Dear list and GLAM-Wiki professionals and enthusiasts in particular,
The Luxembourg Competency Network on Digital Cultural Heritage is
developing a Shared Authority File, to combine the knowledge from national
heritage institutions and to increase the impact of the member
institutions' digitised collections.
The Shared Authority File uses Wikibase as its main data store and internal
user interface, and has created an extension that might be of relevance to
the broader GLAM sector: A datatype for Extended Date Time Format compliant
statements.
Wikibase contains a datetime representation based on ISO 8601:2004
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601>. The project extended the Wikibase
software through an Extended Data Time Format extension, which includes ISO
8601:2019 <https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:8601:-1:ed-1:v1:en>, and
their extensions in a new datatype which can then be utilized within a
Wikibase instance.
This resulted in two open source products. A library
<https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/EDTF> for the validation and
humanisation of EDTF dates in PHP, and an extension
<https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/WikibaseEdtf> to WikiBase to use this
library. Both are available as open source software for all to use and
improve. The humanisation is translated in various languages using
Translate.wiki <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/FAQ>.
With this email I’m asking support for the inclusion of this work into the
fall release of the Wikibase Docker bundle. You can voice your support
through this ticket: Include the EDTF Datatype extension in the Fall 2021
Wikibase Docker release <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280656>
This would allow other GLAM initiatives using Wikibase to easily make use
of the EDTF standard within their own Wikibase deployments.
Feedback and contributions to the repositories for this extension as a
stand alone product are also welcomed!
Thanks for your attention and best wishes,
Maarten Brinkerink
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