As a point of potential interest on this topic. Dan Scott, Monica Fazekas, and I gave a session at the Ontario Library Association conference last year about getting library organization data into the Wikimedia projects.

Read Dan Scott's write up on adding library organizational info to Wikidata here:

and you can see our meet-up page here:

As trusted knowledge mediators, libraries have a responsibility to help improve the presence of Canadian culture on Wikimedia platforms. In this edit-a-thon, participants will ensure their own libraries are represented on Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia, and be better prepared to lead edit-a-thons in their own communities.

Stacy Allison-Cassin, MMus, MISt, PhD Cand.

Associate Librarian

York University Libraries

York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.

From: Libraries <libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Merrilee Proffitt <mproffitt@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 8:35 AM
To: Wikimedia & Libraries
Subject: Re: [libraries] Libraries Digest, Vol 82, Issue 3

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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