This should have gone to you folk as well.
Long story short: developing structured metadata for Commons is starting in
the very earliest planning/discussion phases - not a line of code has yet
been written - and the community members driving the discussions with the
WMF Multimedia team and WMDE Wikidata team invite you to participate *from
the very start.*
Initial IRC office hours: Wednesday September 3 at 19:00 UTC
Initial reading material:
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons>
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>
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From: Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:48 AM
Subject: Structured Data on Commons
To: Multimedia Mailing List <multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings!
We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons, to
help us plan our next steps for this project.
The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve information
for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, using
Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new project page (1).
The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and
write file information, and to enable developers to build better tools to
view, search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we propose to
investigate this opportunity together through community discussions and
small experiments. If these initial tests are successful, we would develop
new tools and practices for structured data, then work with our communities
to gradually migrate unstructured data into a machine-readable format over
time.
The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this project
together, in collaboration with many community volunteers active on
Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring roundtable
discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks ago, to define a
first proposal together (2).
We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community
members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment to
read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you think, by
answering some of the questions on its talk page (3).
We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday September 3
at 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live in this IRC office
hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4).
Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows, data
structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues.
If you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, we invite
you to sign up on directly on our hub page (5) -- and help start a sub-page
for your workgroup.
We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming weeks. In
previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most important
contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in coming years.
We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more resources to bring
it to life, with your help.
We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented community
members like you to take on this challenge, improve our infrastructure and
provide a better experience for all our users.
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Structured Data team
(1) Structured Data Hub on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
(2) Structured Data Slides:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf
(3) Structured Data Talk Page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
(4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions
(5) Structured Data Workgroups:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Product
Wikimedia Foundation