At Europeana we’re working with the development of tools that would make it simple for a GLAM collection manager to upload content to Wikimedia Commons with good metadata quality.  We’ve come some way but there are two aspects of development where we think we could make good progress in a day with some Wikipedia developers.  And of course, if you’d like to work with something else we’d be happy to introduce the tool and its code to you.

Hacking ideas:

Adapting the Wikidata content handler to Wikimedia Commons
The added value would be to store metadata for uploaded media as semantically meaningful structured data rather than as wikitext.

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/ContentHandler and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ContentHandler

Adding a OAI-PMH client and repository extension to MediaWiki
Some thought and work (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAI-PMH and http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage/Improve_index_pages#API) on this seems to have already taken place in the Wikipedia community and we would like to take it further.  The added value within the GLAM-sector is that it would make MediaWiki capable of harvesting metadata using the most frequently used data exchange protocol in the GLAM-sector.

Cheers and welcome!

David Haskiya

Product Developer at Europeana
david.haskiya at kb.nl
twitter.com/davidhaskiya

We recently released an upgraded version of the Europeana API and would be happy to facilitate a hack session on it.  With parts of the Europeana team coming to THATcamp via GLAM-WIKI 2013 we’d be especially interested in working with Europeana – Wikipedia connections!

Some ideas:

– A bookmarklet that would use the API to allow its users to with a few clicks upload an object from Europeana (portal, exhibitions or Europeana 1914-1918) to Wikimedia Commons. We’re thinking something as simple as the PinIt-button, but with a richer mapping of metadata to the Commons templates

– A widget for creating embed snippets combining Wikipedia article extracts with selected related Europeana objects. We’ve got a prototype for this already that could be improved, embedded outputs look like this, http://kadmeianletters.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/another-test/

– Or pitch your own idea in the comments! Really, the Europeana team will be here mostly to facilitate your hack ideas!

Here are some useful links to the Europeana API if you would like to start looking around a bit.

• API key registration link. It’s easy, automatic and you can get as many keys as they need/want.
• API documentation
• API Forum (also, for questions during the day and peer-2-peer interaction)
• Europeana datasets
• API Console, where you can explore and test the API before starting to code

Cheers and welcome!

David Haskiya

Product Developer at Europeana
david.haskiya at kb.nl
twitter.com/davidhaskiya