That is a wonderful news. Congrats to Wikimedia Sverige. Hopefully the
project will be a great success.
Md. Ibrahim Husain
User:Ibrahim Husain Meraj
Member, Wikimedia Bangladesh
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:26 AM Wikimedia Argentina <
comunicacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar> wrote:
Thanks John!
Giselle Bordoy
Responsable de Comunicación y Cultura
Communications and Cultural Manager
*A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*
2018-08-29 16:23 GMT-03:00 John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se>se>:
Hi Giselle,
You can read more about the project in English here:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Background
Best,
John
Den mån 27 aug. 2018 18:24Wikimedia Argentina <
comunicacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
skrev:
Congrats! Open data is the present and future of
cultural projects :)
I would love to read more about the project. This is the only link in
english that I found [1]
Have you got something else John?
Best,
Giselle
[1]
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>
> Giselle Bordoy
> Responsable de Comunicación y Cultura
> Communications and Cultural Manager
> *A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*
>
> 2018-08-27 11:08 GMT-03:00 Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
>
>> Congratulations John! Library data is such a powerful first step for
>> engaging partners, and we definitely need more case studies on this!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:48 AM, John Andersson <
>> john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
>>
>>> *Hi everybody and sorry for crossposting,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(a)wikimedia.se
>>> <andre.costa(a)wikimedia.se>) or the developer Alicia Fagerving
>>> (alicia.fagerving(a)wikimedia.se <alicia.fagerving(a)wikimedia.se>) if
you
>>> have
>>> any questions. As always, you can find the full application on our
wiki
inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Ansökan
inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan
deldatabas.jsp
Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>>> >
>>> *
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> John
>>> - - - -
>>> John Andersson
>>> Executive Director
>>> Wikimedia Sverige
>>>
>>> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>>> Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se <JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com>
>>> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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