Let me expand on what Alex says with two examples
of what's great about
metadata specifically about how ti integrates with Wikidata:
1) You can get information about art in general. Have you read
? There is a map
in the middle of the blog post that shows where notable works of art are
from, and it was generated from metadata that had been imported to
Wikidata.
2) Metadata puts your art into Wikipedia articles. A number of the
Wikipedias are using Wikidata-aware infobox templates, which means that
when Wikidata has an entry about the artwork, then the artwork or details
about it can instantly appear at any Wikipedia that pulls metadata from
Wikidata. Look at the infobox at
Everything in that box at the moment is pulled from Wikidata, from the
image to the name of the art museum that holds it. The article itself only
contains {{Infobox Art}}.
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:09 AM Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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 ). 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:HeavyCommonsUserQualitativeResearch…
. 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.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NL-HlmNHA_53004672_Kaaiman.tif
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Arne Wossink
>>
>> Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
>>
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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_-_Coutinho_Collection_-_…
>>> 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_-_…
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
>>>>
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