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45 years old Almost 30K libraries contributing from
170 countries More than 271 M items 1200 employees 21 offices worldwide
Since 1978 46 people 3 locations (Dublin, San Mateo, Leiden)
Pure research not product R&D
not market research
Although content creation is fast
Internal policy progress is glacial, conservative
Consensus model over asynchronous and near-anonymous discussion
Community orginated. 27,456 instances
2009 “Linkspam” accusations against OCLC. Cause links to Amazon and B&N on the WorldCat
page.
Original accuser was banned for being argumentative.
Authority file matching
During creation used Wikipedia data
2013. Wikipedia will be promoted to “source” rather than reference.
English Wikipedia 4,000 instances
German Wikipeida 220,000 instances
Wikimedia Commons 45,000 instances
Added by hand Rules vary by
language
…
English Only, for now Targets 260,000 pages 1/16th of English Wikipedia
Still won’t be fully synched with Deutsche Wikipedia
https://github.com/notconfusing/VIAFbot Uses Pywikipediabot In community code review: running within the
next month
Transclusion You can draw in text from other pages (typically
templates)
Can send parameters Templates can perform Simple logic operations
Simple text manipulation
Still Wikitext, not fully query-able
Phase 1 Revamping interlanguage links
Phase 2 Data, Templates and Infoboxes
Phase 3 Semantic querying
Backers: Google, Paul Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Release Date: January 2013 Caveat: Requires adoption by each individual
language wiki – by consensus. Wikipedias having found consensus so far: …
• 411,274 citations of books
• 244, 236 citations of journals
• 57,868 citations of encyclopedias
• 342,470 of newspapers
• 1,055,845 total print citations
• 1,169,495 citations of webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maximilianklein/Citations
• 154,978 Citation of Google books
• 38,328 Citations of Amazon
• 7,695 Citations of Worldcathttp://webempires.org/wikirank-wikipedias-top-sources/wiki_top/
• Must Make it easier to link to libraries.
A Wikipedia article could be a good way of declaring the aboutness of a record.
~Asaf Bartov (User:Ijon)
Have to gain Wikipedia approval to reciprocate links with a bot Subject to community approval
Requires maintenance Can become unsynchronized