process for a multilingual 
thesaurus to Wikipedia/Wikidata/DBpedia using today's facilities. Or if perhaps 
some code for this is already available somewhere.

Cheers, Joachim



Von: LC Linked Data Service Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] Im 
Auftrag von Edward Summers
Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014 15:38
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [ID.LOC.GOV] Fwd: [libraries] Collaborations with National Libraries 
over thesauri and authority control

Of possible interest...

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From: Andrea Zanni <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [libraries] Collaborations with National Libraries over thesauri and 
authority control
Date: January 21, 2014 at 9:34:56 AM EST
To: "Wikimedia & Libraries" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Mathias 
Schindler 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, RĂ©mi 
Mathis <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Liam Wyatt 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Cristian Consonni 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Luca Martinelli 
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Hi all,
I hope you are well.

I would like to ask you if you are aware of any project concerning the 
collaboration of a National Library with Wikipedia, regarding things as 
theasuri and authority control.

Last summer,
the National Library of Florence (BNCF) approached Wikimedia Italia for a 
project of synchronization of the Italian thesaurus (thesaurus del Nuovo 
Soggettario [1]) with Wikipedia.
They thesaurus linked to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia didn't link back.
We asked the community and then synchronized the links between the Italian 
Wikipedia and the BNCF Thesaurus (now around 8'000).
The links were later uploaded within a property in Wikidata (see 
property:P508[2]), and are now recalled automatically by Template:Thesaurus 
BNCF[3]  on it.wikipedia.

Right now, the BNCF would be eager to know if other theasuri had the same idea, 
as for the multilingual nature of Wikidata it would be "easy" to link thesauri 
in different languages, per Wikidata.
It is the very same idea that animated the VIAF project: right now, Wikidata 
contains several identifiers for people and books, being a "super-authority 
control" (as Max called it :-).

Using Wikidata as a bridge/cross walk would be very important and fairly 
"cheap": synchronizing 2 different thesauri isn't normally a easy job, but 
Wikipedias have already done the difficult part.

The BNCF team has been working in the past years to connect other subject 
authority control lists. At the time being, 4000 tems in Italian thesaurus link 
to their equivalent LCSH term, and the LSCH linked back in the last weeks, via 
SKOS/RDF.
The BNCF is doing the same with the French authority control RAMEU [4], from 
BNF, and  the European community one EUROVOC [5].

So, the question is:
are you aware of any project like this? Does your library mantain a thesaurus 
and aiming to put that on Wikipedia/Wikidata?

Aubrey

[1] http://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ricerca.php
[2] 
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P508<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty%3AP508&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNES2Kai1a2kHor83XRugNKEzQ6Ntg>
[3] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Thesaurus_BNCF
[4] http://data.bnf.fr/
[5] http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
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