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Welcome to Librarybase, the collaborative card catalog of everything.

Librarybase is a project to organize, refine, and distribute metadata, as a complement to other projects like Wikidata or OpenAlex. For more information about Librarybase:

Project:Principles: The motivations behind the project
Project:Scope: What is accepted for inclusion on this wiki
Project:Consensus: How decisions are made here

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-Welcome to '''Librarybase''', the collaborative card catalog of everything.
+Welcome to '''Librarybase, the collaborative card catalog of everything'''.
-Librarybase is a project to organize, refine, and distribute metadata, as a complement to other projects like [[Item:Q2|Wikidata]] or [[Item:Q253|OpenAlex]]. The motivations behind the project are further described at [[Project:Principles]].
+Librarybase is a project to organize, refine, and distribute metadata, as a complement to other projects like [[Item:Q2|Wikidata]] or [[Item:Q253|OpenAlex]]. For more information about Librarybase:
-==Current projects==
+* [[Project:Principles]]: The motivations behind the project
-===Classes and roles===
+* [[Project:Scope]]: What is accepted for inclusion on this wiki
-Items are organized by class using [[Property:P19]], with [[Item:Q410]] as the root class item. The current list of classes is available at [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Item:Q410]].
+* [[Project:Consensus]]: How decisions are made here
+{{cwbn}}
-This differs from Wikidata's "instance of" and "subclass of" properties in that items are assigned classes according to a controlled vocabulary. This can be used instead of or in conjunction with those properties. One major departure from Wikidata is the concept of the [[Item:Q413|single-edition work]], used to avoid creating separate work and edition items when there is no real reason to.
-One subclass is "role," which a member of a class can have. The current list of roles is available at [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Item:Q422]].