On the subject of providing rich metadata (including a hi-res image): in
the Netherlands we have a great summary of this discussion by the
Rijksmuseum about their "Yellow Kitchenmaid", who as some may recall who
have seen the painting, shows a girl wearing a brown, not yellow bodice.
https://books.google.nl/books?id=3f1nDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Arne Wossink <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks all for your feedback; keep it coming if you are aware of any other
> case-studies!
>
> @Alex, Whatamidoing: those are good and valid points. As a Wikimedian I
> know that the system works this way, and I know the benefits of providing
> categories and metadata that are ready for Wikidata. However, when I talk
> to museums, most of that knowledge is lost. What would be great to have
> (but probably doesn't exist) is a case-study showing: here's what happens
> when you provide metadata, versus here's what happens if you don't, with
> clear differences in uptake or re-use of media. We have anecdotal evidence
> that this is the case (as shown in this discussion), but that's not always
> enough to convince GLAMs to support us.
>
>
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> 2017-05-17 20:34 GMT+02:00 Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Let me expand on what Alex says with two examples of what's great about
>> metadata specifically about how ti integrates with Wikidata:
>>
>> 1)  You can get information about art in general.  Have you read
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/23/wikidata-glam/ ?  There is a map
>> in the middle of the blog post that shows where notable works of art are
>> from, and it was generated from metadata that had been imported to
>> Wikidata.
>>
>> 2)  Metadata puts your art into Wikipedia articles.  A number of the
>> Wikipedias are using Wikidata-aware infobox templates, which means that
>> when Wikidata has an entry about the artwork, then the artwork or details
>> about it can instantly appear at any Wikipedia that pulls metadata from
>> Wikidata.  Look at the infobox at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wi
>> ki/Paysage_de_la_vall%C3%A9e_de_l%27Arno  Everything in that box at the
>> moment is pulled from Wikidata, from the image to the name of the art
>> museum that holds it.  The article itself only contains {{Infobox Art}}.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:09 AM Alex Stinson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Arne, et. al.
>>>
>>> I think the greatest benefit right now, in practical terms, is
>>> increasing the discoverability through search and through the current
>>> category and linking structured between Wikidata and Wikipedia (for
>>> example, interwiki language links on the left-hand side of Wikipedia pages
>>> are increasingly including Commons Categories from Wikidata). We don't have
>>> a huge amount of evidence, that these things support access (and would
>>> welcome any examples folks want to share, like Jos -- or if they have a
>>> tactic for examining this data).
>>>
>>> In the long term, the greatest benefit will be ease of migration to
>>> Structured Data on Commons -- which has lots of discovery and arbitrary
>>> query potential. Recently, I wrote a couple recommendations for Martin
>>> Poulter, which, if done with GLAM collections now, I am imagining will help
>>> a migration to Structured Data on Commons:
>>>
>>>    - Including as many descriptive metadata templates as you can in
>>>    existing Commons infoboxes (Institution templates, creator templates,
>>>    technique templates (basically every type of sub-template type listable 
>>> at
>>>    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork
>>>    <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork> ). These are
>>>    mapped almost 1-to-1 by a few folks on Commons, so should be fairly easy 
>>> to
>>>    migrate long term.
>>>    - Ensuring that Commons categories are mapped one-to-one with how
>>>    Wikidata concepts are being used (depicts, vs topics related to an 
>>> object),
>>>    and doing it on Wikidata with Property:P373 property.
>>>    - If items are described in Wikidata, adding as many fields as
>>>    possible.
>>>
>>> The Structured data on Commons team is still being assembled, and will
>>> be doing research that builds on some initial research from the Wikidata
>>> team before doing community consultations around design next-steps:
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HeavyCom
>>> monsUserQualitativeResearch.pdf  . I am not sure what the final shape
>>> of the project's impacts will be/look like, but the more metadata that is
>>> consistently displayed now, the easier it will be for the community or
>>> institution to take advantage of the benefits of structured Commons later
>>> (such as easing attribution and embedding of the mediafile in other
>>> sources, surfacing media files in multilingual search, etc).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Alex Stinson
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Arne Wossink <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jos,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, those would be the kind of interaction that would be interesting
>>>> to see happening as a result of providing metadata to images.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Arne Wossink
>>>>
>>>> Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
>>>>
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>>>> Tuesday, Thursday)*
>>>>
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>>>> 2017-05-16 15:31 GMT+02:00 Arne Wossink <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Reem,
>>>>>
>>>>> Metadata, in this case, refers to the data from the information or
>>>>> artwork (or other) template that's used when an image is uploaded to
>>>>> Commons. So it's not the exif-data, but information about, for example,
>>>>> who's the maker of a painting, when did he make it, what techniques did he
>>>>> use. Take, for example, the data from this upload:
>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NL-HlmNHA_53004672_Kaaiman.tif
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Arne Wossink
>>>>>
>>>>> Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
>>>>>
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>>>>> 2017-05-14 21:31 GMT+02:00 Jos Damen <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> After adding Category:People_being_vaccinated to this file
>>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASC_Leiden_-_
>>>>>> Coutinho_Collection_-_G_07_-_Ziguinchor,_Senegal_-_Vaccinat
>>>>>> ion_-_1973.tiff by User Hans Muller, it was picked up by
>>>>>> User:Kopiersperre, who added: Category:Jet_injectors and added the image 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impfpistole
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Other example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASC_Leiden_
>>>>>> -_Coutinho_Collection_-_A_37_-_Surgery_in_Sara,_Guinea-
>>>>>> Bissau_-_Suturing_the_wound_-_1974.tif
>>>>>>
>>>>>> best regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jos Damen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2017-05-13 15:44 GMT+02:00 Arne Wossink <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As best practice we usually encourage GLAMs to provide as many
>>>>>>> metadata as possible for media donations. However, providing these 
>>>>>>> metadata
>>>>>>> and "wikifying" them (for examply as part of an upload using Pattypan) 
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>> be quite a bit of work, either for a Wikimedian or a GLAM 
>>>>>>> volunteer/staff
>>>>>>> member.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do we have any case studies outlining immediate benefits of
>>>>>>> providing more metadata? For example, does providing more metadata lead 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> better uptake of images in articles on WP?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Arne Wossink
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
>>>>>>>
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