Dear all,

The ISA Tool is a crowdsourcing tool used on Wikimedia Commons to add “depicts” statements to the metadata, thus describing the content of media files in form of structured data that refer to concepts on Wikidata and can be queried as linked open data.

On 12 December, from 16:00 to 17:30 CET, we are holding a workshop where we will present the enhanced version of the ISA Tool and discuss what constitutes “good tagging” of images.

The enhanced version of the ISA Tool that contains recommendations from algorithms can be found here: https://isa-dev.toolforge.org

I would encourage you to give it a try!

Starting point for our discussions around tagging rules and recommendations are the following draft guidelines: Commons:Depiction guidelines

You’ll find a detailed description of the workshop as well as the ZOOM link on the following page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool/Image_to_Concept#ISA_Workshop_-_Dec_12th

I would strongly encourage anybody with some prior experience with Wikimedia Commons and/or the description of media files in heritage collections to take part in the workshop.

Warm regards,

Beat