<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello everyone. <br><br></div>For Italian libraries, you can find a good csv here:<br><a href="http://opendata.anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/territorio.zip">http://opendata.anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/territorio.zip</a><br><br></div>Cristian Consonni also had a project of importing all of them on OpenStreetMap:<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RCantoroBot/Anagrafe_delle_biblioteche_italiane/Import_plan">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RCantoroBot/Anagrafe_delle_biblioteche_italiane/Import_plan</a><br></div>(I think the project is frozen though).<br><br></div>In Italy we are working a lot with libraries and librarians, but I think it needs a cultural (so, looong) approach:<br></div>we are doing workshops, editathons, lectues on Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata too. <br><br></div>They are very interested in Wikidata, but it scares them a little (RDF, linked open data, knowledge base are scary words for most people). <br><br></div>I very much like the "gaming" approach of Magnus's tools, as it can be a bridge in teaching librarians how to cope with wikidata with things they understand better. For example, here's the Mix 'n' match tool for reconciling authors from the National Authority Control and Wikidata:<br><a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=random&catalog=58&submode=unmatched#">http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=random&catalog=58&submode=unmatched#</a><br><br></div>We are collaborating directly with the National Library of Florence, too. <br><br>Finally, in Google Summer of Code 2014 Amanpreet Singh worked on a project for annotating books and get the annotate "statement" directly on Wikidata:<br><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_report">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_report</a><br></div><div>The idea is that you could read the web, than find a "fact", and then highlight it and get a statement that gets feeded on Wikidata. <br></div><div><br>Unfortunately, I think that project has been abandoned too (but it seems that the code works). <br><br></div><div>IMHO, that would be very useful for librarians and not: as you read you can populate Wikidata. <br><br></div><div>Aubrey<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:proffitm@oclc.org" target="_blank">proffitm@oclc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Imagine my delight that you are creating a list of all the libraries in the world! However this does present a bit of an issue – are all libraries notable? The
American Library Association estimates that there are around 120,000 libraries but doesn’t have an exact number because there is not a survey that covers all of them. Since librarians are discouraged from creating articles about their own institutions, this
could be problematic? If this is an initiative that has broad approval I’m happy to help in any way that I can!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, 000 facts added a year ?<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries so they can provide info about all the libraries for each country?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <<a href="mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com" target="_blank">thadguidry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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