Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025/Programme/wikidata-viaf
How Wikidata community can encourage national libraries to join VIAF as a part of increasing collaboration between national libraries and Wikidata (and Commons)With:
- GEA ZOHAR
Day: January 16, 2025
Time: 15:15-15:30
Room: 2246
Time: 15:15-15:30
Room: 2246
Abstract:
A big part of national libraries are not part of VIAF. Encouraging those libraries to join to VIAF with a help of bigger and stronger national libraries can benefit also to Wikidata and Commons. Leading this kind of projects is in scope of Wikimedia movement.
The benefit for Wikidata involving this project is increasing the amount of identifiers, data refinement, linguistic diversity of the identifiers and more. As it's about national libraries the benefit for Commons is obvious. more media files that can be uploaded to Commons.
