Andrea, I look in wikidata and also in dbpedia, and it does not look
like dbpedia is picking up the links that are added to wikidata (BNCF,
Dewey, etc.). Since dbpedia is THE linked data hub, do you know if there
are plans to include wikidata links in dbpedia?
kc
On 1/21/14, 6:34 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
Hi all,
I hope you are well.
I would like to ask you if you are aware of any project concerning the
collaboration of a National Library with Wikipedia, regarding things as
theasuri and authority control.
Last summer,
the National Library of Florence (BNCF) approached Wikimedia Italia for
a project of synchronization of the Italian thesaurus (thesaurus del
Nuovo Soggettario [1]) with Wikipedia.
They thesaurus linked to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia didn't link back.
We asked the community and then synchronized the links between the
Italian Wikipedia and the BNCF Thesaurus (now around 8'000).
The links were later uploaded within a property in Wikidata (see
property:P508[2]), and are now recalled automatically by
Template:Thesaurus BNCF[3] on it.wikipedia.
Right now, the BNCF would be eager to know if other theasuri had the
same idea, as for the multilingual nature of Wikidata it would be "easy"
to link thesauri in different languages, per Wikidata.
It is the very same idea that animated the VIAF project: right now,
Wikidata contains several identifiers for people and books, being a
"super-authority control" (as Max called it :-).
Using Wikidata as a bridge/cross walk would be very important and fairly
"cheap": synchronizing 2 different thesauri isn't normally a easy job,
but Wikipedias have already done the difficult part.
The BNCF team has been working in the past years to connect other
subject authority control lists. At the time being, 4000 tems in Italian
thesaurus link to their equivalent LCSH term, and the LSCH linked back
in the last weeks, via SKOS/RDF.
The BNCF is doing the same with the French authority control RAMEU [4],
from BNF, and the European community one EUROVOC [5].
So, the question is:
are you aware of any project like this? Does your library mantain a
thesaurus and aiming to put that on Wikipedia/Wikidata?
Aubrey
[1]
http://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ricerca.php
[2]
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P508
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty%3AP508&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNES2Kai1a2kHor83XRugNKEzQ6Ntg>
[3]
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Thesaurus_BNCF
[4]
http://data.bnf.fr/
[5]
http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
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