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 has are mismatched records for foreign authors (whose names sometimes have various spellings in English, or even just two different authors with the same name) and translated books, so having a multilingual database of books, where all the titles across all the languages in which the book has been published, along with accurate and consistent spelling of authors' names, would be hugely beneficial for everyone!
Sincerely, Nicholas Michael Bashour President Wikimedia District of Columbia Washington, DC, USA 2012/5/24 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 > >
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