Hello Kavitha, To show books in the catalogue tool, all you need to do is to strictly follow the data model described at WikiProject Books of Wikidata and enrich the bibliographical data according to it. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books
The tool will handle the rest and show books automatically. Regards, Bodhisattwa On Sun, Sep 14, 2025, 9:00 PM Kavitha Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bodhi, > > Hope, you are doing well. > Is there any possibility of having a one-to-one Google Meet to know more > about the digital library catalogue and requirements to add books to the > Wikisource app? > > Thank you > > Regards, > Kavitha > > > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM Bodhisattwa <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello Wikisourcerers, >> >> I would like to present a digital library catalogue built for Wikisource >> named Sangkalak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123617697> (in Bangla >> সংকলক), which you can find here - https://sangkalak.toolforge.org >> . This tool was primarily built for Bangla Wikisource back in 2023 as a >> Wikidata's >> birthday gift >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Presents> and >> is widely used in that project since then. It was previously presented at >> the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikisource_and_Wikidata:_when_two_cool_kids_play_together!> >> and Wikisource Conference 2025 >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025/Submissions/Wikidata_and_Bangla_Wikisource:_When_two_cool_kids_play_together!>. >> After a presentation at the recent Wikidata and sister projects >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects> online >> event, it was decided to make this tool available for other languages >> Wikisources as well and hence it can be used by any language Wikisource >> communities from now, if they wish. However, as it was primarily built for >> the Bangla community, the default interface language shall be Bangla. >> >> You can search the books using 5 parameters like title, author, >> translator, editor and publisher using 4 functions i.e. contains, exact >> match, starts with and ends with along with and/or operators. You can query >> as many times as possible using these parameters, functions and operators >> by simply adding new lines. After querying for results, you can sub-filter >> the results again for authors, translators, editors, publishers, places of >> publication, dates of publication, forms, genres and main subjects at the >> left sidebar. The tool provides the option to get permanent links, so that >> you can use them on Wikisource and elsewhere. The tool can be accessed from >> mobile also. >> >> The tool is dependent on Wikidata based query and strictly follows the >> FRBR data model described at Wikidata:Books >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books>. So, if any >> Wikisource community is correctly storing the descriptive metadata on >> Wikidata following this page, their books can be searched in this >> catalogue. Please note that, if the data model is not followed properly on >> Wikidata, the books may not come in results, for which you can resolve >> constraint violations in those relevant items, as necessary. >> >> The tool only queries for those items which use P1957 >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957>. If any item has a >> sitelink to Wikisource, the tool links to the corresponding Wikisource main >> namespace and gives options to export the books with PDF, Mobi and Epub >> formats using the WS-export tool. If the sitelinks have proofread and >> validated badges, it displays them. If the item does not have a sitelink to >> Wikisource, it links to the index namespaces. The tool also displays QR >> codes for mobile users. Support for OPDS >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_Distribution_System> is >> underway. >> >> The interface languages of the tool are currently Bangla and English. >> However, if you want this tool to be available in your language, you can >> translate the strings in the json file attached below, save it and send it >> back to us, so that we can include them in the code. >> >> I would like to specially thank Mahir Morshed who has been developing >> this tool in his volunteer capacity. >> >> Regards, >> Bodhisattwa >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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