Congratulations, Wikimedia Sverige!

McKensie
Director, Art+Feminism

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Mardetanha <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This is a wonderful news, congratulations to Wikimedia Sverige
> Mardetanha
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 6:18 PM John Andersson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> *Hi everybody and sorry for crossposting,Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be
>> the recipient of $65,500 in support from the Swedish National Library for
>> our project Library Data.We will work in collaboration with the Swedish
>> National Library to include a number of datasets onto Wikidata, such as
>> data about authors, libraries and different special databases of
>> bibliographies[1]. This is a pilot project where we aim to discuss with
>> the
>> community what to include and what to exclude. Based on the discussions
>> and
>> the requests from the community we will design a continuation of this
>> project (if this first part is deemed successful continuous funding is
>> possible for 3-4 more years).We started investigating a possible long term
>> partnership with the National Library in 2017 when Wikimedia Sverige
>> delivered inputs to the new National Strategy for the Library Sector on
>> how
>> Sweden's libraries can work with Wikimedia for mutual benefits.[2] The
>> National Library has just made history as the world's first national
>> library to fully transition to Linked Open Data (BIBFRAME 2.0),[3] so the
>> timing could not have been better; we are now in position to examine how
>> this move can benefit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.Please contact
>> the project manager André Costa ([email protected]
>> <[email protected]>) or the developer Alicia Fagerving
>> ([email protected] <[email protected]>) if you
>> have
>> any questions. As always, you can find the full application on our wiki
>> (in
>> Swedish):
>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
>> inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Ansökan
>> <https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
>> inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan>[1]
>> https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp <https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp>
>> [2]
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_
>> Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
>> Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf>
>> (in Swedish)[3]
>> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
>> pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
>> fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>> <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
>> pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
>> fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975>
>> *
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> John
>> - - - -
>> John Andersson
>> Executive Director
>> Wikimedia Sverige
>>
>> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>> Email: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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