Structured Data On Commons/Event

Structured Data On Commons is multilingual information about a media file that can be understood by humans, with enough consistency that it can also be uniformly processed by machines. Files on wiki commons described with multilingual using concept wikidata.

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In the global south (in the context of Ghana) most of our contents (files,images etc) are not structured properly on the repository of all images and files (wikicommons) which has made it difficult to search for images. If images and files are structured it will easy search.

Background

We will have a training session where volunteers would be equipped with the tools used to structure that on commons. We will have two training sessions, after the training session volunteers would be provide with unstructured data on commons which has to be structured.

Training

The list below are training materials that volunteers would be introduced to in the cause of the training.

• Minefield
• Petscan
• Quickstaments
• Wikiata Infobox on Commons
• Slides available

Dashboard

Interested volunteers should join the dashboard.

Team

• Jwale2
• NanaYawBotar
• Joris Darlington Quarshie