Reading/Multimedia/Structured Data

Structured Data is a new project that aims to implement structured, machine-readable data to store and retrieve information for images and media files on Wikimedia Commons and other sites. It is likely to be implemented with the Wikidata technology and Wikibase and related extensions.

Structured Data Improve how to store and retrieve metadata on Wikimedia Commons, the media library associated with Wikipedia. Group: Reading Team members: Wikimedia Foundation: Mark Holmquist, Matthias Mullie Wikimedia Germany: Lydia Pintscher, Daniel Kinzler and others

The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are planning to plan to develop this project together at some point, in collaboration with the volunteer communities on Wikimedia Commons and other projects impacted by this initiative.

Currently, all information about this project is updated on this Structured Data hub on Wikimedia Commons. Please post any comments directly on its talk page.

This page will be primarily used for Wikimedia Foundation informational purposes (e.g. project infobox or status reports).

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons

• Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2017-2018: Structured data
  • Quarterly goals for 2017-18 Q1 (July-September 2017)
  • Quarterly goals for 2017-18 Q2 (October-December 2017)

See also our /Technical requirements