1. ZBW is member of the Leibniz Association
20th Century Press Archives goes Wikidata
Joachim Neubert
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Archivcamp, Rostock
25.9.2018
5. Page 5
What are we dealing with?
Historic Press Archives, founded in 1909 (Hamburg) and 1914 (Kiel)
• Some material dating back to 1826
• Collections closed in 2005
Thematic dossiers covering
• Persons
• Companies
• Products
• General subjects and events
6. Page 6
Current state
Former DFG funded project, resulting in
• Digitized roll films (material before 1949)
• Relational database about dossiers, often with GND ID
• Big filesystem (containing roughly 1.8m pages)
• Accessible via
• custom application “Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert” and
• DFG-Viewer (METS/MODS files, per dossier)
All metadata available under CC 0 license
8. Wikidata basics
• Knowledge base for Wikimedia projects
• All kinds of entities: concepts, places, people, works …
• Editable by everyone
• Data available (under CC0)
• http://query.wikidata.org/ (SPARQL)
• JSON API & database dumps
Page 8
16. Dataset for „Coding da Vinci 2018“
Dataset, API (SPARQL endpoint) and documentation for persons and
comapnies/organizations:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410553
More info on the Coding da Vinci Kultur-Hackathon: https://codingdavinci.de/
Page 16
17. Page 17
Thanks for listening!
Joachim Neubert
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
j.neubert@zbw.eu
http://webopac.hwwa.de/pressemappe20
http://zbw.eu/labs
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jneubert