I was looking at the potential topics for the Wikimania conference
and saw a number that looked like they would be research
presentations. I'm thinking of going to the conference, but the the
conference organizers have not yet posted the actual papers that will
be presented. If i was going to attend I would need to start making
arrangements pretty soon. I'm just curious how many other researchers
are considering attending?
Kevin
This mailing list is directed at people doing research on or about the
Wikimedia Projects and Communities, broadly conceived.
If there is to be a list for the internal research group it should have
a distinctively different name.
This list is intended to be a low volume list for academic researchers
(though not confined to traditional academics of course) to make
contacts for potential co-authors, report on research, discuss research
programs and proposals.
--Jimbo
Hoi,
The IEEE LOM is a standard for providing Meta-data to the educational
system. It is an open standard and it is being implemented in several
countries. Technically the standard exists into two parts. the technical
labels and its localisations and localised vs universal content.
There was a Dutch organisation that asked in OTRS to host the Dutch
Wikipedia so that it would be able to combine the Wikipedia content with
the IEEE LOM data. In principle there is nothing wrong with that.
However if 50% of the Dutch data is of an universal nature, it would
mean that this 50% does not need to be entered for the articles in other
languages. Hosting this metadata on the Wikimedia servers makes sense;
it allows for the opening up of Free content in a proprietary world. It
would make a huge deduction in cost for every second language
implementing the IEEE LOM data.
The questions I put to you are:
* Are we willing to host open standard meta data for the educational
world.
* Are we willing to cooperate with organisations that are interested
in implementing this data.
* How will we manage such things; funds can be found to pay people
doing this kind of work - can we consider this
Thanks,
GerardM