+ for open library
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>wrote: > Bibliographical properties on Wikidata are listed here: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force > > In the last months, we tried to creade a metadata scheme to "cover" the > main elements of book classification. > It is not MARC21, of course, but I think that pretty much simple Dublin > Core is covered. > At the beginning, I drafted a mapping between different Wikimedia project > templates (Wikipedia book Infobox, Commons' template Book, Wikisource's > Index metadata form) > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlPNcNlN2oqvdFQyR2F5YmhrMWpXaUFkWndQWUZyemc#gid=0 > It is far from perfect, but it gives an idea of which things could be > missing. > > I'd love too to collaborate with openlibrary, but at the beginning of our > IEG project, me and Micru contacted them, in the person of Karen Coyle > (User:Kcoyle), > a very famous and skilled metadata librarian who is somehow in charge of > the project now. > She told us that openlibrary is frozen, at the moment, and there is no > staff nor funds to get that going. > Openlibrary was previously funded but internet Archive. > > If someone could build the tool you proposed, Luiz, that would be awesome, > but I'm not a technical person and I'm not able to understnd if that is > feasible or not. > If we have other feedbacks on that, we could propose it as a projects for > the next Google Summer of Code: that is a great way to getting technical > things done. > > Aubrey > > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Luiz Augusto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Douillard < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> That's why I think we must do a lot more with such datas than just >>> importing them from openlibrary, as they are really important to Mediawiki >>> in general, and that the community as a whole is a powerful drinving force >>> for Bibliographical datas. I'm not against cooperating with openlibrary, >>> but we should seek deep cooperation and integration with them so both >>> projects can benefits from each others community. >>> >> >> +1 on this >> >> openlibrary.org have a limited set of fields. >> >> Moreover, simply importing data at some random time of some random >> records will not benefit neither openlibrary neither Wikimedia. >> >> You will first need to search if Wikidata don't have the needed >> information, search again for it in openlibrary, create the content in >> openlibrary, import the content into Wikidata, make the desired local >> changes and send back to openlibrary any local relevant changes. >> >> But I had an idea: a MediaWiki User Interface to openlibrary data >> >> openlibrary.org offers access to records in 3 ways: >> >> * read/write of individual records through API; >> * read of individual records through RDF and JSON; >> * bulk download of the entire dataset >> >> So i'ts possible to: >> >> 1) Import the bulk data; >> 2) Catch all changes from openlibrary.org in real time; >> 3) Allows that the synced data can be browsable and editable at any time >> on MediaWiki/Wikidata instances; >> 4) Sends back to openlibrary the changes, storing locally the data from >> custom fields in the MediaWiki instance (allowing further import at >> openlibrary instance if they creates the corresponding fields in their DB); >> 5) Sends back to openlibrary all new book records created on MediaWiki >> instances. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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