Heads-up to API developers and to deployment reviewers.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2013-January/thread.html#310 is the full discussion thread.
-Sumana
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [GLAM] Wiki GLAM Toolset project (GLAM Digest, Vol 18, Issue 11) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:47:54 +0100 From: Maarten Zeinstra mz@kl.nl Reply-To: glam@lists.wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] glam@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi Ed,
This is as of yet unsure.
We are now developing on Wikimedia labs and use the architecture of an extension. This extension will either keep on running on WIkimediaLabs and use Commons' API to upload materials or run as an extension on Wikimedia Commons. Our team is aiming for the latter. However this is something that the sysadmins of Commons need to approve. This also a reason why we are looking for more eyes on the project. To ensure the quality of our code and avoid any possible security risks.
Does this answer your question?
Cheers,
Maarten
On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:24 , Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
Sorry, by "Wikimedia instance" I of course meant "Mediawiki instance" :-)
//Ed
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
I guess I'm confused about the expected deployment of the GLAM Toolset. Is the idea that the plugins you develop will be deployed on the commons? Or will the GLAM Toolset be deployed in a separate Wikimedia instance, and then (somehow) the data will be migrated from it to the commons? Or something else entirely?
//Ed
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Maarten Zeinstra mz@kl.nl wrote:
Hi Ed,
The short answer is no.
Mass uploading files from cultural institutions has always been a tailor made process. Most of it thanks to the work of Maarten Dammers/ Multichill. We are now seeing that more and more cultural institution want to add parts of their collection online which makes this original process not manageable. This is mainly because there are different standards used within WIkimedia Commons and within the cultural institution. This project tries to solve that project by giving an interface for these institution to upload data and map their internal standard to the standard that Wikimedia Commons uses. Also it gives these institutions the option to do it without much assistance from a Wikipedian, which speeds things up in the long run.
Does this answer your question?
Cheers,
Maarten Zeinstra Project member of the Wiki GLAM Toolset project
On Jan 24, 2013, at 3:42 , Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
Is it not possible to upload metadata via the API?
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Hi Ed,
Op 23-1-2013 11:14, Ed Summers schreef:
Thanks for the update. I was wondering why you need to develop this new functionality as a mediawiki extension. Is there not enough functionality in the commons Web API [1]? Or is the plan to create plugins that will be deployed on commons.wikimedia.org?
It's not about uploading large amounts of images (that's easy), but it's about uploading it with metadata properly sorted out. For this handling of metadata the extension will be the interface. Please take a look at the sprint demo's at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_toolset_project to get an idea.
Hope that that answers your question,
Maarten
//Ed
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Geer Oskam Geer.Oskam@kb.nl wrote:
Hi all,
As you might have heard Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia France and Europeana are collaborating to provide a set of tools to get material from GLAM institutions onto Wikimedia Commons. The Wiki GLAM Toolset has to be created in a way that re-use can easily be tracked, and that Commons materials can easily be integrated back into the collection of the original GLAM. You can find more about our the Wiki GLAM Toolset on our project page.
Currently we are looking for developers who can help us in this process, if you are interested please let us know. You can find more specific information about our needs on our discussion page.
Thank you!
Geer Oskam www.europeana.eu
Phone: +31 (0)70 31 40 972 Email: geer.oskam@kb.nl Skype: GeerOskam
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