Mass uploading files from cultural institutions has always been a tailor made process. Most of it thanks to the work of Maarten Dammers/ Multichill. We are now seeing that more and more cultural institution want to add parts of their collection online which makes this original process not manageable. This is mainly because there are different standards used within WIkimedia Commons and within the cultural institution. This project tries to solve that project by giving an interface for these institution to upload data and map their internal standard to the standard that Wikimedia Commons uses. Also it gives these institutions the option to do it without much assistance from a Wikipedian, which speeds things up in the long run.

On Jan 24, 2013, at 3:42 , Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:

Is it not possible to upload metadata via the API?

On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Hi Ed,

Op 23-1-2013 11:14, Ed Summers schreef:

Thanks for the update. I was wondering why you need to develop this
new functionality as a mediawiki extension. Is there not enough
functionality in the commons Web API [1]? Or is the plan to create
plugins that will be deployed on commons.wikimedia.org?

It's not about uploading large amounts of images (that's easy), but it's about uploading it with metadata properly sorted out.
For this handling of metadata the extension will be the interface. Please take a look at the sprint demo's at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_toolset_project to get an idea.

Hope that that answers your question,

Maarten

//Ed

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Geer Oskam <Geer.Oskam@kb.nl> wrote:

Hi all,

As you might have heard Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia France
and Europeana are collaborating to provide a set of tools to get material
from GLAM institutions onto Wikimedia Commons. The Wiki GLAM Toolset has to
be created in a way that re-use can easily be tracked, and that Commons
materials can easily be integrated back into the collection of the original
GLAM. You can find more about our the Wiki GLAM Toolset on our project page.

Currently we are looking for developers who can help us in this process, if
you are interested please let us know. You can find more specific
information about our needs on our discussion page.

Thank you!

Geer Oskam
www.europeana.eu

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