1. Metadata on Wikisource Where we are Where we want to go Andrea Zanni Wikimedia Italia #GLAMWIKI Paris 2010

2. Just be sincere... Librarians are obses care about metadata. As much as wikipedians are obses care about copyright.

3. Why metadata? Metadata are used for cataloging, indexing, retrieving, archiving every piece of information. If we want to work with information, we need metadata.

4. Wikisource Information about books: ● in simple text ● not machine-readable ● not following metadata standard ● fr de it frdeit

5. 1. Don't lose information... Metadata management system ● Machine-readable ● Granular ● Dublin Core

6. 2. Communicating OAI-PMH complaint system for exposing metadata (letting service provider to harvest our data).

7. 3. Just take them! Tool to harvest metadata and bibliographic records from OPACs, (and Open Library, OCLC...), importing/exporting in many formats.

8. Issues - Technicalities Where/how to build them? ● toolserver ● MediaWiki extension ● SMW ● Wikidata

9. Issues - Humanilities Attitudes. ● Teach the wiki*edians the importance of metadata ● Teach the librarians the importance of what we are doing (free licensing, collaboration, open content).

10. You provide conservation We provide conversation Libraries and the Wikiverse

11. ● zanni.andrea84@gmail.comzanni.andrea84@gmail.com ● User: Aubrey Thank you!