I think this is a better approach - doing the work in Wikidata.

In Wikidata I don't think we've done a great (or consistent) job of
modeling organizational data well for things like libraries. For example
many public libraries are branches that are part of a system. Both should
be represented as parent / child.

Fwiw there are over 16,000 public libraries in the United States.

Merrilee

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 5:17 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
> >
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