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 projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (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.

Till Grallert

@tillgrallert@digitalcourage.social

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: w.wiki/9nxE.

TL;DR: Reform (الاصلاح), Liberty (الحرية), The Nation (الوطن), The Morning (الصباح), Education (المعارف) take the crown.

April 18, 2024 at 12:05:50 PM

My dive into

and the environment continues and I just discovered some of the wonderful tools hosted on toolforge.org/.

Here is a map of all periodicals published in

(defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to (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 query-chest.toolforge.org/.

This is amazing!

It has always been 1 of my pipe-dreams to do something similar for published/digitized Arabic/Islamic texts. The folks at openiti.org/ have already created metadata for Arabic texts, now it just needs someone smart/willing to transform that metadata into visualizations/graphs 😉

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