I think this is a better approach - doing the work in Wikidata. 

In Wikidata I don't think we've done a great (or consistent) job of modeling organizational data well for things like libraries. For example many public libraries are branches that are part of a system. Both should be represented as parent / child. 

Fwiw there are over 16,000 public libraries in the United States. 

Merrilee

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 5:17 AM Olaf Janssen <Olaf.Janssen@kb.nl> wrote:
I'm currently doing a project to register all public library organisations (pm 150 in numbers) and their branches (pm 1450) in The Netherlands in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Netherlands_Public_Libraries

Currently still very much work in progress (hence the messy page), I've done approx. 550 out of 1600 libraries: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Netherlands_Public_Libraries/Branches

The plan is to also include all the tables in Dutch & English Wikipedia, so to significantly expand https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_bibliotheken#Nederland with Dutch public libraries

I know that User:Sic19 has done similar work for the public libraries in Wales: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sic19#SPARQL_queries


Best
Olaf Janssen
Wikipedia & open data @ KB | Nationale Bibliotheek
https://www.kb.nl/wikipedia



> Frederick Noronha, 06/04/19 12:22:
>> Dear all: Please help to build list of libraries in your part of the world.
>> Some links
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries
>> Indian Wikipedians, this could do with some love:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_India
>> This seems impressive to me (but I don't know how many are missing):
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Australia
>> And here's a listing from Nigeria
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Nigeria
>> Fredericknoronha
>
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