Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025/Submissions/How Wikidata community can encourage national libraries to join VIAF as a part of increasing collaboration between national libraries and Wikidata (and Commons)
| ID : 46 | How Wikidata community can encourage national libraries to join VIAF as a part of increasing collaboration between national libraries and Wikidata (and Commons) | ||
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| Author(s): Geagea, Dr. Ahava Cohen Ahava Cohen (Q61957638), Head of Cataloging Department in the National Library of Israel and the former chair of the VIAF Council, Camillo Pellizzari | Username(s): Geagea | Type of submission: Lecture | |
| Affiliation: Wikimedia Georgia | Theme(s): Wikidata, Commons | ||
| Abstract:
National Library of Israel/New institutions to VIAF project - 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. |
Slides: commons:File:WikiProject More authority files in VIAF (Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025).pdf (draft: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XDEvphhiWXJGSOQ2verschzWXBvITucLnDWicmI5G08/edit?usp=sharing) | ||
| Level of advancement: advanced knowledge | |||
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| Recording (Yes/No): Yes | |||
| Photography (Yes/No): Yes | |||
| How will this session be beneficial for the communities in the region of CEE?
Many of the countries participating in CEE are not members of VIAF | |||
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