Till Grallert (@tillgrallert@digitalcourage.social)

1y

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

Network graph of all Arabic Periodicals published before 1930 as rendered by the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint

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Map of all Arabic Periodicals published before 1930 as rendered by the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint

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1y

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.

#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH

Bubble chart of the 100 most popular titles of Arabic periodicals published before 1930 as rendered by the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint

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357d

My dive into #SPARQL and the #Wikidata 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 #Palestine (defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: https://w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to #Reasonator (https://reasonator.toolforge.org/), which provides an improved view of linked data available from Wikidata.

#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities

Map view of a SPARQL query to Wikidata for all periodicals published in Palestine before 1930. Showing how a newspaper from Haifa is selected for more information.

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