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Describing files on Structured Commons: problems and opportunities

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Describing files on Structured Commons: problems and opportunities
Wikimania 2019

In 2019, Wikimedia Commons is [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data undergoing a major update]: it is now possible to describe files on Wikimedia Commons with [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data multilingual, structured, machine-readable data from Wikidata]. Structured Data on Commons produces new challenges for the Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata communities: how to describe media files properly, how to model the metadata ('ontology') around them? At the moment of submitting this proposal (early June 2019), the communities have brainstormed data modelling and ontology [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Properties_table in an on-wiki properties table]. Wikimania 2019 in August is a good opportunity to gather and to look at the current status of data modelling, to pinpoint the most urgent challenges and to brainstorm paths forward.

Speakers: Sandra Fauconnier