inventaire

The Wikidata-federated open bibliographic database

The Inventaire project has two cores working in synergy:

A book sharing webapp, inviting everyone to make the inventory of their books, define what they want to do with it (giving, sharing, selling), as well as who should be able to see it (shared publicly, or only visible to your friends and groups).
An open data project aiming at building a CC0 Wikidata-centered database. It primarly aims to address the needs of the webapp, and is enriched by its users. More broadly it concretizes Inventaire mission: mapping resources with libre software and open knowledge, starting with books.

This page centralizes resources for people interested in this second core by presenting some way on how to contribute and re-use the bibliographic database

Contribute

To edit authors, series, works, or editions data, you first need to create an account, then you can look for desired entity from the search bar at the top, select the entity, and click on the pencil on the top right of the page. Or have a look at URLs: from any entity's page, add /edit to the URL to get to the data editor.

Examples:

if a work can be found at /entity/inv:0a68df5f187729a463e3b74ee80f0b1a, its editor will be at /entity/inv:0a68df5f187729a463e3b74ee80f0b1a/edit

See also:

Documentation on inventaire books data: data sources, data model, and more

API

Mimicking the Wikidata API data model, the Inventaire API lets you download both Wikidata and Inventaire entities in a simplified format. Notice that you can easily jump from an entity's page to the corresponding json data by adding .json at the end of the URL.

Example: /entity/inv:0a68df5f187729a463e3b74ee80f0b1a.json

SPARQL Query

Inventaire now has its own SPARQL Query interface! It's still somewhat experimental/unstable, but you can already play with it: query.inventaire.io

Dumps

Yeay, dumps!