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Wikidata
Wikidata, an open knowledge base, has a dedicated project to encode book metadata, WikiProject Books. The website lists all definitions of appropriate metadata categories based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Wikidata relies on Wikibase as
software that enables MediaWiki to store structured data or access data that is stored in a structured data repository. Source: Programmer's Guide to Wikibase
The Wikibase API is a RESTful web service, with demo apps and code snippets in Python, Javascript and PHP demonstrating how to use various modules of the MediaWiki Action API available on GitHub/Mediawiki.
The API endpoint is accessible via https://wikidata.org/w/api.php
Another relevant project is WikiProject Source Metadata.
The Thoth Wiki has been developed in the context of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project. Individual contributions to the wiki have been made by Tim Elfenbein, Rupert Gatti, Ross Higman, Brendan O'Connell, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Tobias Steiner and Hannah Hillen under the general editorship of Van Gerven Oei. All data are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.