Structured Commonsand Wikidata!
WikidataCon, 29 Oct 2017Sandra Fauconnier
1 - own work2 - from other platforms3 - uploads by partners
Interior of the Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque in the Shiraz district of Gowad-e-Arabān, Iran. Photo CC BY-SA 4.0 by Diego Delso (A), delso.photo. A featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
October: Ten Days That Shook The World, a 1928 film by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein about the 1917 October Revolution. Public Domain. Video uploaded from YouTube to Commons by Racconish.
Swine skeleton, after technique of bone maceration, on display at the University of São Paulo Museum of Veterinary Anatomy. CC BY-SA 4.0. Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP / Wagner Souza e Silva; uploaded as part of a partnership between the University of São Paulo Museum of Veterinary Anatomy, the RIDC NeuroMat and the Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil.
based on MediaWiki
categories
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Films
Search
Structured Data on Commons
converts metadata on Commons to a structured & machine-readable formatmaking Commons files easier to view, search, edit, organize and re-use, in many languages
Lea Lacroix, CC BY-SA 4.0
October: Ten Days That Shook The World, a 1928 film by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein about the 1917 October Revolution. Public Domain. Video uploaded from YouTube to Commons by Racconish.
October: Ten Days That Shook The World, a 1928 film by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein about the 1917 October Revolution. Public Domain. Video uploaded from YouTube to Commons by Racconish.
Reusable http://zone47.com/crotos/
WIKIBASE
SEARCH
TOOLS APIs
GLAMs
COMPANIES
RESEARCHERS
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
COMMUNITY
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data/
2017-2019Structured Data on Commons
program
2017-2019Year 1 - InfrastructureYear 2 - IntegrationYear 3 - Engagement
Now
● Technology groundwork○ MediaInfo entities○ Federation○ Multi-content revision
● Design research (interviews, surveys)
○ Commons contributors○ GLAM people
● Metrics baselines● First design sketches● Starting community
engagement
Demo: http://structured-commons.wmflabs.org/ and http://federated-wikidata.wmflabs.org/
Federation
Multi-Content Revisions
Excerpts from presentation by Daniel Kinzler, Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikimedia Commons
MediaWiki Wikibase Wikidata
File name
Resolution
Categories
Wikitext templates
Uploader user page
File ID (M12345678)
Title / Caption
Description text (string)
EXIF metadata (?)
Non-notable contributors (smart URI)
Notable contributors
Copyright and licensing
Things "depicted"
Dates (datatype date/time)
Geo location (datatype coordinate)
Notable contributors (items/properties)
Copyright, licensing (items/properties)
Things "depicted" (items/properties)
Dates (properties)
Geo location (properties)
Structured Commons - What lives where?(sample, doesn’t cover everything)
Smart URI (new type of link to Wikimedia user page, Flickr user page, ...)
Uses Wikidata items/properties via federation
You will see the things in this blue box on Commons Some properties and items pulled from Wikidata
Upcoming
● A first feature○ Multilingual captions○ June 2018?
● Full structured data rollout● New data modelling needed
by Commons and Wikidata communities
○ What is depicted in media○ Contributors○ Copyright and licensing (2nd half of 2018?)
● Search● Upload
CC by SA 4.0, Jeff Elder
The Valley Of Pain
Gartner Research's Hype Cycle diagram, by Jeremy Kemp, CC BY-SAEugène Delacroix, Ramasseuses de coquillages surprises par la marée, 1852, Public Domain
Wikidata Loves Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 by Christof Pins (WMDE)Swans in love in Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, CC BY-SA 4.0 by Ntshzh
Welcoming and helping newcomers
How to anticipate this in a good way?
CC by SA 4.0, Zachary McCune
Love padlocks on the Butchers' Bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia. CC BY-SA, by Petar Milošević
Support for tool developers
Caravaggio: Boy Bitten by a Lizard, ca. 1593-94. London, National Gallery. Public domain.
Possibly new/interesting challenges...(speculative and non-exhaustive)
Proper moderation of data (watchlists…)
Conflict resolution between Commons and Wikidata communities
Wikidata's CC0 and Commons' CC-BY-SA for metadata
A wave of new property proposals?
Modelling copyright and licensing
What about references on structured Commons?
Longer text descriptions / captions combined with granular structured data
Help with data conversion
Tools & elbow grease :-)
Let’s do pilots
And help imagine...all the awesome things we will be able to do with
structured data on Commons!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Community_focus_group
Get involved !● Sign up to receive the newsletter● Watch and chat on the talk page● Join the community focus group● Watch the phabricator board● Email us!
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