Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, There are several projects that want to achieve similar aims. Wikiauthors, Wikicat are two of them. The initial approach of these two is different; one starts of with scientific publications and wants to start with disambiguation of authors the other wants to start with bibliographic information from the position of librarians. The cool thing is, that the people representing these two approaches are talking and, that it is feasible to merge many if not all of the ideas for both projects. Both projects have people behind them to make this work, combined the result will provide us with a central bibliography that is based on Wikidata functionality.
There are two things to understand; first the database should be usable for all projects and it needs to be usable in many languages and second after having set up such a project it still needs integration in the Wikipedia and other projects.
Sure, but trial and error is also important. That's often how we find out what works and what doesn't.
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