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Graph-ted on: Dewey and Wikipedia

February 24, 2014September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein

Introduction Since entering the library world, I’ve been fascinated by the substream of uber-geeks which are the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) nerds. It was the enthusiastic and technical-leaning banter of …

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Harvesting Book Metadata From Wikipedia to Wikidata

November 27, 2013September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein - 4 Comments.

Infoboxes for a long time were Wikipedias’ way of storing data, and Wikidata is set to replace that techonlogy, with added bonuses like inter-language sharing. To get to that promise …

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“Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF

September 25, 2013September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein - 3 Comments.

There is a main distinction in links to different online databases – that of opacity. In the case that the URI gives you an indication as to its contents, that …

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Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF part 2

June 19, 2013September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein - 2 Comments.

Now that VIAFbot has finished importing VIAF IDs into Wikidata, I wanted to demonstrate what kind of work could be done with those connections.  In March, using Wikidata, I investigated …

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Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF

May 13, 2013September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein - 9 Comments.

Last week I wrote about the ‘rope bridge’ between Wikidata and VIAF, and the new research it would afford. Today I bring you a sample of that research. I am …

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The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata

May 9, 2013September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein - 1 Comment

You may recall that our Wikipedia reciprocal linking robot “VIAFbot” finished adding Authority Control to more than a quarter of a million (English language) Wikipedia articles, but what was the …

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Wikipedia Analytics Engine

January 14, 2013September 4, 2020 - by Max Klein

Wikipedia has its own data-structure in templates with parameters — if you are not familiar with Wikipedia templates, an example is “infoboxes,” which show up as fixed-format tables in the …

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VIAFbot Debriefing

November 28, 2012September 4, 2020 - by Max Klein - 7 Comments.

Shortly after reaching the 1/4 million edits milestone VIAFbot finished linking Wikipedia biography articles to VIAF.org. Examining the bot’s logs reveals telling statistics about the landscape of Authorities on Wikipedia. …

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Open Access Wikipedia Challenge on P2PU

October 23, 2012September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein

It’s been traditional recently to hold Wikipedia Loves Libraries events during Open Access Week, and I fully support the practice. What’s also been traditional, in a way that I wanted …

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Cousins: The Bookworm and Wikignome

October 3, 2012September 9, 2020 - by Max Klein

As we all know, the best you can hope of a meeting is not a conclusion, but a chuckle at a statistical oddity. When OCLC’s Top Library Loans List came …

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