Hello everyone,
One of the major additions of structured data to Wikimedia Commons is arriving later this week: Depicts statements! See Keegan's message below for more details and links.
With regards to visual arts, library and archival documents, and specifically faithful representations of two-dimensional works and documents: I would advise *not* to use the Depicts statement there, but to wait for other statements to become available on Wikimedia Commons in several weeks. A separate property for that purpose has been created on Wikidata some time ago: P6243 (digital representation of) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6243 - and it will only be possible to use that in several weeks. Depicts is probably appropriate for other cases though: in the case of photographs of buildings, people, objects... These are only rough first pointers. Modelling structured data on Commons, and establishing best practices in that area, is - just like on Wikidata - up to the community.
Many greetings! Sandra
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Greetings,
(This message is also posted at the Commons Village Pump, and the SDC talk page)
The Structured Data on Commons [0] team plans to release support for depicts statements this week, on Thursday, 18 April. The community's testing over the past several weeks [1] helped identify and fix issues before launch, and the development team spent time setting up extensive internal testing to make sure the release goes as well as possible.
This release is very simple, with only the most basic depicts statements available. There is a significant amount of technological change happening with this project, and this release contains a lot of background change that the team needs to make sure works fine live on Commons before adding further support. More parts to depicts statements, and other statements, will be released within the next few weeks.
A page for depicts has been set up at Commons:Depicts [2] As I can't actually write instructive Commons policy or guidelines, I encourage those who have tried out simple depicts tagging add a few lines to the page suggesting proper use of the tool. I also encourage the use to be conservative at first, as we wait for more advanced features within the coming month or two as additional statement support goes live.
I'll keep the community updated as the plans progress throughout the week, the team will know better within the next day or two if things are definitely okay to proceed with release.
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feed... 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts