Two thoughts directly to this: 

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Gnangarra <gnangarra@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd be more concern that the game throws up very generic and vague descriptions like, person, ship, cat, dog, tree, flowers, street. Which in itself might seem helpful but may not even highlight the important aspect.  
Pushing images into narrower, but still generic, topic areas allows folks who know more about, for example, ships or dog species or whatever, to narrow the topic into something specific. We already do this in many ways within the way folks use the category system on Commons -- it could be done with structured data as well. 

We would also want some type of confidence factor, I would think, especially if we want the tool to appeal to newer folks in the community -- with less depth of experience working in our information structure. Zooniverse and other similar visual-identification crowdsourcing projects, usually have 2-3 volunteers confirm something before adding it directly to the record.

 
  • I would hope many of the GLAMs have embedded keywords in the meta data/camera info which could be extracted like co-ords are.
You would be surprised at how bad the metadata is in most collections -- only the most high profile collections will have good metadata (and one perceived benefit of sharing GLAM content in public venues is the chance to enrich metadata, by discovering details about the objects, that previously the staff didn't know how to recognize). Wikimedia projects are really good places to get mildly obscure collections (such as archival photos, or under-researched museum objects) into the context of Wikimedia content. Moreover, it's really hard to assess how to map these metadata concepts to Wikimedia categories.  We actually saw this come up again and again in the GLAM stakeholder research for commons:  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions

 

On 7 June 2018 at 02:07, Alex Stinson via Commons-l <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey Yaroslav and Asaf, 

From the SDC team perspective, I think it would definitely be preferable for such a tool to include/anticipate the need for structured data on Commons, or default to filling in Depicts and/or other structure data fields. Building more tools which generate categories by default would definitely be a bit counter-productive (and hard on multilingual contributors). One option, might be designing such a tool to work with Artworks and other unique objects (like photographs) already on Wikidata, and then have it prepared to hook up with the  Wikibase/Structured data features that will go live on Commons in the fall.

Cheers, 

Alex



On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Absolutely; I wanted to know if such a tool perhaps already exists.  If one
does not, then definitely, if we develop a tool, it should look to the
future and be based on Structured Data on Commons already!

   A.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:54 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it is pretty similar to what we have built in Wikidata, Do
> Structured Commons folks want to comment?
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi, folks.
> >
> > It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images donated
> > en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X
> collection"
> > or "Files donated by X", i.e. essentially uncategorized by content.
> >
> > This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and
> > re-use.  But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories
> > (thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy.
> >
> > I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would
> let a
> > volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a category (from a pre-fed
> list
> > of massive categories of donated files) and show one photo from the
> > category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization
> by
> > content), and let the volunteer type (with auto-complete, like HotCat)
> some
> > appropriate categories and hit Save, and the categories would be added,
> and
> > the next file shown.
> >
> > (Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where
> > volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous volunteers'
> > categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only
> take
> > place after 2 (or N) users approved the categories.  I'm not at all sure
> > this is needed, and I think we can start without it and see how it goes.)
> >
> > So, does something like this exist?  If not, who wants to build it? :)
> >
> >    A.
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