Hoi,
Next week an API will become
available at Open Library that provides their available books for an
author based on their identifier. This will allow us (if they want it)
to provide these books through {{authority control}} on the English
Wikipedia and others when they care to have this.
What I
have asked the OL is to provide their identifier per author, combined
with the ISBN for an author. When the OCLC or anyone else runs a
process to identify the associated VIAF (maybe later the Wikidata)
identifiers we have made a next step.
What I have also
asked the Open Library is if they can provide us with names in the local
language of the publications. This allows us to ask people who know the
language using Mix'n Match to identify the authors and maybe add
Wikidata items. When we then iterate this process with the OCLC (or
whoever) to add the VIAF identifiers, we slowly but surely provide a
better service to all the readers of the world.
I do care
that people read and make the best possible use of the services of the
Open Library, all the libraries in the world or our projects. Our aim is
to share in the sum of all knowledge. Making this possible with
Wikidata makes me proud to be involved in Wikidata.