On 11/2/16 11:19 AM, Alex Stinson wrote:
The other opportunity, in my mind, is to do a seperate
identifier and
authority control campaign at some other point -- that relies heavily on
Mix-n-match and the Distributed Game and could call on collaboration
across all GLAMs. Building awareness that we are doing Authority Control
Synchronization and how Wikidata adds value to using Authority controls,
could open up a lot of conversations with these wider professional
communities.
I'm glad to hear this! Name authority's been in Wikidata for a while,
and I'm starting to see a small amount of subject authority data as
well. I'd be interested in helping get a robust subject authority
data set in Wikidata. I'm already maintaining my own correspondences
between LC subjects and English Wikipedia articles for the Forward to
Libraries service (for routing people from Wikipedia articles to
subject and author searches in various libraries, and vice versa).
But it would scale better if it were in a system like Wikidata that
allowed multiple people to maintain it.
It looks like there might need to be a more robust data model for
authority mappings in Wikidata for this to work really well for topical
identifiers (as opposed to name identifiers). Is there a good place
or forum to discuss appropriate extensions to Wikidata's model? (In
particular, I'm interested in topical subdivisions and inexact
mappings, which are dealt with in Forward to Libraries's data model
but not particularly robustly as far as I can tell in Wikidata's model.)
Thanks,
John Mark Ockerbloom