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The Israeli Film Archive (IFA) plans to release the data of their newsreels collection to Wikidata. The IFA holds a treasure trove of historical newsreels from the early 20th century until the mid 70’s, filmed mostly (but not only) in Mandatory Palestine, and later in the State of Israel. These 1,200 film reels comprise some of the earliest, rarest and most completed audiovisual documentation of the events and people who are a core part of Israel’s rich and challenging history.

The newsreels have been digitized, tagged and enriched with information such as geographical coordinates, people and events depicted, date or year, and so on. We plan to enrich Wikidata with all these great infmation.