Hello everyone.

For Italian libraries, you can find a good csv here:
http://opendata.anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/territorio.zip

Cristian Consonni also had a project of importing all of them on OpenStreetMap:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RCantoroBot/Anagrafe_delle_biblioteche_italiane/Import_plan

(I think the project is frozen though).

In Italy we are working a lot with libraries and librarians, but I think it needs a cultural (so, looong) approach:

we are doing workshops, editathons, lectues on Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata too.

They are very interested in Wikidata, but it scares them a little (RDF, linked open data, knowledge base are scary words for most people).

I very much like the "gaming" approach of Magnus's tools, as it can be a bridge in teaching librarians how to cope with wikidata with things they understand better. For example, here's the Mix 'n' match tool for reconciling authors from the National Authority Control and Wikidata:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=random&catalog=58&submode=unmatched#

We are collaborating directly with the National Library of Florence, too.

Finally, in Google Summer of Code 2014 Amanpreet Singh worked on a project for annotating books and get the annotate "statement" directly on Wikidata:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_report

The idea is that you could read the web, than find a "fact", and then highlight it and get a statement that gets feeded on Wikidata.

Unfortunately, I think that project has been abandoned too (but it seems that the code works).

IMHO, that would be very useful for librarians and not: as you read you can populate Wikidata.

Aubrey

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm@oclc.org> wrote:

Hi there,

 

Imagine my delight that you are creating a list of all the libraries in the world! However this does present a bit of an issue – are all libraries notable? The American Library Association estimates that there are around 120,000 libraries but doesn’t have an exact number because there is not a survey that covers all of them. Since librarians are discouraged from creating articles about their own institutions, this could be problematic? If this is an initiative that has broad approval I’m happy to help in any way that I can!

 

http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet01

 

Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research

 

From: libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 1:41 AM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.; Wikimedia & Libraries
Subject: Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, 000 facts added a year ?

 

2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp@gmail.com>:

2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea <lucian.velea@lexica.ro>:

Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries / librarians by country?

 

I compiled some numbers here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries

And started a list of lists that needs to be completed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country
 

Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries so they can provide info about all the libraries for each country?

I have been working in Lists of museums/archives/libraries by country long time, but I only find partial lists and the work is slow. How can we make these institutions get involved?

 

All the best,
Lucian

On 23.06.2015 9:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

Hoi,

That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world out there !!

Thanks,

      GerardM

 

On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:

If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it per work day in their spare 2 mins a day.

 

 

119,729 Libraries in USA

x

1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-)

x

251 work days in a year

=

30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified

 

Get the word out,

Thad

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