The Swedish National Heritage Board has facilitated a project during the spring of 2019* where three museums piloted the ingestion of data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. A survey was carried out before the pilots with GLAMs globally aiming to identify technical, trust/institutional, and quality barriers to data ingestion. The result of this survey and complementary interviews has guided the pilots executed during late spring. Two of the pilots used Wikimedia Commons as a platform for targeted crowdsourcing campaigns. One campaign aimed to engage users in translations of image descriptions, while the other took advantage of Structured Data on Commons to invite users to add Depicts statements to images. The third pilot downloaded and ingested Wikidata authorities into their own collection management system. After the campaigns and the data acquisition each institution performed quality reviews about ingesting data into their collection management systems. Each pilot addressed a different data storage method in Wikimedia. One dealt with Wikitext, the second with Structured data on Commons and the third with Wikidata. This allowed us to choose the best strategies for access and tooling for each pilot.
Speakers: Albin Larsson