On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Klein,Max <[email protected]> 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 million bibliographic records > about books, journals and other library items. We would really like to > partner with you as Wikidata is being built, in incorporating our data into > your project. > > > > What we can offer: > > · WorldCat.org metadata http://www.worldcat.org/ . > > o Typically, for any work we have most of the following: title, authors, > publisher, formats, summaries, editions, subjects, languages, intended > audience, all associated ISBNs, length, and abstract. > > · APIs to this data http://oclc.org/developer/ > > o And some other cool APIs like xISBN which returns all the ISBNs of all > the editions of book on the input of any single one. > > · Library finding tools > > o When viewing a record on our site, we show you the closest library which > has that work, and links to reserve it for pick-up. > > · The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) http://viaf.org/, > which is an Authoritative Disambiguation file > > o That means that we have certified data on disambiguation of Authors > > · WorldCat Identities, an Analytics site > http://www.worldcat.org/identities/ > > o It gives you for Author metadata and analytics: Alternative names, > significant dates, publication timelines, genres, roles, related authors, > and tag clouds of associated subjects. > > > > What’s in it for us: > > · We are a not-for-profit member cooperative. Our mission is > “Connecting people to knowledge through library cooperation.” > > · Since I work at the research group, for now this is just a > research project. > > o If at some point this goes live - and you want to - we’d like to > integrate the “find it at a library near me” feature, that means > click-throughs for us. > > > > The ideas: > > There are a lot of possibilities, and I’d like to hear your input. These are > the first few that I’ve can come up with. > > · Making infoboxes for each book or author that contains all their > metadata. > > o Ready to incorporate into all language projects. > > · Using authority files to disambiguate or link works to their > creators. > > o Solving DABs > > · Using our analytics (e.g. author timelines) as Wikidata data types > to transclude. > > o Curating articles with easy to include dynamic analytics > > · Populating or creating works/author pages with their > algorithmically-derived history and details. > > o Extremely experimental semantic work. > > > > I’m roaring and ready to get this collaboration going. I know Wikidata is at > an early stage, and we are willing to accommodate you. > > Send me any feedback or ideas,
Hi Max :) Great to hear. This does indeed sound interesting. I'm currently pretty busy with a conference but I'll bring it up with the right people when I'm back in the office on Tuesday if none of them reply to you here before that. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
