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Monthly Archives: October 2017

In my last blog post “The Big Ones“, I wrote about my attempts to import large, third-party datasets, and to synchronize those with Wikidata. I have since imported three datasets (BNF, VIAF, GND), and created a status page to keep a public record of what I did, and try to do. I have run a […]

The Big Ones

Update: After fixing an import error, and cross-matching of BNF-supplied VIAF data, 18% of BNF people are matched in Wikidata. This has been corrected in the text. My mix’n’match tool holds a lot of entries from third-party catalogs – 21,795,323 at the time of writing. That’s a lot, but it doesn’t cover “the big ones” – […]