This is excellent news! Congratulations, and best of luck to your project!

I think this will really help establish the role of library data within
Wikidata, already well grounded by the work of WikiCite, Inventaire.io,
various vocabulary and authority file mappings on Mix'n'Match and many
other projects.

I look forward to following your progress and I would very much like to
do something similar with Finnish bibliographic data :)

-Osma

Alicia Fagerving kirjoitti 27.08.2018 klo 17:17:
> 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
> <mailto:andre.costa@wikimedia.se>) or the developer Alicia Fagerving
> (alicia.fagerving@wikimedia.se <mailto: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 <mailto:alicia.fagerving@wikimedia.se>
> phone: +46 73 950 09 56
>
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D.Sc. (Tech), Information Systems Specialist
National Library of Finland
P.O. Box 26 (Kaikukatu 4)
00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Tel. +358 50 3199529
osma.suominen@helsinki.fi
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