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Here is a list of GLAM-Wiki projects and initiatives that use Structured data on Wikimedia Commons, which can be consulted as inspiration.

Please, feel free to add your own projects and examples.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Case

• Structured data on files from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) using PetScan and QuickStatements, as well as Python through the METbot.

When?

• 2020 – In progress

What?

• depicts (P180) added to more than 43 thousand files and The Met object ID (P3634) added by to 140 thousand files from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
• Adding structured data statements, as depicts (P180), creator (P170), and inventory number (P217) with the Quickstatements tool, using media ids (MIDs) or M numbers, as well as The Met object ID (P3634) and collection (P195) using the METbot.

Learn more:

• Project page: Metropolitan Museum of Art GLAM-Wiki initiative

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  The Harvesters, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Washington Crossing the Delaware, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Allegory of the Catholic Faith, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  The Dancing Class, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Mme. Charpentier and Her Children, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Digital Public Library of America

Case

• Structured data on files from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

When?

• 2020 – In progress

What?

• The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is providing digital assets from DPLA's contributors to Wikimedia Commons, describing the files with structured data.
• Discussion about the proper Structured data on Commons modeling to be used on DPLA's files.

Who?

• A project by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and funded by the Sloan Foundation.
• Led by Dominic Byrd-McDevitt, DPLA Data Fellow, previously mentored by Sandra Fauconnier, Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data at the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently mentored by Giovanna Fontenelle, Program Officer, GLAM and Culture at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Learn more:

• Project page: Digital Public Library of America GLAM-Wiki initiative
• Blog post describing the first year of the project, in which DPLA manage to upload over 1.25 million media files to Wikimedia Commons, in one of the top-5 bulk uploads in Wikimedia history: DPLA + Wikimedia: One Year In
• Blog post about the start of the project: DPLA cultural artifacts coming to Wikipedia through new collaboration with Wikimedia Foundation

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  Bird's eye view of Leadville, Colorado 1882, Denver Public Library through DPLA
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  Idaho in 1866, Denver Public Library through DPLA
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  The mountain empire of the west: Middle Park, Grand County, Colorado, Denver Public Library through DPLA
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  Illustration of the Obsidian Cliff, Aug 18, 1888, Denver Public Library through DPLA
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  Idaho the County Seat of Clear Creek County, taken from the Illinois Bar, Denver Public Library through DPLA

Wikimedia Sverige

UNESCO Archives

Case

• Files from UNESCO Archives with Structured Data on Commons uploaded by Wikimedia Sverige.

When?

• 2020 – In progress

What?

• Adding structured data statements, such as depicts (P180), creator (P170), source of file (P7482), inventory number (P217), collection (P195), location of creation (P1071), among others.
• Under source of file (P7482) is used file available on the internet (Q74228490) and under this QID, the property described at URL (P973) was used to point the file was from a UNESCO Archives URL.

Who?

• Uploads by the user AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot for Wikimedia Sverige.

Where?

• Category:Media files produced by UNESCO

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  Scoffolding on a bridge during a river flood
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  UNESCO building plaque built by architect Bernard Zehrfuss
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  UNESCO General Conference, in November 1954, Uruguay, Montevideo
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  Ms. Indira Gandhi, Minister of Information of India, Member of the Executive Board of UNESCO
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  Fortress of Qasr Ibrim, a monument in Nubia

Swedish Performing Arts Agency

Case

• 5000 music-related files, such as images, audio files, and sheet music from the Swedish Performing Arts Agency uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Wikimedia Sverige and using Structured Data.

When?

• 2020 – In progress

What?

• Strucutred Data uploaded by a Wikimedia Sverige bot, the AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot: creator (P170), performer (P175), inventory number (P217), and so on.
• On audio records, under creator (P170), the property object has role (P3831) was used to point the file was a sound recording process (Q5057302).

Who?

• Uploads by the user AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot for Wikimedia Sverige.

Where?

• Category:Media from the Swedish Performing Arts Agency
• Category:Content made available through Wikimedia Sverige partnerships

Learn more:

• Wikimedia Sverige report with the outcomes of the free music project (in Swedish)

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  Sheet music sample by Johan Helmich Roman
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  [Sats] Roman by Johan Helmich Roman
• Tommos Kerstis vallåt performed by Carl Gustaf Färje
• Radio Sweden's recording of folk music, performed by Jan Fridegård

Nordic Museum

Case

• Structured data statements, related to provenance, added to files from the Nordiska museet using a python script.

When?

• 2020

What?

• Adding structured data statements, mainly the inventory number (P217), stating the file belongs in the collection of Nordic Museum (Q1142142) with the collection ID.

Who?

• Uploads and edits by the users NordiskaMuseetBot and Abbe98.

Where?

• Category:Images from Nordiska museet: 2020-12

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  Childrens clothes, Nordic Museum
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  Beckershof mansion, Nordic Museum
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  Berga mansion, Nordic Museum
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  Fishnet shirt, Nordic Museum

Paris Museums, Belgium National Heritage Site, Onroerend Erfgoed, and Dutch institutions

Case

• Structured data statements added by BotMultichill to items from GLAM collections.

When?

• 2020 – In progress

What?

• Adding structured data statements, such as depicts (P180), digital representation of (P6243), copyright status (P6216), copyright license (P275), and source of file (P7482).
• Structured data added to more than 230 thousand files from the Flanders Heritage Agency (Q3262326).
• depicts (P180) statements added to more than 325 thousand files from the Netherlands.

Who?

• Uploads by the user BotMultichill.

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  L'Incendie de la Comédie-Française, le 8 mars 1900, Musée Carnavalet
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  Lievegem Molenslag 40, Belgium National Heritage Site

Finna

Case

• Structured data statements and File captions added to institutions from Finna, a project maintained by the National Library of Finland.

When?

• Ongoing

What?

• Adding structured data statements, such as file captions in different languages, inception (P571), source of file (P7482), depicts (P180), creator (P170), location (P276), coordinates of the point of view (P1259).
• More than 16 thousand files with Structured Data.

Who?

• Uploads and edits by the users Zache and FinnaUploadBot.

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  The second locomotive made in Finland at the first Finnish industrial exhibition in Kaivopuisto, Helsinki City Museum
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  Helsinki Railway Station Restaurant, Helsinki City Museum
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  The timing of the running competitions at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Helsinki City Museum

Jakob Smitsmuseum

Case

• Structured data for the collection of a small art museum.

When?

• 2019

What?

• Official pilot project for Structured data on Wikimedia Commons.
• Structured data for the collection of the Jakob Smitsmuseum, a small municipal art museum in Mol, Belgium (1.5 full time staff, 9 volunteers).
• Around 100 data items and files of artworks (paintings, prints, drawings) by artist Jakob Smits uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

Who?

• Data and media uploaded by PACKED, expertise center for digital heritage in Flanders, Belgium.
• Mentored by Sandra Fauconnier, Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Learn more:

• Blog post that describes the process: How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data

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  The museum in Mol, Belgium
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  Jakob Smits: Frederick Coburn (1896), collection Jakob Smitsmuseum, CC0
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  Experimental structured data for this painting
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  Jakob Smits: Self-portrait (undated). Collection Jakob Smitsmuseum, CC0
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  Gallery on Wikimedia Commons of the collection of the Jakob Smitsmuseum

Project Wolfers

Case

• Connecting three generations of decorative arts and their historical context.

When?

• 2019

What?

• Official pilot project for Structured data on Commons.
• Structured data for the work of a dynasty of Belgian silversmiths: Louis Wolfers, Philippe Wolfers and Marcel Wolfers, and their firms, collaborators and companies.
• Highlights stories and connections between works in different museum collections and their broader context.
• Also focus on describing copyright statements in structured data.

Who?

• Data and media uploaded by PACKED, expertise center for digital heritage in Flanders, Belgium.
• Mentored by Sandra Fauconnier, Program Officer, GLAM and Structured data at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Learn more:

• Project page: Project Wolfers
• Blog post describing the process and opportunities: Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data

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  Louis Wolfers père et fils: Teapot ‘Le Maraudeur’, 1890, collection DIVA
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  Philippe Wolfers: Nike brooch, 1902, collection King Baudouin Foundation and Royal Museums of Art and History
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  Structured data-driven page and list that displays relationships between objects designed by the Wolfers dynasty, and the drawings that have served as blueprints and designs for them
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  Wikidata graph showing connections between silversmith Philippe Wolfers and architect Victor Horta

Punjabi Qisse

Case

• Digitized publications, described with structured data, and to be transcribed on Wikisource.

When?

• 2019

What?

• Official pilot project for Structured data on Commons.
• Structured data was added to a set of old, digitized Punjabi books in the Qisse genre.
• This pilot project looked at the potential of re-use of data between various Wikimedia projects: Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikisource, improving the workflow of contribution to these projects.

Who?

• Data and media uploaded by Punjabi Wikimedia volunteers.
• Mentored by Satdeep Gill, Program Officer, GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Learn more:

• Project page: Punjabi Wikisource SDOC Pilot
• Blog post describing the process and opportunities: How can structured data on Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse

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  Selection of Punjabi Qisse digitized for this pilot project
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  List of digitized books with metadata
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  Structured data for one file (scan of the book Dulla Bhatti)
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  This book, ready to be transcribed on Wikisource

Metadata roundtripping

Case

• A new possibility thanks to structured data is metadata roundtripping for GLAM institutions.

When?

• 2019

What?

• Official pilot project for Structured data on Commons in 2019.
• Research and experiments around a new area of potential, unlocked by structured data: 'roundtripping' data between GLAM databases and Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata.

Who?

• A project by the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet).
• Mentored by Sandra Fauconnier, Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data at the Wikimedia Foundation.
• The final blog post also refers to related research on the use of Wikidata by GLAM institutions, by Wikimedia Deutschland.

Learn more:

• Project page: Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping
• Blog post describing the research and a pioneering workflow by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations

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  Research Report – Returning commons community metadata additions and corrections to source (RAÄ)
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  Midterm Report (RAÄ)
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  Final Report (RAÄ)
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  Research Report: Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions by Wikimedia Deutschland
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  The general principle of metadata roundtripping with Wikimedia projects

ORDER case study

Case

• A case study for the Organized, Reusable Data Enhanced in Relationships (ORDER).

When?

• January–February 2020

What?

• Upload of 500 historical photographs by Swedish architecture historian Sigurd Curman.

Who?

• Case study by Wikimedia Sverige for the FindingGLAMs project, uploading a photo collection from the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska museet).

Learn more:

• Summary of this case study on meta.wikimedia.org

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  Hauptstrasse in Ochsenfurt, Germany (1901). Sigurd Curman
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  Alhambra, Patio de los Leones (1910). Sigurd Curman.
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  Structured data of one of the uploaded photographs