Hello
The ISSN International Center, which maintains the ISSN Register (*the most
complete reference source for the identification of serial publications*)
at
http://portal.issn.org wishes to *contribute a subset of its
bibliographic database to Wikidata*.
This consists of (approximately) *1.100.000 serial publications notices*
(only current/not discontinued publications), with 10% having 2 or more
ISSNs (typically, paper and electronic version). Currently, Wikidata
contains approximately 94000 ISSN values.
Each serial notice is described with metadata from the set of metadata
already freely available from the ISSN Portal :
- ISSN identifier
- ISSN-L identifier (the ISSN-L identifies the serial publication
independantly of its medium, while distinct ISSNs are assigned to each
medium)
- Proper (original) title of the serial
- Key (unambiguous) title of the serial
- Country of publication
- Distribution format (of a given ISSN)
- URL (for online publications)
- Language of the serial
*(Note that the publisher is not part of the free data).*
More information can be read in this presentation.
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vJrfj3zOKTw-29QYp2RyBxkJUlHVk_VKWznhsoZE9FA/edit#slide=id.p1>
Preliminary analysis has been conducted and a data model proposal to
capture this set of metadata has been submitted at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Periodicals#Data_do…
(Wikidata Periodicals and Wiki Source Projects have been notified)
Feedback on this is welcome until 4th of december (although not a formal
deadline), either here or on wiki at the link above.
We also welcome general advice on how to proceed with an ingest of this
size (the plan is currently to use OpenRefine to reconcile and import).
Best Regards
Thomas
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