Heya, A quick note for metadata fans: since my last e-mail, the BHL has released the first version of the BHL illustration schema for feedback at http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/08/interested-in-improving-access-to.html -- we'd love your feedback on what information you would like associated with BHL illustrations which would make it easy for you to find images you could use on Wikimedia projects, and then to reuse those images on Wikimedia projects. Do we have adequate copyright information, for instance? Please have a look at our schema and let us know!
On 25 August 2012 00:08, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > What sort of information are you looking for? The few files I checked on > [[Category:Files from the Biodiversity Heritage Library]] (butterflies) seem > to be described in detail (mention in description + category for each > species), is this what you're aiming at? Nemo: SO sorry for the late reply! We're aiming for something like the metadata on the following Commons images: - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenwaxbill.jpg - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simonkai.jpg - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PasserMoabiticusWolf.jpg (other examples available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information_Art_of_Life/Gallery) These images have textual descriptions in the {{Information Art of Life}} template as well as corresponding categories to subjects; we also use the {{inscription}} and {{Creator}} templates to provide more information about what is actually in the image. The {{Creator}} template automatically add the images to the appropriate creator category. > Managing the information templates seems a nightmare, perhaps you should aim > at categories. I'm hopeful that eventually we'll be able to use software to smoothen this process: an {{Information Art of Life}} record would be automatically generated from the basic metadata available at the BHL when the image is uploaded to the Commons; a script could then re-extract the metadata via the Mediawiki API or by reading hidden "span" or "div" tags, for use in moving fully annotated images into other image repositories, such as ArtStor. Until then, I hope the Information Art of Life template will provide a way for Commons editors to structure information about the illustration, especially as pertains to biological species and other subjects. One thing that would help would be for more templates which could help categorize images. I recently wrote the {{Agent}} template (see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Agent) which uses {{#ifexists}} to test for a Creator template for the given creator name. If the name exists, it incorporates it into the page, adding the file to the correct creator category in the process. If the name doesn't exist, it instead creates a red-link to where the Creator page should be. > HotCat works well enough per se, but you still need to know > the category guidelines (or better, the precise name of the category). It > would be great if the autocompletion could be fixed so that 1) you don't > need to know in advance whether the category you need is e.g. "Churches of > Finland" vs. "Finnish churches", 2) redirects and soft-redirects are > followed, e.g. from plural to singular and viceversa. > If such a feature existed, maybe even files uploaded with the UploadWizard > may at some point have categories. That would be awesome to have! As something completely unrelated to everything else, has anybody worked on extracting the Commons categories as a Web Ontology Language (OWL) file? It'll be interesting to use OWL inferencing to "check" that categorized as organized consistently, although it would be a *huge* project to work on. cheers, Gaurav _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
