[open-bibliography] Wikipedia project: bibliographic-archival data base

[Jim Pitman]

Adrian, jumping to your conclusion:

> Wikimedia is one of the organizations most interested in open
> bibliographic data. They have very much supported the open
> bibliographic data movement. It is only consequent that they are now
> starting a project like this. We should see how we can cooperate.

I agree. Is there a volunteer on this list willing to act as a point
of contact between OKFN/openbiblio and this effort? 
I do have somewhere a list of names of people involved with a currently stalled Wikimedia effort to 
provide an adequately structured database of books and articles cited in Wikipedia. I'll be glad to 
find the list and share with anyone who has the time to follow up on this.
--Jim

Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> on Saturday a project was introduced at the Wikipedia Convention.
> Jakob Voß has written about it (in German) in his blog.[1] See the
> English wiki page for the project[2], where it reads:
>
> "Libraries and archives all over the world are increasingly ready to
> release their electronical catalogue entries. What follows is the plan
> to create a Wikipedia source for such information: a source which
> users should not only consult to locate materials but also to
> intelligently connect, comment and correct information they find.
>
> (...)
>
> The ideal tool would become a central data base in the Wikipedia
> universe. Correct information within this database and the respective
> entries in Wikipedia articles that refer to this piece of information
> show the new data (perhaps even with the research reference given in
> the data base). Wikisource-should be able to use our data. (...)
>
> The entire project should be seen as a first step into the arena of
> structured data."
>
> In 2012 will be a workshop on this project.[3]
>
> Wikimedia is one of the organizations most interested in open
> bibliographic data. They have very much supported the open
> bibliographic data movement. It is only consequent that they are now
> starting a project like this. We should see how we can cooperate.
>
> All the best
> Adrian
>
> [1] http://jakoblog.de/2011/09/10/wikimedia-projekt-bibliographisch-archivalische-datenbank/
>
> [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bibliographisch-archivalische_Datenbank/English
>
> [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bibliographisch-archivalische_Datenbank/English_Workshop
>
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