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A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons

By Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF)

Since Structured Data on Commons launched in 2019, the community has been working to effectively use the depicts feature, which has been integrated into the Upload Wizard steps, but there is still a lot of uncertainty and divergent practices.

So far, there are two different pages that describe the use of depicts on Commons: the Commons page for depicts and the Structured Data modeling page for depicts. Both offer good information about the feature, but not enough guidance for how depicts should be modeled, or the various ways this data can be found and used.

To build a shared understanding, we have produced a guide to depicts and will be facilitating a discussion about the depicts feature during the Wikimania session, Structured data on Commons: today and tomorrow. We will share how depicts information is used in new product features like MediaSearch and Image Suggestions and suggest some models that will improve the discoverability and reuse of images.

Organized by community member, Andrew Lih, who is also a Wikimedian at Large at the Metropolitan Museum and at the Smithsonian, the session is part of the Education & GLAM track and will include representatives from the Foundation’s Structured Data and GLAM & Culture teams.

Details: Structured data on Commons: today and tomorrow

  • Speakers: Andrew Lih, Fiona Romeo, Giovanna Fontenelle & Carly Bogen
  • Date: Sunday, August 15
  • Time: 19:45 - 20:45 UTC
  • Place: Building 5
  • Language: English
  • Format: Roundtable
  • Assume basic understanding (90% of the community)


The GLAM & Culture team is also participating in another Wikimania session, the State of GLAM Wiki in 2021.

Details: State of GLAM Wiki in 2021

  • Speakers: Érica Azzellini, Andrew Lih, Giovanna Fontenelle, Dominic Byrd-McDevitt, Siobhan Leachman, Susanna Ånäs, Ederporto & Fiona Romeo
  • Date: Sunday, August 15
  • Time: 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
  • Place: Building 2
  • Language: English (also available in Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese
  • Format: Roundtable
  • Ideal for newcomers


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