Hello all!
tl;dr Do you work for a cultural institution and have you contributed media
files from your collections to Wikimedia Commons? And/or are you interested
in crowdsourced metadata around your collections? Then consider filling in
this short survey.
Or are you a Wikimedia volunteer working on GLAM-Wiki projects? Then please
bring this survey to the attention of the GLAMs you work with! :-)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/…
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The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
A bit more context:
Many Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) upload media to
Wikimedia Commons. These media files help to enrich the experience of
Wikipedia articles and increase the reach of heritage collections. The
metadata of these media files are often augmented and enriched by the
volunteers of Wikimedia projects. These enrichments often do not find their
way back to the contributing GLAMs.
The Swedish National Heritage Board (www.raa.se), in collaboration with
museums in Sweden, are researching and prototyping a tool that makes it
easier to extract this enriched metadata. This questionnaire indexes the
use of third-party metadata in collection management systems in order to
determine the scope of the tool that is going to be developed.
The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to fill in. If you
have additional information or suggestions feel free to mail the researcher
(Maarten Zeinstra) at info(a)ip-squared.com.
*Privacy statement*
The information that you contribute to this questionnaire will only be used
for research purposes for the duration of the project. We will not keep or
distribute information about you or your institute unless you have given us
prior consent to do so.
This project is closely related to Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data). From early
2019, files on Wikimedia Commons can be enhanced with multilingual,
structured data from Wikidata (www.wikidata.org). The APIs of Wikimedia
Commons will become more refined as well, which makes it easier to feed
back improved metadata in a systematic way.
See project info from the Swedish Heritage Board:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons_Data_Roundtripping
Many thanks in advance for your help and input! :-)
With kind regards, Sandra
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Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
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Save the date for the 2019 LD4 Conference: May 10-11, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, at the Martin Conference Center<http://www.theconfcenter.hms.harvard.edu/> at Harvard Medical School. The LD4P initiative<http://www.ld4p.org/>, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is hosting this conference to bring together those who are passionate about the adoption of linked data in libraries.
We’re seeking …
[View More]volunteers to join the Program Committee and set the themes, goals, format, and content of the meeting, from the overall vision down to the details of the two-day agenda. Our beautiful venue accommodates up to 150 people, with flexibility for multiple simultaneous activities. The possibilities are wide open for the direction and nature of this meeting: What would be most valuable to you in a community meeting? How can this community gathering best advance the adoption of linked data in libraries? Join the Program Committee and shape an event you want to be part of!
To be on the Program Committee, you should plan on attending the conference in Boston on May 9 and 10, 2019, and be available for bi-weekly teleconference calls beginning in December. (Program Committee members will receive a stipend to offset the cost of attendance.)
Fill in this short form (https://goo.gl/forms/fEuYxOP4AkiV6dH93) by November 20 to join the Program Committee.
For those not joining the Program Committee, keep an eye out for a call for proposals and other announcements about the 2019 LD4 Conference!
Michelle Futornick (Stanford University) and Jason Kovari (Cornell University)
2019 LD4 Conference Co-Chairs
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Hello everyone!
This is a new community consultation for Structured Data on Commons that is
quite relevant for everyone who deals with copyright and licenses on
Wikimedia Commons.
Please take a look, and voice your opinion!
Thank you :-) Sandra
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From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 7:13 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] Structured data - copyright and licensing statements
designs
To: Wikimedia …
[View More]Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings,
New designs are up for structured copyright and licensing statements [1],
based on feedback from the first round of designs. Please take some time to
look over the new mockups and tell us what you think. How copyright and
licensing is displayed in structured data is extremely important, and the
development team needs to hear from you.
Thanks, enjoy your weekend.
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
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