Hi everyone!
Next Monday and Tuesday, we have one more GLAM & Culture office hours by
the WMF GLAM team. These ones will be about Structured Data on Commons.
There will be a meeting on *Monday, 26 April, 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm UTC*,
followed by another on *Tuesday, 27 April, 11.00 am - 12.00 pm UTC*.
On the first day, Carly Bogen, the Foundation's Program Manager for
Structured Data, will talk about the new Media Search, Image
Recommendations, and provide updates on the Structured Data Across
Wikimedia project. Jennie Choi, General Manager of Collection Information
for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will also present her process of batch
uploading Structured Data on Commons.
On the second day, John Sampson Tiberius Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence
at UNESCO, and Alicia Fagerving, Developer at Wikimedia Sverige (WMSE),
will share Wikimedia Sweden's plans with Structured Data, GLAM content, and
Wiki Loves Monuments.
Find the Zoom links to both meetings here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours>
.
Best,
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all,
This is Giovanna, from the GLAM & Culture team at the Foundation. I'm here
to share some really exciting news with you: the launch of the new Media
Search and the Image Suggestion API.
*Making cultural content more visible*
Several product teams at the Foundation are working hard to improve image
discovery and reuse on Wikimedia projects. Two new releases show the
potential of these developments for libraries and cultural institutions.
The first is the new Media Search on Wikimedia Commons, by the Structured
Data Across Wikimedia team, and the second is a proof-of-concept
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_data_across_Wikimedia> Image
Suggestion API, by the Platform Engineering team.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Platform_Engineering_Team>
*Searching across languages*
Media Search (or Special:MediaSearch
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch?type=image>) is an
image-focused interface that makes it easier to find what you’re looking
for on Wikimedia Commons. Most importantly, the search results are language
agnostic. Given a search term like "zonnevlek" (Dutch for “sunspot”), Media
Search won’t just return the one file on Commons that uses that term, it
will search Wikidata for relevant entities and then find all files with
that term and any of its aliases or translations. For the “zonnevlek”
example, the number of images returned increased from one file to more than
six hundred files. Media Search will make the millions of images
contributed by libraries and cultural institutions much more accessible to
a broad global audience.
You can try the new search here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch>. It became the
default search landing page for anonymous users on 1 April 2021, and for
all users in May 2021.
To increase the search relevance of your files, you should include a
descriptive title and detailed description, use the relevant Commons
categories, and add depicts statements and a caption as Structured Data
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search>.
Suggesting images for Wikipedia
The Image Suggestion API <https://image-suggestion-api.toolforge.org/?doc#/>
is a service that will generate a list of unillustrated articles for any
language version of Wikipedia, and then suggest up to 10 images for
placement on those articles. The API will be powering a planned ‘add an
image’ structured task for newcomers
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tas…>
to Wikipedia but could also be used to drive image reuse campaigns,
such as Wikipedia
Pages Wanting Photos
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos>.
Right now, the API is only a proof of concept and is still being developed.
You can try it at API Documentation
<https://image-suggestion-api.toolforge.org/?doc#/> and learn more on
the MediaWiki
page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/Image_Suggest…>.
If you can imagine using this API in your work with images, share your
ideas on the Talk page.
The API uses algorithms that simply aggregate existing information from
Wikidata and Commons, drawing on connections already made by experienced
contributors. There are four main ways that it suggests matches to
unillustrated articles:
1.
Look at the Wikidata item for the article. If it has an image (P18
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P18>), choose that image.
2.
Look at the Wikidata item for the article. If it has a Commons category
associated (P373 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P373>), choose
an image from the category.
3.
Look at the articles about the same topic in other language Wikipedias.
Choose a lead image from those articles.
4.
Search MediaSearch for the title of the article. If an image ranks high
enough in the results, choose that image.
To make your files available to the Image Suggestion API, you should use
the relevant Commons categories and add depicts statements as Structured
Data
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search>.
Learn more about the benefits of using Structured Data on Commons by reviewing
the updated documentation
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/GLAM/Why> and
joining our April office hours
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours>
on Monday, 26 April, 3.30-4.30pm UTC, and on Tuesday, 27 April, 11.00-12.00
UTC.
This was also published in the WMF *This month in GLAM *newsletter. You can
read the rest of it here
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2021/Contents/WMF…>
.
Hope to see you all during the April office hours.
Best,
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
The Wikipedia Library team at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to
announce new technical improvements to the Library Card platform and the
addition of 6 new publisher collections. If you’re an active editor who
would find free access to paywalled reliable sources useful for your
contributions, log in now to see what you can access:
https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/
More than half of the publishers available through the library can now be
accessed directly through the Library Card platform, rather than requiring
an individual account to be set up and maintained for each. Additionally,
the Library Bundle provides immediate access to 60% of our content with no
application required!
We’re also excited to announce that 6 new publishers have joined the
program, including ProQuest, Springer Nature, and the Central and Eastern
European Online Library.
You can read more about these changes in the blog post we just published:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2020/06/24/simplifying-your-research-needs-the-wi…
We hope you find these resources useful, and would love to hear your
feedback at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Library_Card_platform/Authentication-b…
Best,
Sam
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Sam Walton
Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library
Wikimedia Foundation
swalton(a)wikimedia.org