Wikidata:GLAM/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Nederland/OtherActivities
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Overview of other activities[edit]
Besides the current Wikidata projects and Wikibase activities, the KB is also involved in a number of other related activities:
Future project ideas, prototyping, experiments[edit]
Middelnederlandse handschriften[edit]
This project aims to upload 100s of digitized Middle-Dutch (?) manuscripts to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
The KB has no suitable image platform to publish these scans on. (KB contact: Jeroen van D.)
Structured data for KB images on Wikimedia Commons[edit]
See the page about KB's SDoC efforts on Wikimedia Commomns
KB thesauri in Wikidata, and vice versa[edit]
SECTION COMMENTED OUT, NEEDS UPDATING
KB xportal[edit]
The KB xportal is a web application for accessing metadata and content of KB collections. It is used for testing and demonstrating new developments prior to a potential implementation in Delpher. Named entities (persons, places, organisations etc.) in eg. historical newspapers are linked to resource descriptions in Wikidata and other sources. The xportal also supports direct Wikidata SPARQL queries (and see here).
Live demo and further instructions: https://lab.kb.nl/tool/xportal
Presentations about or referring to the xportal:
- Wikidata as universal library thesaurus by Theo van Veen (2018, from slide 16)
- Verbinden van bibliotheekcollecties met Wikimedia-projecten by Ursula Oberst (2019, slide 9)
Meetings, conferences, events, workshops etc.[edit]
Staff members of the KB take part in numerous meetings, workshops, conferences, hackathons and other events in which Wikidata and/or Wikibase play main or significant roles.
The aims of these events are always to learn, teach, inspire and share both theoretical and practical knowledge, skills, awareness and networks related to Wikidata/Wikibase, to mutual benefit.
Awareness and advocacy[edit]
The KB tries to raise awareness of the opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of using Wikidata and Wikibase in the fields of open cultural heritage, digital humanities, data sciences etc.
This is not only done via publications, presentations and events, but also throught direct and indirect consultancy and lobbying with policy makers, government bodies, networks and interest groups, such as the ministry of OCW and the NDE network.