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I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all published before 1930 and their editors to : 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 , and the German have not been pushed yet.
I'm rather new to SPARQL and equal parts smitten by the power of built-in visualisations and frustrated by the state of examples and documentation of more complex queries for those of us not overtly familiar with with other query languages.
Anyhow, if you are interested in the most popular titles of Arabic periodicals until 1930, here they are: https://w.wiki/9nxE.
TL;DR: Reform (الاصلاح), Liberty (الحرية), The Nation (الوطن), The Morning (الصباح), Education (المعارف) take the crown.
My dive into and the environment continues and I just discovered some of the wonderful tools hosted on https://toolforge.org/.
Here is a map of all periodicals published in (defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: https://w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to (https://reasonator.toolforge.org/), which provides an improved view of linked data available from Wikidata.
Also of relevance to the crowd: 's link shortener has a hard-limit of 2000 characters. If your query contains non-ASCII symbols, the resulting URL encoding of these characters quickly breaches that limit. The current workaround is using another link shortener or the Query Chest at https://query-chest.toolforge.org/.
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 . I have published a preprint to Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14112648. Feel free to share and to comment under this post.
