I'm at the Dev8D conference today: it has programmers, hackers and others from the academic sector working together on all sorts of projects.

On Tuesday, they had an event as part of it called Picture This: http://wiki.2011.dev8d.org/w/Picture_This

(Yes, it's a MediaWiki.)

It's a project to help universities improve and manage collections of image metadata.

This may be of interest for developers and outreach people. Wikimedia *does* have that collection of 8 million freely licensed images and experience of managing large quantities of user-created metadata after all. ;-)

When universities talk of having CDs full of images, that sounds like a potential outreach opportunity. Universities should be able to learn procedures for posting on Commons, avoiding copyvios and so on. Plus reuse on WP is an obvious educational benefit for such images.