Hi Emilio, Merrilee, Markus and Wikidatans, Great. I'm curious what further approaches you might be taking to aggregating online libraries - first by languages.
Emilio, concerning your reply to Merrilee: "Yes, you pointed two important issues. What I propose is creating lists (not stubs for all libraries, by now). So in lists you have more freedom to add stuff that may or not be a notable article. It is the same with monuments lists in Wiki Loves Monuments." CC World University's approach is to wiki-aggregate great online libraries in each of CC Wikipedia/Wikidata's 288 languages (and eventually in all 7,929+ languages, if there are online libraries in each of all languages) and eventually hire interns to do this somewhat systematically. "Library Resources" are one of the main ~10 foci/areas for inter-lingual WUaS (see: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/impatiens-species-structuring-world.html) beginning with this "Library Resources" wiki-school - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources - which is also a kind of template for each language's libraries, and which is extensible. And concerning your other reply to Merrilee: "I'm not really sure if librarians are discouraged to create stubs about their institutions. We can ask the community anyway. Being most libraries non-profit and educational resources, I think that it is a special case." Each library would become a reference and a link to their databases, informed first by the extensible 288 languages in Wikipedia/Wikidata. Lastly, concerning: "But again, first we need some help to complete the lists. I doubt there is any problem with having librarians of a country expanding a list of libraries in their country." WUaS would like to explore contributing the above ~ 10 main foci/areas to Wikidata, especially the Languages-Libraries as Schools open data structure (see the blog post about this), and also needs some help with developing this contribution to Wikidata. Cheers, Scott On Jul 4, 2015 5:20 AM, "Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada" <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-06-30 19:30 GMT+02:00 Proffitt,Merrilee <proff...@oclc.org>: > >> Hi there, >> >> >> >> Imagine my delight that you are creating a list of all the libraries in >> the world! However this does present a bit of an issue – are all libraries >> notable? The American Library Association estimates that there are around >> 120,000 libraries but doesn’t have an exact number because there is not a >> survey that covers all of them. >> > > Yes, you pointed two important issues. What I propose is creating lists > (not stubs for all libraries, by now). So in lists you have more freedom to > add stuff that may or not be a notable article. It is the same with > monuments lists in Wiki Loves Monuments. > > >> Since librarians are discouraged from creating articles about their own >> institutions, this could be problematic? If this is an initiative that has >> broad approval I’m happy to help in any way that I can! >> > > I'm not really sure if librarians are discouraged to create stubs about > their institutions. We can ask the community anyway. Being most libraries > non-profit and educational resources, I think that it is a special case. > > But again, first we need some help to complete the lists. I doubt there is > any problem with having librarians of a country expanding a list of > libraries in their country. > > >> >> >> http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet01 >> >> >> >> Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer >> OCLC Research >> >> >> >> *From:* libraries-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: >> libraries-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Emilio J. >> Rodríguez-Posada >> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2015 1:41 AM >> *To:* Discussion list for the Wikidata project.; Wikimedia & Libraries >> *Subject:* Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, >> 000 facts added a year ? >> >> >> >> 2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emi...@gmail.com>: >> >> 2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea <lucian.ve...@lexica.ro>: >> >> Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries / >> librarians by country? >> >> >> >> I compiled some numbers here >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries >> >> And started a list of lists that needs to be completed >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country >> >> >> >> Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries >> so they can provide info about all the libraries for each country? >> >> I have been working in Lists of museums/archives/libraries by country >> long time, but I only find partial lists and the work is slow. How can we >> make these institutions get involved? >> >> >> >> >> All the best, >> Lucian >> >> >> >> On 23.06.2015 9:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> >> Hoi, >> >> That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world >> out there !! >> >> Thanks, >> >> GerardM >> >> >> >> On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it per >> work day in their spare 2 mins a day. >> >> >> >> >> >> 119,729 Libraries in USA >> >> x >> >> 1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-) >> >> x >> >> 251 work days in a year >> >> = >> >> 30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified >> >> >> >> Get the word out, >> >> Thad >> >> +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikidata mailing list >> >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> librar...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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