Hi Giselle,

You can read more about the project in English here:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Background

Best,

John


Den mån 27 aug. 2018 18:24Wikimedia Argentina <comunicacion@wikimedia.org.ar>
skrev:

> Congrats! Open data is the present and future of cultural projects :)
> I would love to read more about the project. This is the only link in
> english that I found [1]
> Have you got something else John?
>
>
> Best,
> Giselle
>
> [1]
> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>
> Giselle Bordoy
> Responsable de Comunicación y Cultura
> Communications and Cultural Manager
> *A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*

>
> 2018-08-27 11:08 GMT-03:00 Alex Stinson <astinson@wikimedia.org>:
>
>> Congratulations John! Library data is such a powerful first step for
>> engaging partners, and we definitely need more case studies on this!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:48 AM, John Andersson <
>> john.andersson@wikimedia.se> wrote:
>>
>>> *Hi everybody and sorry for crossposting,Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be
>>> the recipient of $65,500 in support from the Swedish National Library for
>>> our project Library Data.We will work in collaboration with the Swedish
>>> National Library to include a number of datasets onto Wikidata, such as
>>> data about authors, libraries and different special databases of
>>> bibliographies[1]. This is a pilot project where we aim to discuss with
>>> the
>>> community what to include and what to exclude. Based on the discussions
>>> and
>>> the requests from the community we will design a continuation of this
>>> project (if this first part is deemed successful continuous funding is
>>> possible for 3-4 more years).We started investigating a possible long
>>> term
>>> partnership with the National Library in 2017 when Wikimedia Sverige
>>> delivered inputs to the new National Strategy for the Library Sector on
>>> how
>>> Sweden's libraries can work with Wikimedia for mutual benefits.[2] The
>>> National Library has just made history as the world's first national
>>> library to fully transition to Linked Open Data (BIBFRAME 2.0),[3] so the
>>> timing could not have been better; we are now in position to examine how
>>> this move can benefit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.Please
>>> contact
>>> the project manager André Costa (andre.costa@wikimedia.se
>>> <andre.costa@wikimedia.se>) or the developer Alicia Fagerving
>>> (alicia.fagerving@wikimedia.se <alicia.fagerving@wikimedia.se>) if you
>>> have
>>> any questions. As always, you can find the full application on our wiki
>>> (in
>>> Swedish):
>>>
>>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Ansökan
>>> <
>>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan
>>> >[1]
>>> https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp <https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp
>>> >
>>> [2]
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
>>> <
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
>>> >
>>> (in Swedish)[3]
>>>
>>> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>>> <
>>> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>>> >
>>> *
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> John
>>> - - - -
>>> John Andersson
>>> Executive Director
>>> Wikimedia Sverige
>>>
>>> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
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>>
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