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Here are the top data services I'd love to see come to the fediverse next year:

- OpenLibrary. openlibrary.org/ . A great collection of books, movies, audio, other.
- OpenStreetMap. openstreetmap.org/ We need a good `Place` vocabulary, and OSM has a great one.
- MusicBrainz. musicbrainz.org/ A great way to represent `Audio` objects cross-service. The best music encyclopedia on the planet.
- Wikidata. wikidata.org/wiki/Main_Page For, well, everything else.

openlibrary.orgWelcome to Open Library | Open LibraryOpen Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Brendan Jones

@evan What sort of use cases would you see these having? Curious what you have in mind.

@Brendanjones OSM for geo-social applications: `Arrive`, `Leave`, `Travel` activities, plus the `location` element of other activities or content objects.

MB and OL for media experience activities like `Listen`, `View`, `Read`. So, `Evan read Doppelganger` or `Evan listened to A Little Respect by Erasure`.

Wikidata for these and, like, a million other uses.