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Building a Wikibase Instance for African Literary Metadata: First insights

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AanOberst, UrsulaHarris, Ashleigh
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Zenodo
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The African Literary Metadata project (ALMEDA) aims to create a multilingual, linked data repository of African literary materials and their creators. This paper discusses the initial steps in building a Wikibase instance to increase the visibility and accessibility of the diverse African literary forms that often go uncatalogued. 

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African literaturemetadatalinked open dataWikibase

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