There is a Grant Proposal from a couple of weeks ago that is relevant to
this discussion.  "Wikidata items for sources, such as a journal article,
contain metadata that could be used to generate a citation from that item
to be used on a wiki."

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Tools_for_using_wikidata_items_as_citations

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not as familiar with Wikidata as WP - are the citation "templates" the
> same? If so, I'll do some mapping. Where would it be best to put them?
>
> kc
>
> On 10/9/14, 3:47 PM, Paula Kate Marmor wrote:
>
>> Please let me know how I can help with this mapping effort.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     Karen Coyle, 05/10/2014 20:25:
>>
>>         Aubrey - there are a LOT of mappings there. Am I correct that
>>         none of
>>         them are mappings to the {{cite}} templates?
>>
>>         Having been steeped (if not petrified) in MARC21 for decades, I
>>         could
>>         attempt a mapping to the {{cite}} templates. It would cover books,
>>         music, movies, possibly photographs, and maybe art works.
>>         Articles are
>>         not usually coded in MARC but a mapping could be made.
>>
>>
>>     Vlsergey offered to make a gadget to import MARC records into
>>     Wikidata entries! :D Please get in touch. Thanks both in advance, it
>>     will be great.
>>     <https://www.wikidata.org/w/__index.php?title=Wikidata_talk%
>> __3AWikiProject_Books&diff=__162771850&oldid=162771302
>>     <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata_talk%
>> 3AWikiProject_Books&diff=162771850&oldid=162771302>>
>>
>>     Nemo
>>
>>         Note that there is a mapping in OpenLibrary from their books data
>>         (derived from MARC but not in MARC), and with a single click you
>>         get the
>>         filled in book citation template for the book. I use this a lot.
>>         Some of
>>         us have been wishing that OCLC WorldCat would do the same. It
>> makes
>>         sense to have the mapping happen at the discovery point.
>>
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