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Import Swedish Library Database
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Online: https://biblioteksdatabasen.libris.kb.se/exportinfo/

We know from communication with data provider that parts of the detailed information (phone number, website, possibly postal addresses...) are not up to date or not quality assured. I still think we can (start with) the basic info and then possibly discuss how useful the rest is, or crowdsource it...

Basic info to upload:

  • Library name :)
  • Administrative location (municip/region)
  • Coordinates!

Further problems:

  • Hospital/school libraries in the database have problematic names, such as Sjukhuset i Falköping or Musikhögskolan Ingesund. These cannot be imported as names of libraries.
    • Possible Solution: only import public libraries? I.e. Bibliotekstyp == folkbib
  • Some foreign/Nordic libraries included – b/c connected to Libris.
    • Should these be excluded?
  • ID property has to be investigated. The libraries in the database have a siglum, but:
    • Is it unique?
    • Is it part of an international system, or only Swedish? Note that non-Swedish libraries in the db have sigels starting with digits, like 5Hfb, which is weird.

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Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE created this task.Feb 5 2019, 8:42 AM
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Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE added a parent task: T215268: ☂FindingGLAMs data uploads.Feb 5 2019, 12:41 PM
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Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE added a subtask: T216997: Summarize the issues encountered with the Library Database.Feb 25 2019, 9:57 AM
Jopparn closed subtask T216379: Collect statistics for Swedish Library Database upload as Resolved.Apr 8 2019, 10:25 AM
Jopparn closed subtask T215239: Create Dataset imports page for Swedish Library Database as Resolved.Apr 8 2019, 10:49 AM
Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE mentioned this in T205383: Import the Libris library database.Apr 16 2019, 7:16 AM
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Please investigate if there were some libraries that weren't uploaded to WIkidata.

Jopparn closed subtask T216997: Summarize the issues encountered with the Library Database as Declined.Jul 23 2021, 10:26 AM
Jopparn moved this task from Backlog to FindingGLAMs on the WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Helpdesk board.Jul 23 2021, 10:52 AM
Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE edited projects, added WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Strategic-data-uploads; removed WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Helpdesk.Nov 1 2021, 8:57 AM
Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE added a comment.EditedFeb 24 2025, 10:38 AM

We did this upload a couple years ago. Now that we're looking at data about GLAMs again, as part of the Hub activities, could be worth looking into it again and do any updates (the website provides a spreadsheet dated Feb 2025)

Jopparn added a comment.Feb 24 2025, 10:40 AM
In T215237#10574705, @Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE wrote:

We did this upload a couple years ago. Now that we're looking at data about GLAMs again, as part of the Hub activities, could be worth looking into it again and do any updates (the website provides a spreadsheet dated Feb 2025)

Yes, that might be relevant! Do you have an indication how many changes/new additions we are talking about?

Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE added a comment.EditedFeb 25 2025, 7:55 AM
In T215237#10574713, @Jopparn wrote:
In T215237#10574705, @Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE wrote:

We did this upload a couple years ago. Now that we're looking at data about GLAMs again, as part of the Hub activities, could be worth looking into it again and do any updates (the website provides a spreadsheet dated Feb 2025)

Yes, that might be relevant! Do you have an indication how many changes/new additions we are talking about?

The recent version of the dataset has 4,125 rows.

If we look at Wikidata items that are some subclass of "library" (to cover public libraries, academic libraries etc) in Sweden we get ca 2700 items https://w.wiki/DCRM

Having said that, the Libris database also includes some libraries in other Nordic countries, but not that many to account for the difference.

Looks like we only uploaded public / academic libraries last time, whereas the dataset contains some less known types as well, like företagsbibliotek https://biblioteksdatabasen.libris.kb.se/library/Tank/

So it's an interesting dataset to look at now as well.

A next step could be creating a property for the Libris library ID, seeing as they all have an ID that can be used in an URL, like https://biblioteksdatabasen.libris.kb.se/library/Bo/

There's a number of properties used to identify libraries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100698536

now proposed a property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LIBRIS_Library_ID

Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE added a comment.Apr 10 2025, 5:08 AM

The property was just created! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LIBRIS_Library_ID

Will start working on the imports next week most probably.

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