Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts

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Location: At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) and online
Date: 10th November, 2021
Time: 16:00-19:00 CEST
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3
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Context

From self-managed libraries to open structured data, there are many ways to organise libraries. In this workshop we were joined by Lozana Rossenova, a designer and researcher, who presented some of her work on the Digital Archive of Artist's Publishing, an archive of net art made for Rhizome and the structuring of the data using the Wikibase extension of MediaWiki.

Activities

After Lozana's presentation, we took a deep dive into open structured data. This began with looking at the Wikidata website (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page), and learning more about the project. Items in the Wikidata database have particular "Q numbers", which are unique numbers used to identify the item. Many of these are historical and relate to the order in which items were initially entered ("the universe" is Q1, "earth" is Q2), however Q42 is reserved for Douglas Adams as an inside joke.

The Earth (Q2)

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