"One of the most impressive collections of #Hebraic and #Jewish #literature today is to be found in Washington’s #LibraryofCongress. Its collection of #Judaica, started in 1912 with a gift of some 10,000 #books from Jacob H. Schiff, now has 250,000 books, #periodicals, and #newspapers. To celebrate this collection, #Brandeis University has just issued Books Like Sapphires, written by Ann Brener, who highlights a selection of the books in the library, dividing the large format book into sections that cover the #Hebrew Bible, the literature of the sages, children’s books, and so forth."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-841808

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.