>From my very personal and (GLAMmy) point of you, it should be, at least, a OAI-MPH (OAI-ORE?) complaint repository, who would harvest/contain metadata from Commons and Wikisource. It should import/export data in variuos forms and within various metadata schemes (e.g. Dublin Core).
It could be designed for llong-term preservation, adding archival metadata (and metadata schemes). For the part of Wikidata as a repository of Open Data (Linked Open Data?) from Wikipedia, I give you the word. Aubrey 2010/11/24 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> > On 11/22/2010 10:24 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > > In my opinion, the Wikimedia Foundation should very seriously look into > starting something like wikidata. > > One major problem is that different people have very > differing understanding of what "wikidata" should mean. > It is an abstract good, similar to "world peace" or > "democracy" -- or Wikimedia's "usability" project, > that introduced slow and broken Javascript instead > of actually increasing usability. With this background > I would advise against starting a "wikidata" project. > > What should be started is something smaller and > more focused, that solves some actual problem. > This is like asking for "freedom of the press" or > "women's suffrage" rather than abstract "democracy". > > So, which concrete, smaller ambitions could you list? > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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