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.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh #LinkedOpenData
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.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh
I recently wrote a blog post over at the Lausanne Project, about the hostile takeover of #Madeira's textile industries by Syrian emigre capital from New York City.
Arriving to Funchal in the middle of #WWI, Syrian American textile firms bought up the island's hand embroideries industry from German manufacturers who were being deported from the island.
The piece comes from my emerging book project on Syrian labor, capital, and the textile industries of the Arab Atlantic.
