Hi emijrp,

I will have to investigate the licensing computability. Looking at the wikidata site on meta, it only mentions that " The content in Wikidata will be made available under a free license." [1] Are there any more decisions so far on this topic or will any CC license do?

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Requirements

Best,

Max Klein Wikipedia in Residence kleinm@oclc.org +17074787023

Hi Max;

Is WorldCat aware of the Wikidata free license?

I think that it is a good idea to include that info in Wikidata, that and the DOI metadata, which is currently generated like this[1] (only available in English Wikipedia).

Regards, emijrp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cite_doi_templates

2012/5/25 Klein,Max kleinm@oclc.org

Hello Wikidata Wizards,****

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Phoebe Ayers from the Board recommended I talk to you. My name is Max Klein and I am the Wikipedian in Residence for OCLC. OCLC owns

Worldcat.org

the world?s largest holder of Library data at 264 million

bibliographic

records about books, journals and other library items. We would really

like

to partner with you as Wikidata is being built, in incorporating our

data

into your project.****

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*What we can offer:*

**? **WorldCat.org metadata http://www.worldcat.org/ . ****

**o **Typically, for any work we have most of the following: title, authors, publisher, formats, summaries, editions, subjects, languages, intended audience, all associated ISBNs, length, and abstract.****

**? **APIs to this data http://oclc.org/developer/****

**o **And some other cool APIs like xISBN which returns all the

ISBNs

of all the editions of book on the input of any single one.****

**? **Library finding tools****

**o **When viewing a record on our site, we show you the closest library which has that work, and links to reserve it for pick-up.****

**? **The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) http://viaf.org/, which is an Authoritative Disambiguation file****

**o **That means that we have certified data on disambiguation of Authors****

**? **WorldCat Identities, an Analytics site http://www.worldcat.org/identities/****

**o **It gives you for Author metadata and analytics: Alternative names, significant dates, publication timelines, genres, roles,

related

authors, and tag clouds of associated subjects.****

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*What?s in it for us:*

**? **We are a not-for-profit member cooperative. Our mission

is

?Connecting people to knowledge through library cooperation.?****

**? **Since I work at the research group, for now this is just

a

research project.****

**o **If at some point this goes live - and you want to - we?d like

to

integrate the ?find it at a library near me? feature, that means click-throughs for us.****

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*The ideas:*

There are a lot of possibilities, and I?d like to hear your input.

These

are the first few that I?ve can come up with.****

**? **Making infoboxes for each book or author that contains

all

their metadata.****

**o **Ready to incorporate into all language projects.****

**? **Using authority files to disambiguate or link works to their creators.****

**o **Solving DABs****

**? **Using our analytics (e.g. author timelines) as Wikidata data types to transclude.****

**o **Curating articles with easy to include dynamic analytics****

**? **Populating or creating works/author pages with their algorithmically-derived history and details.****

**o **Extremely experimental semantic work.****

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I?m roaring and ready to get this collaboration going. I know Wikidata

is

at an early stage, and we are willing to accommodate you.****

Send me any feedback or ideas,****

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Max Klein****

Wikipedia in Residence****

kleinm@oclc.org****

+17074787023****

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