Moreover:

yes, it seems that right now VIAF takes its Wikipedia links from Wikidata.

ex. http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:8080/viaf/14356/#Manzoni,_Alessandro,_1785-1873.

(see #About)

But this is a "Person" page.

We know that in Wikidata we have tons of VIAF ids for persons.

What about "Books"?

How many Wikisource books are linked to Wikidata?

I'm curious to see how many Wikisources have worked in Wikidata in the last 2 years.

I know for sure that the Italian Wikisource got stuck in some theoretical discussion,

as it is not easy *at all* to use Wikidata with different "levels" of abstractions for books.

To cope with these kinds of issues, in the weekend of 11-12 april Wikimedia Italia will host a "bibbliohackathon" in Florence with several librarians from Italy, and hopefully we will come up with a *working model* for books in Wikidata.

The event has two main aims: ask librarians help to cope with Wikidata issues, and teach them how powerful Wikidata (and Wikibase) is.

If someone is interested to participate online, we can organize an hackpad and some Hangouts.

Aubrey

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>> I'm not particularly surprised on this, since the Wikimedia Foundation never
>> does nothing to help "sister" projects

What does this have to do with WMF? OCLC are independent actors,
reusing Wikidata content as anyone may do, without having to consult
or involve the WMF.

Andy is right, and we have some personal contacts at OCLC.
We can easily talk to them, if we want.

Aubrey

PS: Welcome, Andy.