Thanks for the advice, Lydia, we'll see what we can do. Meanwhile, info about the task force timing will be welcome. Or at least a notice, when it's about to close...
Cheers,
Antoine
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Antoine Isaac aisaac@few.vu.nl wrote:
Hi Lydia (and congrats!!)
Thanks!
I don't remember the specifics of the Commons issue, I was not really in it (I cc my colleague David Haskiya to correct me if I'm writing too much crap). But basically I think it was because the templates were not much open for additions of data fields.
Which might be related to the issue Daniel mentioned also in [1]: that data about artworks, creators etc fit well on Wikidata but data about digital files fit better on Commons. In the GLAMWiki project now, somehow everything has to be packed together in the existing Commons template.
Ok I fear this needs someone to help you then who has more knowledge about Commons. There are a few people on this list who can probably chime in.
Now, if there are alternatives that allow us (or more precisely, whoever decides to upload an object mediated by Europeana into Commons) to send more complete descriptive data in Wikidata that somehow ends up being connected to the media data in Commons, that would be good.
I'm not really into this--I assume that you guys are much closer to the thing ;-)
Meanwhile, David and I have seen that you have work in progress in task forces on art works [2,3]. If we find the time Europeana could try to contribute to this. It can ensure we can feed more data into Commons, when the time has come.
I would indeed start on the discussion page there. The people there are interested in the topic and knowledgeable about Wikidata. Go for it!
But: we are really tight on resources this day, and it's quite unclear, what the timing is, for the discussion in this task force!
Activity really varies between the task forces. I don't know how it is with this one unfortunately.
Cheers Lydia