Lars Aronsson wrote:
Yann Forget wrote:
As I already said, the first steps would be to import existing databases, and Wikimedians are very good at this job.
Do you have a bibliographic database (library catalog) of French literature that you can upload? How many records? Convincing libraries to donate copies of their catalogs has been a bottleneck for OpenLibrary.
No, I don't have such a database. There is a copyright on databases in Europe, which makes things complicated.
Probably we need to start with libraries which are already collaborating with open content projects. There was a GLAM-wiki meeting in Australia recently: there might be a possibility with an Australian library?
But even before that, if we could extract the data from Wikimedia projects, we could create a basic working frame. I have been collecting such data on Wikisource and Wikibooks, but the lack of a structured system is a bottleneck.
Examples: 1. Comprehensive bibliography of Gandhi in French http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bibliographie_de_Gandhi
2. French translations of Russian authors: http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussion_Auteur:L%C3%A9on_Tolsto%C3%AF http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussion_Auteur:F%C3%A9dor_Mikha%C3%AFlovitc...
Regards,
Yann