Wikidata talk:WikiProject BHL

Catalogues

The BHL includes a collection of examples of almost 40,000 seed and nursery catalogues.

I haven't been entirely sure how to represent items of these kinds in Wikidata, so I have created the following classes:

• edition of commercial catalogue (Q55089312) -- 8231 instances
• commercial catalogue series (Q55089306) -- 432 instances
• Index Seminum (Q55093334) -- 40 instances

the first being a subclass of version, edition or translation (Q3331189) and containing cases where the BHL title only contains a single BHL item, the other two being subclasses of periodical (Q1002697), where the BHL has more than one item under the particular title.

I am not 100% sure that this is right: Are these periodicals? Are they works? An 'edition' would normally be a version of a work, not a periodical. On the other hand, they appear with regular frequency, similar to a periodical. But then the content (or at least much of the content) is (often) very similar, from iteration to iteration -- more like an edition of a single work, than an instance of a series of works.

That's how I've left it for the moment. However, I have no particularly strong attachment to either the naming of the items, or the relationships on them, if anyone has better ideas for them. Jheald (talk) 09:45, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

More queries

• BHL titles that largest number of items are published in (P1433) : tinyurl.com/y8x7maqa (doesn't yet consider date ranges) Jheald (talk) 00:00, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

now taking into account date ranges, where available: tinyurl.com/ybdfjd48 Jheald (talk) 00:04, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Many files are now on Commons

Please note Wikidata:Bot_requests#Create_items_for_books_at_Commons. --- Jura 06:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)