MetaBelgica Milestone!

We analyzed more than one million person authority records from the Royal Library of Belgium and our partners —our first big deliverable! We standardized dates & places, enriching data with GeoNames. This helps with public domain checks & multilingual linking.

Next steps: detecting overlaps & integrating data across institutions.

Report: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15120909
Code: https://github.com/metaBelgica/person-data-analysis/ (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15120909)

Last week we participated at #dhbenelux2024 to gather feedback from researchers: if we offer authority data, which APIs do you need and which data fields are relevant for your Named Entity Linking use case? https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11045761 #MetaBelgica #NER #NEL

Today #KBR hosted the #PublicDomainDay event together with #meemoo and @wikimediafoundation Belgium. Many interesting talks! Good quality data is key to detect when something becomes public domain. With #MetaBelgica we aim to provide such high quality data.

Recently we met with our technical partner IDLab from the University of Ghent to discuss #MetaBelgica and next steps for setting up our #Wikibase instance @wbstakeholders @wikimediafoundation

What do "boom" and "arbre" have in common? They are both multilingual thesaurus terms for "tree", but they are also two different Belgian place names #dataCleaning

Discussing data integration for #MetaBelgica today at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (#kik-irpa)

Hello

we are four Belgian Federal Scientific Institutes that want to share FAIR data about Entities related to Belgian Cultural Heritage by the end of 2026.

Here you will find multilingual updates on our project!

More Info
https://www.kbr.be/en/projects/metabelgica/
https://github.com/metabelgica
https://zenodo.org/communities/metabelgica

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