Commons:Structured data/WMSE white paper on Structured Data on Commons
Introduction
In a nutshell
- In Case study 1 we write about our work with Wiki Loves Monuments photos.
- In Case study 2 we write about our work with photos from the UNESCO Archives.
- In Case Study 3 we write about our work with audio files from Musikverket.
- In Case Study 4 we write about our work with digitized articles.
- In the final section, we address some particular challenges we encountered with regards to SDC tools and workflows.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, Wikimedia Sverige has been working on the project Tools for Partnerships, laying the groundwork for a more robust, flexible and sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Following the development and exploring the possibilities of Structured Data on Commons has been an important part of this work. We have collected our experiences from working with SDC in the following case studies. Their aim is to both present what we have achieved and hopefully inspire and help the community with continued work in this area.
As of June 2021, only 5 million out of the 74 million Commons files have a Depicts statement – which is possibly the most important statement to add, as it makes it easier to search for files in a flexible and multilingual way. At the same time, while the community has developed a number of bots and scripts to convert existing information to structured data statements, depicts statements are hard to mass add in this way; it usually requires an individual's judgement. So, the more users get involved, the faster we can achieve our dream of a well-described and structured file database.
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