>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?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)
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