Hello, I would like to present a digital library catalogue built for Wikisource named Sangkalak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123617697> (in Bangla সংকলক), which you can find here - https://sangkalak.toolforge.org . This tool was primarily built for Bangla Wikisource back in 2023 as a Wikidata's birthday gift <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Presents> and is widely used in that project since then. It was previously presented at the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikisource_and_Wikidata:_when_two_cool_kids_play_together!> and Wikisource Conference 2025 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025/Submissions/Wikidata_and_Bangla_Wikisource:_When_two_cool_kids_play_together!>. After a presentation at the recent Wikidata and sister projects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects> online event, it was decided to make this tool available for other languages Wikisource as well and hence it can be used by any language Wikisource communities from now on, if they wish. However, as it was primarily built for the Bangla community, the default interface language shall be Bangla.
Using this tool, you can search the books from Wikisource combining 5 parameters like title, author, translator, editor and publisher and 4 functions i.e. contains, exact match, starts with and ends with along with and/or operators. You can query as many times as possible using these parameters, functions and operators by simply adding new lines. After querying for results, you can sub-filter the results again for authors, translators, editors, publishers, places of publication, dates of publication, forms, genres and main subjects at the left sidebar. The tool provides the option to get permanent links, so that you can use them on Wikisource and elsewhere. The tool can be accessed from mobile also. The tool is dependent on Wikidata based query and strictly follows the FRBR data model described at Wikidata:Books <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books>. So, if any Wikisource community is correctly storing the descriptive metadata on Wikidata following this page, their books can be searched in this catalogue. Please note that, if the data model is not followed properly on Wikidata, the books may not come in results, for which you can resolve constraint violations in those relevant items, as necessary. The tool only queries for those items which use P1957 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957>. If any item has a sitelink to Wikisource, the tool links to the corresponding Wikisource main namespace and gives options to export the books with PDF, Mobi and Epub formats using the WS-export tool. If the sitelinks have proofread and validated badges, it displays them. If the item does not have a sitelink to Wikisource, it links to the index namespaces. The tool also displays QR codes for mobile users. Support for OPDS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_Distribution_System> is underway. The interface languages of the tool are currently Bangla and English. However, if you want this tool to be available in your language, you can translate the strings in the json file attached below, save it and send it back to us, so that we can include them in the code. I would like to specially thank Mahir Morshed who has been developing this tool in his volunteer capacity. Regards, Bodhisattwa
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