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On 20 May 2011 23:35, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote:
> Developers at this weekend's GLAMCamp NYC
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_NYC
>
> are developing a data-munging tool, based on pywikipediabot, to aid in
> mass uploads. They'll be hacking on it in sprints this weekend,
> starting 11am-12:30pm NYC time tomorrow, Saturday the 21st. Join them
> in person, or in #glamwiki on Freenode.
>
> See notes from today's preliminary session:
>
> http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/GLAMcampNYC-ut
>
> Summary, I believe by Maarten Zeinstra:
>
> > There is a Python library (pywikipediabot) where many of Maarten's
> > bots are derived from[1]. The desired outcome of this session is that
> > we're turning ita library that functions as a black box for uploading
> > data to Wikimedia Commons. This library will have one external
> > function "put(metadata, configuration). It also needs to include a
> > function to check for duplicates.
> >
> > configuration wll be a dictionary that holds the following keys:
> > - configurationTemplate, holds URL to configuration template
> > - configurationTitleTemplate, holds configuration of Title Template
> > - sourceKey, holds the key of the metadata dict that indicate the url
> > of the source
> >
> > An extra module will be written to ingest different formats and offer
> > its metadata as dictionary in key-value format (metadata in put(); ).
> > This module can be GUI-ed. Written as a base class with can be
> > subclassed or extended, to enable different standards.
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/multichill/bot/Europeana/Europeana_uploader.py?hb=true
>
> The Etherpad also describes the work they're going to do:
>
> > We are going to make 3 modules
> >
> > 1. Upload module
> > MaartenD is going to make a function
> > put(metadata, configuration);
> > with metadata as a dict (python for associative array)
> > add duplicate checker
> >
> > 2. Conversion module / interface module
> > Make a metadata conversion module that ingests CVSs/OAI-PMH and
> > converts to internal dict format add a GUI that create the 2 dicts
> > necessary (metadata, configuration)
> >
> > 3. Develop a configuration standard as an array of keys for a dict.
> >
> > draft of standard:
> > configurationTemplate: holds template url
> > ConfigurationTitleTemplate
>
> Hope this is a productive weekend and we come out of it with something
> useful!
>
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Wikimedia Foundation
> Volunteer Development Coordinator
>
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