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Wikidata report
Wikidata this month
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Spinster
GLAM news
- On 29 July, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in in New York released metatdata about its entire collection of more than 125,000 works onto GitHub using Creative Commons Zero (CC0). The very next day, a "MoMA artwork id" property, P2014, was created on Wikidata, all the Wikidata items about MoMA objects had a value for that property, and the rest were in the Mix'n'Match tool ready for checking and import.
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
- Wikidata's WikiProject Visual arts now has an extensive overview of art movements: their typical metadata structure, remarks, and a long to do list. Help improve art movements on Wikidata!
- A list of non-Wikimedia sites using Wikidata for authority control has been started
- A list of GLAM-related Wikidata pages is at d:Wikidata:GLAM
New GLAM-related properties
- MovieMeter director ID
- MovieMeter movie identifier
- RSL editions
- lesarchivesduspectacle ID (for actors)
- Righteous Among The Nations ID
- PolSys ID (for Norwegian politicians)
- FSK film rating
- Anime News Network person ID
- Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID
- Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- Delarge ID
- species kept
- LPSN URL (URL for the website List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature)
- Plazi ID (UUID for a taxon treatment)
- TeX string
- AllMusic composition ID
- medical specialty
- parliament.uk bio link
- UNESCO language status
- CPDL ID (for a work or person, in the Choral Public Domain Library)
- NALT id (in the subject categories of the Agricultural Thesaurus of United States National Agricultural Library)
- Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- ZooBank author ID
- ZooBank publication ID
- IPNI publication ID
- Cooper-Hewitt Person ID
- Facebook ID
- MoMA artwork id
For full Wikidata news, see the weekly status updates.
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