Hi Andrea,
in 2009, I created a mapping from "STW Thesaurus for Economics" to Dbpedia. The
links on the RDFa pages and the download dataset are still present and minimally adjusted
to new versions on
http://zbw.eu/stw. The approach, as described in
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-538/ldow2009_paper7.pdf, is outdated now - particularly because it
could not use the Wikidata inter-language links.
I wonder if somebody has described a mapping process for a multilingual thesaurus to
Wikipedia/Wikidata/DBpedia using today's facilities. Or if perhaps some code for this
is already available somewhere.
Cheers, Joachim
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ID.LOC.GOV] Fwd: [libraries] Collaborations with National Libraries over
thesauri and authority control
Of possible interest...
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From: Andrea Zanni
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Subject: [libraries] Collaborations with National Libraries over thesauri and authority
control
Date: January 21, 2014 at 9:34:56 AM EST
To: "Wikimedia & Libraries"
<libraries@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:libraries@lists.wikimedia.org>>, Mathias
Schindler
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Mathis <remi.mathis@wikimedia.fr<mailto:remi.mathis@wikimedia.fr>>, Liam Wyatt
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Hi all,
I hope you are well.
I would like to ask you if you are aware of any project concerning the collaboration of a
National Library with Wikipedia, regarding things as theasuri and authority control.
Last summer,
the National Library of Florence (BNCF) approached Wikimedia Italia for a project of
synchronization of the Italian thesaurus (thesaurus del Nuovo Soggettario [1]) with
Wikipedia.
They thesaurus linked to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia didn't link back.
We asked the community and then synchronized the links between the Italian Wikipedia and
the BNCF Thesaurus (now around 8'000).
The links were later uploaded within a property in Wikidata (see property:P508[2]), and
are now recalled automatically by Template:Thesaurus BNCF[3] on it.wikipedia.
Right now, the BNCF would be eager to know if other theasuri had the same idea, as for the
multilingual nature of Wikidata it would be "easy" to link thesauri in different
languages, per Wikidata.
It is the very same idea that animated the VIAF project: right now, Wikidata contains
several identifiers for people and books, being a "super-authority control" (as
Max called it :-).
Using Wikidata as a bridge/cross walk would be very important and fairly
"cheap": synchronizing 2 different thesauri isn't normally a easy job, but
Wikipedias have already done the difficult part.
The BNCF team has been working in the past years to connect other subject authority
control lists. At the time being, 4000 tems in Italian thesaurus link to their equivalent
LCSH term, and the LSCH linked back in the last weeks, via SKOS/RDF.
The BNCF is doing the same with the French authority control RAMEU [4], from BNF, and the
European community one EUROVOC [5].
So, the question is:
are you aware of any project like this? Does your library mantain a thesaurus and aiming
to put that on Wikipedia/Wikidata?
Aubrey
[1]
http://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ricerca.php
[2]
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P508<http://www.google.com/url?q=h…
[3]
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Thesaurus_BNCF
[4]
http://data.bnf.fr/
[5]
http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
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