Measuring the literary field and creative works: the case of world literary canon according to Wikipedia and Wikidata

Abstract

Presentation at the International Workshop | Berlin, 10-11th october 2023. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies, organized by EXC 2020 TEMPORAL COMMUNITIES of Freie Universität Berlin. This ongoing research project aims to verify the use of Wikidata and Wikipedia as a source to identify a universal literary canon in pursuit of a good enough answer to the question of how many books could be considered as an all-times global literary canon and, given this quantity, which titles should be included.