Greetings, Please note that the time of the IRC chat was changed to 18:00 (UTC) i.e. one hour earlier than previously announced. ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=next&oldid=132667852 )
You can see how it converts to your timezone using this tool: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Structured+Data+IRC+discussion&iso=20140903T18&ah=1 On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflo...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Greetings! > > We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons, to help > us plan our next steps for this project. > > The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve information > for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, using > Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new project page (1). > > The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and write > file information, and to enable developers to build better tools to view, > search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we propose to > investigate this opportunity together through community discussions and > small experiments. If these initial tests are successful, we would develop > new tools and practices for structured data, then work with our communities > to gradually migrate unstructured data into a machine-readable format over > time. > > The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this project > together, in collaboration with many community volunteers active on > Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring roundtable > discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks ago, to define a > first proposal together (2). > > We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community > members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment to > read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you think, by > answering some of the questions on its talk page (3). > > We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday September 3 at > 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live in this IRC office > hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4). > > Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows, data > structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues. If > you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, we invite you > to sign up on directly on our hub page (5) -- and help start a sub-page for > your workgroup. > > We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming weeks. In > previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most important > contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in coming years. > We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more resources to bring > it to life, with your help. > > We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented community > members like you to take on this challenge, improve our infrastructure and > provide a better experience for all our users. > > Onward! > > > Fabrice — for the Structured Data team > > > (1) Structured Data Hub on Commons: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data > > (2) Structured Data Slides: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf > > (3) Structured Data Talk Page: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data > > (4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3): > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions > > (5) Structured Data Workgroups: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) -- Guillaume Paumier _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
