User:Spinster/GLAM files and structured data

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Data about the creative work vs data about the file

(it's even more complicated, FRBR)

all creative works should have a Wikidata item?

Data duplication?

Is it problematic if we just 'let things go' and treat Commons like a big messy tagging system?

Two extreme scenarios Commons as a 'fully free Flickr' vs Commons as a 'crowdsourced platform with very precise metadata modeling'?

Simple examples, to help the thought process

Sculpture

Painting