On 11/2/16 11:19 AM, Alex Stinson wrote:
The other opportunity, in my mind, is to do a seperate identifier and authority control campaign at some other point -- that relies heavily on Mix-n-match and the Distributed Game and could call on collaboration across all GLAMs. Building awareness that we are doing Authority Control Synchronization and how Wikidata adds value to using Authority controls, could open up a lot of conversations with these wider professional communities.
I'm glad to hear this! Name authority's been in Wikidata for a while, and I'm starting to see a small amount of subject authority data as well. I'd be interested in helping get a robust subject authority data set in Wikidata. I'm already maintaining my own correspondences between LC subjects and English Wikipedia articles for the Forward to Libraries service (for routing people from Wikipedia articles to subject and author searches in various libraries, and vice versa). But it would scale better if it were in a system like Wikidata that allowed multiple people to maintain it.
It looks like there might need to be a more robust data model for authority mappings in Wikidata for this to work really well for topical identifiers (as opposed to name identifiers). Is there a good place or forum to discuss appropriate extensions to Wikidata's model? (In particular, I'm interested in topical subdivisions and inexact mappings, which are dealt with in Forward to Libraries's data model but not particularly robustly as far as I can tell in Wikidata's model.)
Thanks,
John Mark Ockerbloom