On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Klein,Max kle...@oclc.org wrote:
Hello Wikidata Wizards,
Phoebe Ayers from the Board recommended I talk to you. My name is Max Klein
and I am the Wikipedian in Residence for OCLC. OCLC owns Worldcat.org the
world’s largest holder of Library data at 264
I think that what Max is proposing is very interesting. I have worked with
OCLC data before. It's fantastic and could be a huge boon to the WIkidata
project.
I hope you'll seriously consider this offer to collaborate.
Evan
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Evan Sandhaus
Lead Architect, Semantic Platforms
The New York
OCLC-Wikidata sounds very interesting.
I wonder whether the Wikidata people have thought about notability, and
if/when there is much lower notability criteria the amount of data that
could potentially be stored in Wikidata.
In Wikipedia we do not have individual articles on scientific
Hi Max;
Is WorldCat aware of the Wikidata free license?
I think that it is a good idea to include that info in Wikidata, that and
the DOI metadata, which is currently generated like this[1] (only available
in English Wikipedia).
Regards,
emijrp
[1]
I just want to add that we at Wikimedia DC are working to partner with the
Library of Congress and form a long term relationship (awww!), and having
something like this would be great! Our board member Kristin Anderson (who
works at the Library) mentioned that one of the problems that the library
Hello Wikidata Wizards,
Phoebe Ayers from the Board recommended I talk to you. My name is Max
Klein and I am the Wikipedian in Residence for OCLC. OCLC owns
Worldcat.org the world's largest holder of Library data at 264 million
bibliographic records about books, journals and other library
