Images

Absorbing media from the world's open repositories

Reading media from all over the world

Wikidocumentaries presents Wikimedia content alongside Free Cultural Works from open repositories and allows the user to use their combined information.

Images from national or transnational GLAM aggregators and APIs of large media institutions are read via API's and displayed in the Images section.
The available information is mapped to Wikidocumentaries metadata schema for uniform display. All the information at this stage is generally textual. The user may browse the information in the image viewer.
The user may import one or more images to Wikimedia Commons, where the media file can be enriched with structured data. The enriched SDC files are displayed alongside all media form the different outlets in the Images display, but they just have extra powers.

Enriching the media

SDC images can be further enriched with tools made available in Wikidocumentaries. Such existing and desired tools include:

Associating text-based metadata to Wikidata items.
Annotating regions of the images with Wikidata items.
Geolocating the images
Curating media collections
Creating Wikidocumentaries based on media collections

Machine Learning opportunities

Train to recognize the API output and map it to Wikidocumentaries schema

New opportunities

The enhanced information will result in for example

More accurate image results from Wikimedia Commons
Possibility of automatically creating Wikidocumentaries
Possibility to compare and enrich the data from the different sources for the same images.

Image actions

Choosing the main image

Image P18 in the Wikidata item
Main image in one of the related Wikipedia articles
The first image in the images listing, not a pdf

Image grid

The result set is displayed in a justified view. Use the Flickr grid code available for Vue here? The script requires the image dimensions to be known to produce the grid. Can we get any of this info in the API results or must we wait until we have the images loaded?
60vh and two rows of images are displayed and more can be viewed (by scrolling horizontally or by querying more images gradually).
Possibility to open a separate Images discovery window for browsing images in a full page window.
Rephoto and original photograph are displayed as a pair.
Adding images via an action in the Images toolbar Actions menu. > Add image tool / modal?

Image tasks

Grouping – Select a group of photos that were shot at the same occasion
- Could be automatically suggested by exif data?
- Creates a collection, which is tagged with all appropriate properties and displayed in either the image section or a collections section
Record common disambiguation items and tag those images.
- When anyone removes an image from the collection and gives the correct topic to link to, this topic is saved in the "Different from" property.
Select images for the header
- These images can be used as item images in Wikidata. Other specific types of images can also be tagged (night view, coat of arms, flag, image of the grave...)

Module toolbar

View

View
- on a map
- on a timeline

Actions

when no images have been selected

Select images

when some images have been selected for an action

Reset selection
Remove images from this topic > (submenu)
- Add correct tags (modal)
- Flag the images (modal)
- Remove from this topic
Add tags to the selected > (modal)
Add to a collection >

Facet and sort

Images can be filtered based on their properties. Initially everything is selected. Selections filter out content. UI for selecting has not been fully developed. Unselected may be dimmed or selected may be highlighted. It must be possible to make several choices. There must be a way to see the full selection of properties. Reset by section may be needed. Number of images by facet is needed. Sorting uses the same controls, and is attached to only a few properties. Sorting by location means sorting by distance. Sorting by several criteria has not been defined.

The result set can be faceted and sorted.

Restrict by
- Time
- Location
Filter/facet by
- Depicted
  - People
  - Topics
  - Places (hierarchical presentation)
- Wikimedia Commons classes or most used Wikidata links. To be explored.
- Image qualities
  - Image size
  - Image orientation
  - colour
- Content types
  - Photograph
  - Map
  - Graphic
  - Painting
  - Rephoto
- Creator
- Source platform
- Source institution
Sort by
- Time
- Proximity
- Creator
Save search criteria as a dynamic collection
Reset selection

Find

Free text find

Image

Image with basic actions (normal state). Clicking the image opens the image in the Image viewer. Clicking on the external button opens the image in it's original location.
Image with a caption (hover state). Use gradient shadow in the background.Structured data is presented with links.

Image actions are available through the Actions menu. Any action will add the image metadata to Wikidocumentaries.
Image with all icons. Indicators show which data is attached to the image. The respective tools can be accessed directly by clicking on the icon in addition to navigating through the Actions menu.
Image with no actions allowed. It is possible to display images that are not permissively licensed, but they cannot and will not be enriched.

Caption

Title/caption: Title
Attribution: Role & Creator (can be many, with link to topic page if possible)), date (year), license (with link)
Source: Institution (link to preferably the page in Wikidocumentaries, fallback: website) / Platform (link to info page)

Example (links not included)

Elias Öhman's cortege in Kanavakatu, Helsinki, 19 March 1908.
Photographer Anonymous, 1908, Public Domain.
Helsinki City Museum / Finna.

Controls and actions

Ellipsis - Dropdown: Actions. Any action will add the image metadata to Wikidocumentaries.
- Edit image metadata > Save initial media metadata, Save image content to XX, Open Metadata editor
- Geolocate the image > Save initial media metadata, Save image content to XX, Open Geolocating tool
- Discuss the image > Save initial media metadata, Open Image viewer, Start Discussion
- Select to a collection > Open Collection chooser modal
- Identify people, places, date... > Open Annotation tool
- Set as topic's main image
- Set as... > Persistent menu or modal: See opitions in Infobox#Commons_media
- Download image > Open Download modal
Speech bubble - Indicates discussion > Join Discussion
POI - Indicates geologation > Open Geolocating tool
Question mark - Indicates unidentified people > Open Annotation tool
Star - Default empty star > Open Collection chooser modal
Cross - Remove from this topic, assign new topic or discard altogether, do not show with this topic anymore
External - View in original location

Search conditions

Images listing

The search now produces 20 images from each repository. They are not ordered.

Search language(s)

It is important to use search terms in the languages that the repository uses.

The languages of the repository could be saved as the search languages, in the repository entry in the local Wikibase.
The topic may have an original language
- nationality --> languages spoken?

Keyword search in search language(s)

Topic label and aliases.
Use additional name fields, if available
- official name (P1448)
- birth name (P1477)
- short name (P1813)
- name in native language (P1559)
- pseudonym (P742)
- married name (P2562)
- art-name (P1787)
- posthumous name (P1786)
- codename (P1638)
- alternate names (P4970)
Use street address (OR)
Use administrative unit (OPTIONAL)

Make use of authority IDs

Limit search to certain fields if necessary

Topic search
- Finna.fi: filter[]=~topic_facet:"Topic"
Creator search
- Finna.fi: The subject is the creator of the image (or the work depicted in the image): filter[]=~author_facet:"Author name"

Search by location

Finna.fi: The image is within the coordinates of the subject: filter[]={!geofilt sfield=location_geo pt=lat,lon d=dist}:""
The subject is a location of the image: filter[]=~geographic_facet:"Place name"

Filtering

Find only certain file types
- Finna.fi
  - The search result is an image: filter[]=~format_ext_str_mv:"0/Image/"
  - The search result is an artwork: filter[]=~format_ext_str_mv:"0/WorkOfArt/"
Filter out certain file types
- Wikimedia Commons
  - Signatures, flags, sounds, location maps etc. could be filtered out and displayed in other sections instead

How to search Wikimedia Commons in general??

Include subcategories in Wikimedia Commons

Query

Copyright and licenses

Images with no redistribution rights should be filtered out if found.
Creative Commons NC and ND images could possibly be displayed but they could not be reused, or they could be filtered out altogether.