Just found this thread while browsing my email archives (I'm/was inactive on Wikimedia for at least 2 years)
IMHO will be very helpfull if a central place hosting metadata from digitized works will be created.
In my past experience, I've found lots of PD-old books from languages like french, spanish and english in repositories from Brazil and Portugal, with UI mostly in portuguese (ie, with very low probabilities to get found by volunteers from subdomains from those languages), for example.
I particularly loves validating metadata more than proofreading books. Perhaps a tool/place like this makes new ways to contribute to Wikisource and helps on user retention (based on some wikipedians that gets fun making good articles but loves also sometimes to simply make trivial changes on their spare time)?
I know that the thread was focused on general metadata from all kinds and ages of books, but I had this idea while reading this
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Douillard < thomas.douillard@gmail.com> wrote:
I know, I started a discussion about porting the bot to WIkidata in scientific Journal Wikiproject. One answer I got : the bot owner had other things to do in his life than running the bot and was not around very often any more. Having everiyhing in Wikidata already will be a lot more reliable and lazier, no tool that works one day but not the other one, no effort to tell the newbies that they should go to another website, no significant problem.
Maybe one opposition would be that the data would be vandalised easily, but maybe we should find a way to deal with imported sourced datas which have no real reason to be modified, just marked deprecated or updated by another import from the same source.
2013/8/26 David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com
If the problem is to automate bibliographic data importing, a solution is what you propose, to import everything. Another one is to have an import tool to automatically import the data for the item that needs it. In WP they do that, there is a tool to import book/journal info by ISBN/doi. The same can be done in WD.
Micru
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Thomas Douillard < thomas.douillard@gmail.com> wrote:
If Wikidata has an ambition to be a really reliable database, we should do eveything we can to make it easy for users to use any source they want. In this perspective, if we got datas with guaranted high quality, it make it easy for Wikidatian to find and use these references for users. Entering a reference in the database seems to me a highly fastidious, boring, and easily automated task.
With that in mind, any reference that the user will not have to enter by hand is something good, and import high quality sources datas should pass every Wikidata community barriers easily. If there is no problem for the software to handle that many information, I say we really have no reason not to do the imports.
Tom
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