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_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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