Hi Daniel, Sylvia and Wikidatans,

In what ways could wiki CC World University and School, planning a CC university (accrediting upon CC Yale OYC and CC MIT OCW in 7 languages to begin) in every nation state - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - (and an online law school too in each countries' main language - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School), and in CC Wikidata, best contribute to this project - and as a startup research university (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics) also planned in all 7,929 languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages), each a wiki school for open teaching, learning and research, to begin?

Thank you.

Best,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/


Thank you Daniel, this is helpful! 


Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com 
Thu May 28 00:32:52 UTC 2015


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Sylvia Ventura <sventura at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi, I really like where this conversation is going!
>
> This is very much duplicating the (good) GLAM model for other types of
> content.
> Formalizing a Wikidata-Scientist/WIR status beyond GLAM gives us access to
> broader pool of organizations who generate/own good sources of content.
>
> I see great value is having WS/WiRs working on various economic development
> areas while embedded with the World Bank, the OECD.
>
> WS/WiRs enriching Health and disease related content while embedded with
> WHO, NIH, CDC...  Same with policy with WiRs working with Brookings, CATO,
> Pew, CID...
>
> The community can decide where we want to expand, but this would create an
> unprecedented reach of our projects and our mission.

I'd certainly like to see the WiR model expand more widely into
research institutions (we have some examples already [1])
and beyond Wikipedia and Commons (even there, we have at least one example [2]).

The possibility of a WiR at NIH has been discussed multiple times
without any concrete results other than some draft specs from 2013 [3]
and some discussion threads [4], but I think it's worth giving it
another try now that Wikidata is starting to become useful beyond
Wikimedia projects and that arbitrary access is arriving and units are
in sight.

> Daniel, I would love to learn more about your work with NIH and excited by
> your offer to help with a pilot!

My interactions with NIH started around 5 years ago when we began
working on what is now the Open Access Media Importer bot [5]. In the
process, I became an avid bug reporter and gave some talks there [6],
which triggered the formation of a working group [7] that
systematically addresses the issues that the bot has discovered (first
published in a GLAM newsletter piece [8] that has since been cited in
a related NISO recommendation [9]).

At Wikimania in London, I organized a session with Phil Bourne [10]
who runs the data science team at NIH [11], and in March this year, I
joined his team as a researcher, focusing on four areas [12]:
- exploring openness in research funding contexts
- helping design a research data Commons
- monitoring reuse of NIH resources
- engaging communities around research data

While none of this is specific to Wikimedia, we are quite conscious
that there is considerable room for interaction with Wikimedia
projects, especially with Wikidata, and happy to explore that room
together, be it individually, through WikiProjects, hackathons or
otherwise.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel


[1] e.g.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLU/Wikipedian-in-Residence
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Jisc_Ambassador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Calicut_Medical_College/Department_of_Pathology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Naturalis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_CRUK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry

[2]
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NARA

[3]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15LOvRTorGOc764BX0r4_e7Ao6O3epgDwfk8gOfGfVdU/edit

[4]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#Collaboration_with_PubChem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Institutes_of_Health#NCBI_traffic_data

[5]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot

[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/Wikimania_2012/National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/JATS-Con_2014

[7]
http://jats4r.org/

[8]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2012/Contents/Open_Access_report#Metadata_at_PubMed_Central

[9]
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/14226/rp-22-2015_ALI.pdf

[10]
http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_Knowledge_and_the_National_Institutes_of_Health_of_the_United_States

[11]
http://datascience.nih.gov/

[12]
https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/datascience



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