Wonderful!

I'm especially interrested on how you will structure data about libraries
(a good opportunity to create and launch a project
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Libraries ;) ).

Cdlt, ~nicolas

Le lun. 27 août 2018 à 16:25, Alex Stinson <astin...@wikimedia.org> a
écrit :

> This is really awesome! I met some of the team working on their LOD
> software at an event at Stanford in the spring -- they seem to be doing
> really amazing and savvy work to make their library data fully compliant --
> excited to see Wikidata become a data hub for them (they weren't really
> sure if they were going to do that when I talked to them then). Glad you
> have been able to make progress!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Fariz Darari <fadi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congrats and best wishes for the project!
>>
>> -fariz
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 21:17 Alicia Fagerving <
>> alicia.fagerv...@wikimedia.se> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 (andre.co...@wikimedia.se) or the
>>> developer Alicia Fagerving
>>> (alicia.fagerv...@wikimedia.se) 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_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan
>>>
>>> [1] <https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp>
>>> [2] <
>>> 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
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> ~*~
>>> Alicia Fagerving
>>> Developer
>>> Wikimedia Sverige (WMSE)
>>>
>>> e-mail: alicia.fagerv...@wikimedia.se
>>> phone: +46 73 950 09 56
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