Thanks Olaf! This kind of Wikidata data collection is actually a huge part of the conversation behind The Finding GLAMs initiative led by Wikimedia Sweden. If you want to contribute, learn more on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs
Cheers, Alex On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:17 AM Olaf Janssen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently doing a project to register all public library organisations > (pm 150 in numbers) and their branches (pm 1450) in The Netherlands in > Wikidata: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Netherlands_Public_Libraries > > Currently still very much work in progress (hence the messy page), I've > done approx. 550 out of 1600 libraries: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Netherlands_Public_Libraries/Branches > > The plan is to also include all the tables in Dutch & English Wikipedia, > so to significantly expand > https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_bibliotheken#Nederland with Dutch > public libraries > > I know that User:Sic19 has done similar work for the public libraries in > Wales: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sic19#SPARQL_queries > > > Best > Olaf Janssen > Wikipedia & open data @ KB | Nationale Bibliotheek > https://www.kb.nl/wikipedia > > > > > Frederick Noronha, 06/04/19 12:22: > >> Dear all: Please help to build list of libraries in your part of the > world. > >> Some links > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries > >> Indian Wikipedians, this could do with some love: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_India > >> This seems impressive to me (but I don't know how many are missing): > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Australia > >> And here's a listing from Nigeria > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Nigeria > >> Fredericknoronha > > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
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