Wow, thanks for this, Olaf - great work! Hopefully we will get the bibliographic data for those libraries into Wikidata one day too (or into some other bibliographic database). Getting more people into libraries starts with awareness of local institutions of course.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 2:17 PM 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 >
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