Last week, I pushed metadata for some 700+ Ottoman Turkish periodicals published mainly between the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and the end of the empire to #Wikidata. Data is based on Baykal's wonderful index (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004394889).

Together with the Arabic periodicals added earlier this year, coverage of periodical history beyond English, French or German on Wikidata is pretty good. Thanks to these efforts, English is now severely under represented (percentage of periodicals represented on Wikidata): https://w.wiki/ArRb.

Arabic is the second most prominent language (after English) and Ottoman the ninth. Swedish is a surprising third and, given the difference in the number of speakers, quite astonishing that there were at least c.2750 Swedish newspapers published before 1930 compared to the grand total of c.3000 Arabic titles in the same period.

#Wikidata currently holds information on almost 20000 periodicals published worldwide before 1930: https://w.wiki/A6s8. But, as one would suspect, quality of data and coverage differs widely between regions.

So, if you work on periodicals, particularly those published outside the Global North and major centres of publication, consider adding your knowledge to Wikidata for others to link to and discover these awesome resources.

I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!

With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).

More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).

Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.

Aiming at finding various tribes, I just post a collection of interests