#arabicperiodicals — Public Fediverse posts

I finally managed to write up some of the thoughts that went into contributing the bibliographic information on Arabic periodicals and their known holdings to #Wikidata. I have published a preprint to Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14112648. Feel free to share and to comment under this post.

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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.

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Dear #BookHistory hive-mind, I just came across a weird phenomenon: stamps on newspapers underneath (!) the printed text. The title in question is the magazine/ journal *al-Maḥabba* (المحبة), published in #Beirut from 1899 onwards (OCLC: 902810773). I have not seen this in other papers from the period and region.
Currently I can only speculate as to the background to this practice. Since nobody bothered to remove the stamps before printing these might have been there to document some status of the printing paper.
- stamp duty on paper?
- officially supplied paper?

Does anyone have an idea?

Sample images can be found at https://images.eap.bl.uk/EAP119/EAP119_1_7_48/768.jp2/full/800,/0/color.jpg or https://images.eap.bl.uk/EAP119/EAP119_1_7_40/640.jp2/full/2000,/0/color.jpg

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We have also a much larger dataset on holdings based on data from HathiTrust, German union catalogues, and AUB library. I haven't found the time to turn it into an actual website / catalogue (my original was to move most data to Wikidata for others to reference and re-use). You can find this dataset at https://github.com/OpenArabicPE/authority-files/blob/master/data/tei/bibliography_OpenArabicPE-periodicals.TEIP5.xml

It would be great to be able to use Worldcat data but their API is famously inaccessible to not-so-wealthy institutions.

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