John_Cummings added a comment.
I think this would be useful for a number of reasons, I'm basing this on 10
years of working as Wikimedian in Residence for cultural institutions, UN
agencies and parts of the EU. The main use case is from my perspective is for
any content created by external organisations, which runs to 10s of millions of
files on Commons. Many of these organisations share quite extensive metadata
with their content way beyond depicts, copyright and author. The main benefits
I see are the same as for references on Wikipedia, verifiability and credit.
**Wikipedia**
Allowing users to know that the metadata comes from an organisation creates a
level of trust in the information. I think SDC could be widely used and useful
on Wikipedia but without references to provide verifiability it seems unlikely
it will get used, in the same way Wikidata data without references are blocked
on English Wikipedia infoboxes in a lot of situations. Another benefit for
Wikipedia specifically is to make creating Wikipedia articles for things
depicted on Commons (eg an object in a museum) easier because the references
which are collated in SDC can most probably be reused on Wikipedia.
**Organisations sharing content:**
Many organisations adopt an open license specifically so they can share it on
Wikimedia projects, most of my job in the UN the last 5 years has been around
helping orgs adopt open licenses. Generally speaking organisations who share
content on Commons want recognition and metrics around page views and a clear
delineation between their content and Wikimedia community contributions to
avoid confusion from readers. Have references in SDC will give the
organisations credit for the metadata they share and reduce concerns about
their content being confused with community contributions which may be
incorrect. It will also encourage them to start using Wikidata and SDC on their
own website eg providing multilingual labels. There's an extra barrier to them
adopting open licenses with the CC0 license for SDC statements, generally
organisations are willing to share under CC BY or SA for content but CC0 is
difficult because is doesn't by its nature give them credit for their content.
We get around this with Wikidata because we can say 'there will be references
so people can see you added this data'. Generally speaking 'please can you
spend a significant amount of time to understand and change your license so you
can share your content with us, we won't give you credit for any of it' is
really not going to work.
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