Sorry, by "Wikimedia instance" I of course meant "Mediawiki instance" :-) //Ed On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote: > I guess I'm confused about the expected deployment of the GLAM > Toolset. Is the idea that the plugins you develop will be deployed on > the commons? Or will the GLAM Toolset be deployed in a separate > Wikimedia instance, and then (somehow) the data will be migrated from > it to the commons? Or something else entirely? > > //Ed > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz(a)kl.nl> wrote: >> Hi Ed, >> >> The short answer is no. >> >> 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. >> >> Does this answer your question? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Maarten Zeinstra >> Project member of the Wiki GLAM Toolset project >> >> On Jan 24, 2013, at 3:42 , Ed Summers <ehs(a)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(a)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. 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