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This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015 Normal version • Single page version

Wikidata report

Wikidata this month

By Daniel Mietchen & Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

Tech developments

• A major step forward with the introduction of measurements for properties (for example for the height and width of paintings) happened in early September, but is worth reporting ASAP
• Arbitrary access is now available on most Wikipedias, with another batch (including the largest, the English Wikipedia) due on 16 September.
• Wikidata has been optimized for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)

GLAM news

• New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
• Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
• EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
• WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings.
• Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
• @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
• Discussion of how to tag art movements

New GLAM-related properties

• Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• ZooBank author ID
• ZooBank publication ID
• IPNI publication ID
• Cooper-Hewitt Person ID
• MoMA artwork id
• Hansard ID
• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id
• Teuchos ID
• AllMovie artist ID
• Find A Grave cemetery ID
• Avibase ID
• United States Armed Forces service number
• Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID
• work period start (i.e florit)
• work period end
• Project Gutenberg ebook ID
• African Plant Database
• GitHub username
• ResearchGate ID

For full Wikidata news, see the weekly status updates.

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August 2015

• Argentina report
• France report
• Germany report
• Mexico report
• Spain report
• Sweden report
• UK report
• Special story
• Open Access report
• Wikidata report
• Calendar

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