KBNLbot
Joined 4 February 2022
This user account is a bot without a bot flag. The bot is operated by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje (KB).
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This bot is for performing (future, bulk) tasks on Wikidata related to the data, images and collections of the KB National Library of the Netherlands (Q1526131).
Planned tasks include
- Adding/editing data of approx. 2.7M authors of the the NTA dataset (and described in the Dutch National Thesaurus for Author Names WikiProject
- Adding data related to the special collections of the KB. In particular:
- data about alba amicorum, related to WikiProject Alba amicorum National Library of the Netherlands
- data about medieval manuscripts, related to WikiProject Medieval manuscripts National Library of the Netherlands
- data about catchpenny prints
- Adding/editing data about (historical) publishers, related to WikiProject Publishers of the Low Countries
- Adding/editing data/aliases of authors, translators, printers to existing Wikidata items
- Adding/editing data/aliases to existing publishers in Wikidata (STCN/Bibliopolis)
- Adding Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID (P1006), VIAF ID (P214), ISNI (P213), Library of Congress authority ID (P244) and other external identifiers related to KB collections to WD items
- Replacing dead, outdated or non-persistent links to sites of the KB with up-to-date and/or persistent URLs, related to this repo. For instance, replace non-durable KB catalogue links (eg. https://opc-kb.oclc.org/PPN?PPN=40239772X) by their persistent equivalents (eg. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=PPN:40239772X)
- Periodic monitoring of completeness, quality and integrity of WD items related to KB collections, and correcting those issues programmatically.
This bot is currently inactive.
It is operated by
- User:OlafJanssen (contribs), who also operates OlafJanssenBot, his personal bot account (contribs),
- User:DanielleJWiki (contribs) and
- User:1Veertje (KB) (contribs)
three employees of the KB who are experienced Wikimedians as well.
See also the user pages of this bot on
For further disclosure, the GLAM-Wiki project pages of the KB can be found on