[dlpdev] minutes of london dlp meeting 20th / 10 / 04

[Kurt Jansson]

Hi Saul!

> - there have been lots of good suggestions from everyone in the last few 
> months, but we haven't acted on them yet. What are our priorities?
> -- a categorisation / keyword system
> -- the ability to export RDF / RSS
> -- a better seaerch feature and easier to use booklists making system
> -- more ways to discover new books in other libraries

-- web of trust, were people can specify if they only want to lend items to 
friends, friends of friends, or x-degree friends
-- integration of TikiWiki

:-)

> - we would like to invest in public information infrastructures such as 
> Wikipedia as a way of referring to unique things. For example, each copy 
> of a specific book in all the dlp systems should be cross-linked to a 
> page on wikipedia. This would contribute to a public domain knowledge 
> infrastructure and expand it in interesting ways. 

It's a nice idea, but two things should be considered here:
a) Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, all articles only contain encyclopedic 
information (as opposed to other wikis about books, were people can discuss 
about the contents of the book, write reviews, etc.)
b) Wikipedia will always only contain articles about books if there is enough 
encyclopedic information about a book to warrant an article. This means only a 
small percentage of all books published will ever have an article in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia will never be the IMDb of books, but the Wikimedia Foundation might 
launch such a project in the future. There are developers working on a method to 
collect structured data in a wiki-way and implement it into MediaWiki 
(Wikipedia's wiki software):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata


> that was about it. the things we decided to do were:
> 
> - contact wikipedia and ask them about some kind of partnership arrangement

What should be arranged here?


Kurt