Fabrice Florin, the WMF's head of Multimedia has just pointed me to an
interesting meeting that will be taking place at the Hackathon of Wikimania:
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Structured_Data
*Structured Data *The Multimedia and Wikidata teams
will host a
roundtable discussion on our new Structured Data project
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Structured_Data>, to implement
machine-readable data for storing information about images and media files
on Wikimedia Commons. We plan to develop this project together in fall 2014
and winter 2015, and it is likely to have a major impact on all aspects of
multimedia usage, from viewing to uploads, editing, curation and using
files on articles. We welcome the participation of all users familiar with
using multimedia on Commons and other Wikimedia sites.
I think this sounds very much like the kind of thing that users of the
GLAMwikiToolset (who are attending Wikimania) would be interested in
knowing about - especially in the context of any future development in this
field that will help bring WIkimedia Commons and Wikidata closer together.
I'm sure this also fits well with the scope of Europeana's strategic
interests too.
You can sign up at the link above (no specific time give just yet).
Sincerely,
-Liam
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata