Hi Arne, et. al.
I think the greatest benefit right now, in practical terms, is increasing
the discoverability through search and through the current category and
linking structured between Wikidata and Wikipedia (for example, interwiki
language links on the left-hand side of Wikipedia pages are increasingly
including Commons Categories from Wikidata). We don't have a huge amount of
evidence, that these things support access (and would welcome any examples
folks want to share, like Jos -- or if they have a tactic for examining
this data).
In the long term, the greatest benefit will be ease of migration to
Structured Data on Commons -- which has lots of discovery and arbitrary
query potential. Recently, I wrote a couple recommendations for Martin
Poulter, which, if done with GLAM collections now, I am imagining will help
a migration to Structured Data on Commons:
- Including as many descriptive metadata templates as you can in
existing Commons infoboxes (Institution templates, creator templates,
technique templates (basically every type of sub-template type listable at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork> ). These are
mapped almost 1-to-1 by a few folks on Commons, so should be fairly easy to
migrate long term.
- Ensuring that Commons categories are mapped one-to-one with how
Wikidata concepts are being used (depicts, vs topics related to an object),
and doing it on Wikidata with Property:P373 property.
- If items are described in Wikidata, adding as many fields as possible.
The Structured data on Commons team is still being assembled, and will be
doing research that builds on some initial research from the Wikidata team
before doing community consultations around design next-steps:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HeavyCommonsUserQualitativeRes
earch.pdf . I am not sure what the final shape of the project's impacts
will be/look like, but the more metadata that is consistently displayed
now, the easier it will be for the community or institution to take
advantage of the benefits of structured Commons later (such as easing
attribution and embedding of the mediafile in other sources, surfacing
media files in multilingual search, etc).
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Arne Wossink <wossink(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
Hi Jos,
Yes, those would be the kind of interaction that would be interesting to
see happening as a result of providing metadata to images.
Best,
Arne Wossink
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2017-05-16 15:31 GMT+02:00 Arne Wossink <wossink(a)wikimedia.nl>nl>:
Hi Reem,
Metadata, in this case, refers to the data from the information or
artwork (or other) template that's used when an image is uploaded to
Commons. So it's not the exif-data, but information about, for example,
who's the maker of a painting, when did he make it, what techniques did he
use. Take, for example, the data from this upload:
https://commons.wikime
dia.org/wiki/File:NL-HlmNHA_53004672_Kaaiman.tif
Best,
Arne Wossink
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2017-05-14 21:31 GMT+02:00 Jos Damen <josephcmdamen(a)gmail.com>om>:
After adding Category:People_being_vaccinated to
this file
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASC_Leiden_-_Co
utinho_Collection_-_G_07_-_Ziguinchor,_Senegal_-_Vaccination_-_1973.tiff
by User Hans Muller, it was picked up by User:Kopiersperre, who added:
Category:Jet_injectors and added the image to
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impfpistole
Other example:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASC_Leiden_
-_Coutinho_Collection_-_A_37_-_Surgery_in_Sara,_Guinea-Bissa
u_-_Suturing_the_wound_-_1974.tif
best regards,
Jos Damen
2017-05-13 15:44 GMT+02:00 Arne Wossink <wossink(a)wikimedia.nl>nl>:
Hi all,
As best practice we usually encourage GLAMs to provide as many metadata
as possible for media donations. However, providing these metadata and
"wikifying" them (for examply as part of an upload using Pattypan) can be
quite a bit of work, either for a Wikimedian or a GLAM volunteer/staff
member.
Do we have any case studies outlining immediate benefits of providing
more metadata? For example, does providing more metadata lead to better
uptake of images in articles on WP?
Best
Arne Wossink
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