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Current Wikidata projects of KB edit
This project aims to improve the findabilty, visibilty and reusability of the KB copy of the Flora Batava for both humans and machines by
On Wikidata
- creating Wikidata descriptions for all 28 digitised volumes of the Flora Batava,
- creating Wikidata descriptions for all 2.240 digitised botanical plates of the Flora Batava,
- matching the (approx.) 2.630 plants species depicted on the Flora Batava plates with the Wikidata descriptions of the physical species, followed by
- improving the Wikidata descriptions for these depicted species,
- creating and improving the Wikidata descriptions for contributors and agents of the Flora Batava, such as authors, illustrators, publishers, translators etc.
On Wikimedia Commons
- uploading all available public domain images (ie. botanical plates and associated text pages in Dutch and in French) to Wikimedia Commons,
- reusing fields from Wikidata as much as possible to add both structured and free-text (Wikitext) metadata to all images
On Wikipedia
- creating and improving the articles about the book on Dutch and English Wikipedia
This project started in April 2023. Because of the effort involved it will run for the rest of 2023 and into 2024. It is part of the KB Collection highlights project.
This projects aims to
- dat zoveel mogelijk uitgeverijen die in de KB-data voorkomen een wikidata-item hebben.
- ....
This projects aims to
- Publish the full Dutch National Thesaurus for Author Names (short: NTA) on Wikidata. The data of approx. 2.751.666 authors will be made available on Wikidata.
- Reversly, add Wikidata Qnumbers to all 2.7M persons in the NTA
- Set up periodic synchronisation between the NTA and Wikidata
This projects aims to
- Create Wikidata items for all alba amicorum, album contributions and album contributors in the collection of the KB
- create links between all these alba, contributions and contributors, as well as link to other related entities, both within KB collections and external collections/sources
- visualise these links and connections across space and time.
- Upload images from these alba to Wikimedia Commons
- Write articles about these alba on Dutch and English Wikipedia
This project is the follow-up / scaling-up of the Album amicorum Jacob Heyblocq pilot project. Also, lessons and best-practices from the KB Collection highlights project are being used in this project.
This project aims to
- Create Wikidata descriptions for 400 illuminated medieval manuscripts from the collections of KB (and Museum Meermanno), including their associated makers, places etc.
- Upload some 11.400 images and miniatures of these manuscripts to Wikimedia Commons, and link them to Wikidata (and v.v.)
- In other words: add the BYVANCK and ByvanckB datasets to the LOD cloud
- Write Wikipedia articles about the manuscripts
This project aims to improve the findabilty, visibilty and reusability of KB's collection highlights for both humans and machines by
- creating and improving the Wikidata descriptions for all digitised KB collection highlights,
- uploading their public domain images to Wikimedia Commons, reusing fields from Wikidata as much as possible to create image metadata
- creating and improving the Wikipedia articles about them on Dutch and English Wikipedia
This project follows best practices and lessons learned during the Album amicorum Jacob Heyblocq pilot project.
This project aims to
- Create Wikidata items for all the picture books in the Category:Picture books from Koninklijke Bibliotheek on Wikimedia Commons. These are mainly the public domain books from the collection Prentenboeken van 1810 tot 1950 on the Geheugen website.
- Bulk extract 381 KB children's books from the Europeana Rise of Literacy project, described them on Wikidata and upload their images to Wikimedia Commons (as far as they are not yet in the above category, and are in the public domain)
- Write Wikipedia articles about the picture books
This project aims to
- Create Wikidata items for digitized historical maps and atlasses from the KB collection (see here, here or here), while putting special focus on the geographical (lat-lon) aspects of the data, enabeling datavisualisations etc (see also this Wikidata map making workshop)
- Upload their images to Wikimedia Commons and add Structured Data to those images (semantic tagging)
- Write and improve the Wikipedia articles about the maps and atlasses
This project aims to
- describe the most important Dutch language literary awards (Netherlands, Flanders, Dutch Antilles, Surinam), including
- their winners, nominees, jury members, locations, events etc.,
- for all the years these awards have been granted, all on Wikidata,
as well as
- create and improve Wikipedia articles related to these awards, winners, nominees, jury members etc.
This project aims to create Wikidata descriptions for the (1000+) most important (canonical) texts from the cultural history of The Netherlands, as defined by these two lists:
- Basisbibliotheek - Duizend sleutelteksten uit de cultuurgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen (DBNL). See this list on Dutch Wikipedia and on Wikidata
- Canon van de Nederlandse letterkunde (Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde). See this list on Dutch Wikipedia and on Wikidata
Secondary goals would be to
- create Wikipedia articles for those works that do not yet have their own articles
- put the texts of those works on Wikisource, as far as they are in the public domain.
This project aims to
- create Wikidata descriptions,
- upload imagery to Wikimedia Commons and
- write Wikipedia articles
for the full (and public domain) oeuvre of Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (Q559440) (1882-1945)
This project aims to create LOD + Wikidata items for the Algemeen letterkundig lexicon, the Dutch philological lexicon, an overview of more than 4.500 literary terms explained in their context. In collaboration with the Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Q2451336)
This project aims to add relevant data from https://github.com/ookgezellig/SaveToWaybackMachine/tree/master/Literatuurplein to Wikidata, most notably 11.598 persons, often with dates of birth & death and places of birth & death.
This project aims to create Wikidata items for Dutch public libraries, both for the pm. 1500 library branches and for the pm. 160 library organisations.
See this presentation (pdf) for the rationale of the project.
A spin-off from this project is the Map making workshop – from Wikidata to interactive off-Wiki maps in three steps