I wasn't able to get to the webinar today, but I did want to follow
up on the email Federico Leva sent earlier today.
As an update on the project mentioned in that email: Librarians at Penn
are now researching status and free issue availability of periodicals
and other serials held by Penn. As a result, many of the Deep Backfile
tables linked from the discussion are being filled in considerably
more quickly than before, as you can see at
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/backfile/
(Indeed, we're currently getting information
more quickly than I can verify it and turn it into Wikidata-linked
data records, which is why you'll see numerous occurrences of "Pending"
in some of the tables while we try to catch up.)
Once information on a serial is supplied in one of the tables, it's also
automatically filled in on any other table listing the serial.
We continue to welcome outside participation, and can consider
creating tables for other sets of serials as well. If you're
interested or have questions, please feel free to get in touch.
John Mark Ockerbloom
University of Pennsylvania libraries
On 9/11/20 3:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Pete Forsyth, 11/09/20 02:12:
how to build lists (of newspapers that
need articles, and of source materials for writing articles).
Speaking of lists, there was a question on how to best store information
about the availability of (old) runs of periodicals.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Periodicals#Tables_with_information_on_periodical_copyright_and_free_issue_availability>
I'm not especially interested in creating English Wikipedia articles
about newspapers but I'd like to help improve the corresponding Wikidata
entries with archival status.
Federico
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