Hi Mek,
One simple first step would be to write a bot that would add the "full
work available at (P953)" property to items with OL ids when the full
text can be downloaded from OL.
This could potentially be part of a Wikidata version of the OAbot.
Is there any API endpoint which, given an OL id, tells if you have a
free to read full text?
Best,
Antonin
On 10/03/2017 23:45, Michael Karpeles wrote:
Hi friends,
I was just speaking to Asaf @ WMF about the road to pairing Wikipedia
book articles to copies which are freely available and readable through
the Internet Archive's Open Library.
Open Library has ~16M works and ~25M editions, about 1.8M of these
editions are readable without any login. An additional several hundred
thousand modern works are borrowable with an
archive.org
<http://archive.org> account.
I recognize that there are already tens of thousands of books on
Wikidata (maybe more, now!) which have Open Library IDs (olids) -- e.g.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P648. Asaf and I wondered whether
a good first step might be to see how many of the readable works Open
Library has are already on Wikidata.
TL;DR -- The Open Library team would love to help empower more wikipedia
and wikidata users to access readable copies of books related to the
content they're viewing. And we'd love to explore donating metadata to
help improve the quality of Wikidata. What are the community's feelings
on this, what existing efforts may exist (or have existed) which I
should be aware of, and how do you recommend we proceed in a way which
respects the community's policies and goals?
best wishes,
- mek
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