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] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cite_doi_templates 2012/5/25 Klein,Max <[email protected]> > 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,**** > > ** ** > > Max Klein**** > > Wikipedia in Residence**** > > [email protected]**** > > +17074787023**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/
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