[Wikitech-l] GLAMCamp NYC this weekend: hacking on metadata tool for Wikimedia Commons

There is a Python library (pywikipediabot) where many of Maarten's bots are derived from[1]. The desired outcome of this session is that we're turning ita library that functions as a black box for uploading data to Wikimedia Commons. This library will have one external function "put(metadata, configuration). It also needs to include a function to check for duplicates. configuration wll be a dictionary that holds the following keys: - configurationTemplate, holds URL to configuration template - configurationTitleTemplate, holds configuration of Title Template - sourceKey, holds the key of the metadata dict that indicate the url of the source An extra module will be written to ingest different formats and offer its metadata as dictionary in key-value format (metadata in put(); ). This module can be GUI-ed. Written as a base class with can be subclassed or extended, to enable different standards. [1] https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/multichill/bot/Europeana/Europeana_up…

We are going to make 3 modules 1. Upload module MaartenD is going to make a function put(metadata, configuration); with metadata as a dict (python for associative array) add duplicate checker 2. Conversion module / interface module Make a metadata conversion module that ingests CVSs/OAI-PMH and converts to internal dict format add a GUI that create the 2 dicts necessary (metadata, configuration) 3. Develop a configuration standard as an array of keys for a dict. draft of standard: configurationTemplate: holds template url ConfigurationTitleTemplate