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The ISSN International Center, which maintains the ISSN Register (the most complete reference source for the identification of serial publications) at http://portal.issn.org wishes to contribute a subset of its bibliographic database to Wikidata.

This consists of (approximately) 1.100.000 serial publications notices (only current/not discontinued publications), with 10% having 2 or more ISSNs (typically, paper and electronic version). Currently, Wikidata contains approximately 94000 ISSN values.

Each serial notice is described with metadata from the set of metadata already freely available from the ISSN Portal :

ISSN identifier
ISSN-L identifier (the ISSN-L identifies the serial publication independantly of its medium, while distinct ISSNs are assigned to each medium)
Proper (original) title of the serial
Key (unambiguous) title of the serial
Country of publication
Distribution format (of a given ISSN)
URL (for online publications)
Language of the serial

(Note that the publisher is not part of the free data).

More information can be read in this presentation.

Preliminary analysis has been conducted and a data model proposal to capture this set of metadata has been submitted at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Periodicals#Data_donation_from_ISSN_Register_-_Feedback_welcome (Wikidata Periodicals and Wiki Source Projects have been notified)

Feedback on this is welcome until 4th of december (although not a formal deadline), either here or on wiki at the link above.

We also welcome general advice on how to proceed with an ingest of this size (the plan is currently to use OpenRefine to reconcile and import).

Best Regards

Thomas

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