I agree with Andy's comment on the blog post that it doesn't really make sense for VIAF to store all the Wikipedia links to a given topic - that's what Wikidata is already really good at. So I assume that it would be best for VIAF to only link to the corresponding Wikidata item, from where all relevant pages across Wikimedia projects and languages can be reached. d. On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Luiz Augusto <lugusto(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 29 March 2015 at 02:06, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Thanks or copying me in, Daniel. I've now subscrribed to the list - hello everyone! 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 Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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,_1785-1… . (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(a)gmail.com> wrote: