Thanks Emilio, Andrea and Wikidatans, I'm curious how Wikidata / wiki 3D interactive virtual earth libraries (building on Markus's beautiful maps, for example) will create digital libraries in all 7,929 languages re my post from yesterday, but concerning digital readable books "in the stacks" ...
"in what ways could such Commons' photos/images with millions of coordinates, related video resources, and other related Wikipedia items be incorporated into a 3D film-realistic interactive wiki-informed virtual world - think Google Earth with OpenSim, Second Life, Illustris + - and in a way that's wiki-buildable, and could be used even for STEM-research (e.g. mapping in specific photos and videos from the various archaeological digs at Troy), and decade-by-decade to begin, even, for a kind of historical reference time frame virtual-world mapping?" ... and especially first in the PUBLIC libraries in all countries. Will every book in every language eventually get a Wikidata Q-item reference with coordinates and be includable in such a wiki virtual earth? Best, Info (Scott) On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone. > > For Italian libraries, you can find a good csv here: > http://opendata.anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/territorio.zip > > Cristian Consonni also had a project of importing all of them on > OpenStreetMap: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RCantoroBot/Anagrafe_delle_biblioteche_italiane/Import_plan > (I think the project is frozen though). > > In Italy we are working a lot with libraries and librarians, but I think > it needs a cultural (so, looong) approach: > we are doing workshops, editathons, lectues on Wikipedia, Wikisource, > Wikidata too. > > They are very interested in Wikidata, but it scares them a little (RDF, > linked open data, knowledge base are scary words for most people). > > I very much like the "gaming" approach of Magnus's tools, as it can be a > bridge in teaching librarians how to cope with wikidata with things they > understand better. For example, here's the Mix 'n' match tool for > reconciling authors from the National Authority Control and Wikidata: > > http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=random&catalog=58&submode=unmatched# > > We are collaborating directly with the National Library of Florence, too. > > Finally, in Google Summer of Code 2014 Amanpreet Singh worked on a project > for annotating books and get the annotate "statement" directly on Wikidata: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_report > The idea is that you could read the web, than find a "fact", and then > highlight it and get a statement that gets feeded on Wikidata. > > Unfortunately, I think that project has been abandoned too (but it seems > that the code works). > > IMHO, that would be very useful for librarians and not: as you read you > can populate Wikidata. > > Aubrey > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> >> >> Imagine my delight that you are creating a list of all the libraries in >> the world! However this does present a bit of an issue – are all libraries >> notable? The American Library Association estimates that there are around >> 120,000 libraries but doesn’t have an exact number because there is not a >> survey that covers all of them. Since librarians are discouraged from >> creating articles about their own institutions, this could be problematic? >> If this is an initiative that has broad approval I’m happy to help in any >> way that I can! >> >> >> >> http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet01 >> >> >> >> Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer >> OCLC Research >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Emilio J. >> Rodríguez-Posada >> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2015 1:41 AM >> *To:* Discussion list for the Wikidata project.; Wikimedia & Libraries >> *Subject:* Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, >> 000 facts added a year ? >> >> >> >> 2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <[email protected]>: >> >> 2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea <[email protected]>: >> >> Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries / >> librarians by country? >> >> >> >> I compiled some numbers here >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries >> >> And started a list of lists that needs to be completed >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country >> >> >> >> Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries >> so they can provide info about all the libraries for each country? >> >> I have been working in Lists of museums/archives/libraries by country >> long time, but I only find partial lists and the work is slow. How can we >> make these institutions get involved? >> >> >> >> >> All the best, >> Lucian >> >> >> >> On 23.06.2015 9:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> >> Hoi, >> >> That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world >> out there !! >> >> Thanks, >> >> GerardM >> >> >> >> On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it per >> work day in their spare 2 mins a day. >> >> >> >> >> >> 119,729 Libraries in USA >> >> x >> >> 1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-) >> >> x >> >> 251 work days in a year >> >> = >> >> 30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified >> >> >> >> Get the word out, >> >> Thad >> >> +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikidata mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - 415 480 4577 - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010. 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