Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be

the recipient of $65,500 in support from the Swedish National Library for

our project Library Data.

We will work in collaboration with the Swedish

National Library to include a number of datasets onto Wikidata, such as

data about authors, libraries and different special databases of

bibliographies[1]. This is a pilot project where we aim to discuss with the

community what to include and what to exclude. Based on the discussions and

the requests from the community we will design a continuation of this

project (if this first part is deemed successful continuous funding is

possible for 3-4 more years).

We started investigating a possible long term

partnership with the National Library in 2017 when Wikimedia Sverige

delivered inputs to the new National Strategy for the Library Sector on how

Sweden's libraries can work with Wikimedia for mutual benefits.[2] The

National Library has just made history as the world's first national

library to fully transition to Linked Open Data (BIBFRAME 2.0),[3] so the

timing could not have been better; we are now in position to examine how

this move can benefit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.

Please contact

the project manager André Costa (andre.costa@wikimedia.se) or the developer Alicia Fagerving

(alicia.fagerving@wikimedia.se) if you have

any questions.

As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in

Swedish):

* https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan

[1] <https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp>

[2] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf>

(in Swedish)

[3] <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975>

Kind regards,

~*~

Alicia Fagerving

Developer

Wikimedia Sverige (WMSE)

e-mail: alicia.fagerving@wikimedia.se

phone: +46 73 950 09 56