From my very personal and (GLAMmy) point of you, it should be, at least,
a OAI-MPH (OAI-ORE?) complaint repository, who would harvest/contain metadata from Commons and Wikisource. It should import/export data in variuos forms and within various metadata schemes (e.g. Dublin Core).
It could be designed for llong-term preservation, adding archival metadata (and metadata schemes).
For the part of Wikidata as a repository of Open Data (Linked Open Data?) from Wikipedia, I give you the word.
Aubrey
2010/11/24 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
On 11/22/2010 10:24 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
In my opinion, the Wikimedia Foundation should very seriously look into
starting something like wikidata.
One major problem is that different people have very differing understanding of what "wikidata" should mean. It is an abstract good, similar to "world peace" or "democracy" -- or Wikimedia's "usability" project, that introduced slow and broken Javascript instead of actually increasing usability. With this background I would advise against starting a "wikidata" project.
What should be started is something smaller and more focused, that solves some actual problem. This is like asking for "freedom of the press" or "women's suffrage" rather than abstract "democracy".
So, which concrete, smaller ambitions could you list?
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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