Presentation at GLAM-WIKI by Mathias Schindler. http://glam.wikimedia.org.au

1. The Metadata Ecosystem
Moving Records between Wikipedia
and the German National Library
Mathias Schindler
Wikimedia Germany e.V.
GLAM-Wiki
August 7, 2009 Australian War Memorial Canberra

2. German language Wikipedia
• 930.000 articles
277.000 of them are biographies (~30%)
• 450 million words of text
• 400 to 500 new articles per day
• 1000 people with more than 100 edits per
month (pretty stable since Oct 2006)
• 90% of the articles larger than 0.5 Kbytes
50% of the articles larger than 2 Kbytes

3. 2004 Wikipedia CD-ROM
• „Directmedia publishing“, a company in Berlin
released a CD-ROM with the text of the
German language edition of Wikipedia
• Introduction of Persondata template
• Correct lexicographic sorting

4. {{Personendaten}} template
{{Personendaten
|NAME=Blanchett, Cate
|ALTERNATIVNAMEN=Blanchett, Catherine Elise
(Geburtsname)
|KURZBESCHREIBUNG=australische Filmschauspielerin
|GEBURTSDATUM=14. Mai 1969
|GEBURTSORT=[[Melbourne]], Australien
|STERBEDATUM=
|STERBEORT=
}}

5. {{PND}}
• {{PND|129968471}}
• {{Normdaten|PND=118529579|
LCCN=n/79/22889|VIAF=75121530|
SELIBR=184709}}
– http://d-nb.info/gnd/118529579
– http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n79-22889.html
– http://viaf.org/75121530
– http://libris.kb.se/auth/184709

6. Special:Booksources (current)

7. German National Library
• Integration of PND data since 2005
• Feedback page at Wikipedia
• Staff at the national library is parsing this list
• Workshop with Wikipedians in 2008

8. Upcoming work
• Let Wikipedians help maintain the authority file
a bit more directly
• Let Wikipedians create authority file entries on
people who should have one
• Integrate bibliographic data into Wikipedia
• Create services to help find uses sources
faster
• Template:ISBN

9. Geolocation
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

10. Geo-tagging

11. Database links

12. How to access the data
• Download full dataset at
download.wikipedia.org
• Parser tools like extraktor.pl
• Wikimedia Toolserver

13. Thank you
Mathias Schindler
Wikimedia Deutschland
mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de