Greetings!
We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons, to help us plan our next steps for this project.
The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve information for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, using Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new project page (1).
The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and write file information, and to enable developers to build better tools to view, search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we propose to investigate this opportunity together through community discussions and small experiments. If these initial tests are successful, we would develop new tools and practices for structured data, then work with our communities to gradually migrate unstructured data into a machine-readable format over time.
The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this project together, in collaboration with many community volunteers active on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring roundtable discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks ago, to define a first proposal together (2).
We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment to read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you think, by answering some of the questions on its talk page (3).
We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday September 3 at 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live in this IRC office hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4).
Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows, data structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues. If you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, we invite you to sign up on directly on our hub page (5) -- and help start a sub-page for your workgroup.
We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming weeks. In previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most important contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in coming years. We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more resources to bring it to life, with your help.
We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented community members like you to take on this challenge, improve our infrastructure and provide a better experience for all our users.
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Structured Data team
(1) Structured Data Hub on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
(2) Structured Data Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf
(3) Structured Data Talk Page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
(4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions
(5) Structured Data Workgroups: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation
Greetings,
Please note that the time of the IRC chat was changed to 18:00 (UTC) i.e. one hour earlier than previously announced. ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=next&oldid=132667852 )
You can see how it converts to your timezone using this tool: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Structured+Data+IRC...
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings!
We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons, to help us plan our next steps for this project.
The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve information for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, using Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new project page (1).
The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and write file information, and to enable developers to build better tools to view, search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we propose to investigate this opportunity together through community discussions and small experiments. If these initial tests are successful, we would develop new tools and practices for structured data, then work with our communities to gradually migrate unstructured data into a machine-readable format over time.
The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this project together, in collaboration with many community volunteers active on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring roundtable discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks ago, to define a first proposal together (2).
We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment to read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you think, by answering some of the questions on its talk page (3).
We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday September 3 at 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live in this IRC office hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4).
Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows, data structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues. If you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, we invite you to sign up on directly on our hub page (5) -- and help start a sub-page for your workgroup.
We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming weeks. In previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most important contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in coming years. We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more resources to bring it to life, with your help.
We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented community members like you to take on this challenge, improve our infrastructure and provide a better experience for all our users.
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Structured Data team
(1) Structured Data Hub on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
(2) Structured Data Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf
(3) Structured Data Talk Page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
(4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions
(5) Structured Data Workgroups: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation
Hi folks,
As a reminder, we hope you can join our Structured Data Q&A chat on IRC tomorrow, Wed. Sep. 3 at 18:00 UTC: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions
Note that the chat starts one hour earlier than previously announced. To see how it converts to your timezone, use this tool: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Structured+Data+IRC...
Our Multimedia team and the Wikidata team will be on hand for this discussion, as well as some of the community volunteers who are spearheading this project with us, such as Multichill, TheDJ and others.
Even if you can’t join the chat, we encourage you to check the project overview on Commons and answer some of the questions on its talk page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
We also invite you to form small workgroups to investigate topics like workflows, data structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues. If you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, you are welcome to sign up on directly on our hub page.
We look forward to a productive discussions with many of you tomorrow.
Regards as ever,
Fabrice — for the Structured Data team
multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org