I agree with this point considering that I am experiencing personally GLAMs
that can donate their huge datasets of metadata while the content is
protected by copyright because their digital assets are the metadata and
not the content itself.
I am speaking mainly about digital archives of media.
For this reason a wikidata-scientist is already a reality at least in
GLAMs. This is not the future but it is the current need.
Anyway it would be useful if among platform features, tools and processes
we may include also APIs or an improvement of APIs to facilitate the work
of the import of these data by these wikidata-scientists/WiR.
Regards
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The point where we are today with organizations hosting open data is
similar to our relationship with galleries, libraries, archives, and
museums before GLAM or Wikipedians in residence existed. Many discussions,
new precedents, tools, and processes were needed to reach the point where
we at today in GLAM, and there is still so much to do, but everybody agrees
that the effort is clearly worth.
Today we miss platform features, tools, and processes to visit (or receive
the visit) of organizations with large open datasets, hook onto their APIs,
and retrieve their interesting data. The World Bank is a potential good use
case: they provide many numbers used in infoboxes of articles of countries
which are updated manually in hundreds of Wikipedias (and in Wikidata),
they are actively interested in collaborating, and the Wikimedia Foundation
can contribute some of the "overhead" on partner relations and, if needed,
project management. With time, and if this pilot progresses well, Sylvia's
team and whoever wants to be involved could start knocking other doors. Who
knows, maybe the first generation of Wikidata-scientists in residence are
not that far off? :)
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