On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 19:05, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> How can we create useful collections from these online materials?

The Wikimedia ecosystem gives us a number of tools that can be used
for this, including

* Wikisource, where works can be transcribed, and categorised

* Wikidata where the metadata can be stored, checked and improved; and
where we can document related identities such as publishers, and
authors

* Wikipedia, where we can write list articles, or have them populated
by Wikidata queries; not to mention articles about authors

Wikidata can also be used to populate external tools like Scholia.

Then we have a number of tools on the toolserver, which allow us to
crowdsource things like identifier matches, main sujects, and links to
authors, and add them to Wikidata

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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