Thanks Olaf! This kind of Wikidata data collection is actually a huge part of the conversation behind The Finding GLAMs initiative led by Wikimedia Sweden. If you want to contribute, learn more on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs Cheers, Alex On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:17 AM Olaf Janssen <Olaf.Janssen(a)kb.nl> wrote: -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

Hi, all. 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: https://coffeecode.net/creating-and-editing-libraries-in-wikidata.html and you can see our meet-up page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/olasuperconference Wikipedia:Meetup/olasuperconference - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/olasuperconfere… 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. en.wikipedia.org 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 &lt;libraries-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; on behalf of Merrilee Proffitt &lt;mproffitt(a)gmail.com&gt; 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<mailto: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_Libra… 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_Libra… 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 _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries