PhiloBiblon and the Wiki World

After a brief review of the technological changes in PhiloBiblon since 1987, there follows a description of the current project, PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept. The current rigid structure, with its ten relational tables and almost 1,300 data fields, is abandoned in favor of a much more flexible structure of triples, records based on a series of statements of the type Entity + Property + Entity, using the system of Wikidata, in which two entities Q are linked by a property P, e.g., Santillana (Q2877) writes (P50) the Comedieta de Ponza (Q390408).

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After reviewing the technological changes in PhiloBiblon since 1987, this article describes the current project, PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept. The current rigid structure of ten relational tables and almost 1,300 data fields is abandoned in favor of a more flexible structure of triples based on the Entity + Property + Entity statements, using the system of Wikidata.