Wow, thanks for this, Olaf - great work! Hopefully we will get the bibliographic data for those libraries into Wikidata one day too (or into some other bibliographic database). Getting more people into libraries starts with awareness of local institutions of course.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 2:17 PM 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_Librar...
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_Librar...
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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