Hello all!

tl;dr Do you work for a cultural institution and have you contributed media files from your collections to Wikimedia Commons? And/or are you interested in crowdsourced metadata around your collections? Then consider filling in this short survey.

Or are you a Wikimedia volunteer working on GLAM-Wiki projects? Then please bring this survey to the attention of the GLAMs you work with! :-)

The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

A bit more context:

Many Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) upload media to Wikimedia Commons. These media files help to enrich the experience of Wikipedia articles and increase the reach of heritage collections. The metadata of these media files are often augmented and enriched by the volunteers of Wikimedia projects. These enrichments often do not find their way back to the contributing GLAMs.

The Swedish National Heritage Board (www.raa.se), in collaboration with museums in Sweden, are researching and prototyping a tool that makes it easier to extract this enriched metadata. This questionnaire indexes the use of third-party metadata in collection management systems in order to determine the scope of the tool that is going to be developed. 

The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to fill in. If you have additional information or suggestions feel free to mail the researcher (Maarten Zeinstra) at info@ip-squared.com.

*Privacy statement*

The information that you contribute to this questionnaire will only be used for research purposes for the duration of the project. We will not keep or distribute information about you or your institute unless you have given us prior consent to do so.

This project is closely related to Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data). From early 2019, files on Wikimedia Commons can be enhanced with multilingual, structured data from Wikidata (www.wikidata.org). The APIs of Wikimedia Commons will become more refined as well, which makes it easier to feed back improved metadata in a systematic way.

See project info from the Swedish Heritage Board: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons_Data_Roundtripping

Many thanks in advance for your help and input! :-)

With kind regards, Sandra