User:Marianika/Historical Bibliographic Data
This page documents a community of practice for people in the Wiki communities and/or in academia and/or in the GLAM sector who model historical bibliographic data (pre-ISBN/ISSN/ISMN).
Communication
editThe community of practice communicates via a Google Group, which functions both as a listserv (if you like emails) or a forum (if you hate emails).
Once your request to join is approved, you can see other members email addresses, should you want to contact them individually. Some members have also included contact information in the directory below.
Events
editThe community of practice grew out of the following two events held in the fall of 2021. It will meet again in free virtual conferences.
Linked Pasts VII
editTwo activities were held at Linked Pasts VII on Monday 13 and Wednesday 15 December 2021. Links to the slides are provided below.
The promise of Linked Open Data can only be fulfilled with persistent identifiers, but libraries only put them out for editions, not works. Wikidata is a space where persistent identifiers can be created for works to enable us to share our data across databases. However, various data models are currently in use for bibliographic data in Wikidata. Is this a problem?
In the first session (demonstration), Simon Cobb presented bibliographic data in Wikidata from two different projects, the first in the simplified work/edition model used in Wikidata, the second using FRBR. Marie Léger-St-Jean explained choices regarding the data model of her database Price One Penny used in the second project.
In the second session (conversation), participants were invited to bring along a visualization of their data model so we could share our different bibliographic data models and discuss whether it would cause problems to have different data models when sharing our data amongst ourselves and on Wikidata.
- Demonstration: Monday 13 December 2021. 17:00-18:00 GMT/18:00-19:00 CET (slides)
- Conversation: Wednesday 15 December 2021. 19:00-21:00 GMT/20:00-22:00 CET (slides)
WikidataCon 2021
editA first event was held during WikidataCon 2021 as the Pre-ISBN/ISSN bibliographic data workshop under the Wikicite track on 31 October 2021. The Etherpad on which the notes were taken is still available.
In this workshop, we will discuss edge cases in historical bibliographic data and document ways of making them fit the Wikidata data models for books and periodicals. We're bringing together people from a variety of backgrounds, some that will be more familiar with the data we're talking about, some that will be more familiar with the technical side, some who might just be observing. We're hoping to spark a conversation that will keep going.
This workshop, led by three digital humanist bibliographers (Simon Cobb, Demian Katz, and Marie Léger-St-Jean), will strengthen bridges between the Wikidata community and bibliographic scholarship and stewardship. Working in three groups, participants will familiarize themselves with the WikiProject Books and WikiProject Periodicals data models, discuss edge cases that can come from their own data, document these use cases for the data models, and post documentation.
The three groups will be talking about translations, series of works, and works serialized in installments. We will then come back all together to explain the various Wikidata communication channels, discuss how we want to keep the conversation going, and announce relevant upcoming events related to our personal projects.
Directory
editPeople
editIf you are interested in historical bibliographic data, please edit this page to add yourself and list whatever information you are comfortable sharing. If you have or are part of a project, please add it to the next table.
Username | First name | Last name | Project(s) and/or interests | |
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Marianika | Marie | Léger-St-Jean | marie.leger.st.jean _AT_ gmail.com | Price One Penny |
VIGNERON | - | - | Special:EmailUser/VIGNERON | A bit of everything but in particular manuscripts |
Eroux108 | - | - | roux.elie _AT_ gmail.com | Buddhist Digital Resource Center |
demiankatz | Demian | Katz | demian.katz _AT_ villanova.edu | Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography |
Archilecteur | Julien | Vallières | julien.vallieres-gingras _AT_ mcgill.ca | Retrospective indexation, redocumentarisation, periodical, canadian literature |
EvinaS | Evina | Steinová | evincek _AT_ gmail.com | Innovating Knowledge |
Brimwats | bri | watson | bmwatson1989 _AT_ gmail.com | HistSex.org |
Carlobia | Carlo | Bianchini | carlo.bianchini _AT_ unipv.it | Italian LIS journals Retrospective (and current) indexing of Italian academic literature on Library and Information science |
Reema | - | - | reema.sukhija _AT_ gmail.com | Buddhist Digital Resource Center |
Rosiestep | Rosie | Stephenson-Goodknight | rosiestep.wiki _AT_ gmail.com | Women Writers in Review/Women Writers in Review |
Pimfa | Alice | Faria | alicesantiagofaria _AT_ fcsh.unl.pt | A bit of everything, linking Historical Bibliographic Data with other data |
- | Alex | Wingate | alewinga _AT_ iu.edu | Navarre Book Project |
Homo peruvianus | Luis | Sáenz | luissaenzs _AT_ gmail.com | Electronic Babylonian Literature Cuneiform, Akkadian, Sumerian |
Zidmgmt | Zoe | Dobbs | zoe.dobbs _AT_ yale.edu | all types of bibliographic data, Yale's PCC Wikidata Pilot Project (now concluded) |
DL2204 | David | Lindemann | david.lindemann _AT_ ehu.eus | LexBib Bibliography of Lexicography and Dictionary Research (started 2021), Inguma Wikibase (LOD version of Inguma Scholarly Communication in Basque, starting 2022) |
Projects
editProject name | Timespan | Geographic area | Description of the data modelled |
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Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography | 1860-1915 (mostly) | Global (mostly United States) | Dime novels, story papers, reprint libraries and related popular literature |
Price One Penny | 1837-1860 | London (UK/US/France with the sources) | Penny bloods, i.e. novels sold in penny weekly numbers in either number books (stand-alone editions) or periodicals
Half were reprints, translations or adaptations of other cultural products (books, plays, songs) |
Wikidata:WikiProject Books | n/a | n/a | Books |
Buddhist Digital Resource Center | -100 - today | Asia (Inner, South, Southeast, East) | Manuscripts, xylographs, modern facsimile, digital editions |
Wikidata:WikiProject Periodicals | n/a | n/a | Periodicals |
Innovating Knowledge | 636-1015 | Latin West (mostly western Europe) | medieval Latin Western manuscripts containing the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (the most important Western encyclopaedia up until the 13th c.) |
HistSex.org | All, but largely 1950+ | Global (Western overrepresented) | History of sexuality Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Special Collections (GLAMS) |
Women Writers in Review | 1525-1850 | trans-Atlantic | "Cultures of Reception" of the works by pre-Victorian trans-Atlantic English language women writers |
Documentation
editConceptual models
edit- Wikidata (Q2013)
- Library of Congress (Q131454)
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (Q1334284)
Data models
editNational libraries
edit- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Q193563)
- Modèle de données (Feb 2018)
- British Library (Q23308)
- British Library Data Model - Book (Aug 2020)
- British Library Data Model - Serial (Aug 2020)
Projects
editUse cases
edit- "Creating and editing libraries in Wikidata" by Dan Scott (Q52885426) (19 February 2018)
- "Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art?" by Martin Poulter (13 October 2021)
Relevant Wikidata identifiers
editBelow is an attempt to classify Wikidata subclass entities according to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (Q16388) conceptual model.
Subclass entities
edit- written work (Q47461344)
- intellectual work (Q15621286)
- literary work (Q7725634)
- dramatico-musical work (Q58483083)
Problematic entities
editThe following seems to conflate publication expression (F24) (Q61130262) and manifestation product type (F3) (Q60644797):
Entities left to classify
edit- serialized fiction (Q1347298)
- periodical (Q1002697)
- book series (Q277759)
- poem (Q5185279)
- scholarly article (Q13442814)
- editorial (Q871232)
- novel (Q8261)
- guide book (Q223638)
- Talmudical tractate (Q7831615)
- drama (Q25372)
- short story collection (Q1279564)
- single (Q134556)
- song (Q7366)
- translated song (Q63141557)
- catalogue (Q2352616)
- comic story (Q56855534)
- volume (Q1238720)
- book (Q571)
- publication (Q732577)
- novella (Q149537)
- sung-through (Q7640073)
- diploma thesis (Q30749496)
- book series (Q277759)
- drame lyrique (Q1255689)
- encyclopedia article (Q13433827)
- academic journal article (Q18918145)
- review article (Q7318358)
- scientific journal (Q5633421)
- comic strip (Q838795)
- collection of fairy tales (Q27560760)
- incunable (Q216665)
- scholarly chapter (Q21481766)
- radio drama (Q2635894)
- article (Q191067)
- magazine (Q41298)
- scientific journal (Q5633421)
- comedy (Q40831)
- pamphlet (Q190399)
- play (Q25379)
- daily newspaper (Q1110794)
- fable (Q693)
- comic book album (Q2831984)
- newspaper (Q11032)
- website (Q35127)
- comic book series (Q14406742)
- video game (Q7889)
- comics (Q1004)
- thesis (Q1266946)
- scholarly work (Q55915575)
- monograph (Q193495)
- literary cycle (Q867335)
- narrative poetry (Q474090)
- antisemitic trope (Q2839017)
- general map (Q1501880)
- manuscript map (Q2353983)
- item of collection or exhibition (Q18593264)
- video game remake (Q4393107)
- free software (Q341)