Thank you!
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN
Human Capacity Development & Training Director,
African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA)
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 9:18 PM Shani Evenstein Sigalov <
shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Heart-warming to read. Good luck with all your
endeavors and if my
assistance is needed, I'm an email away. :)
Shani.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 8:28 PM Nkem Osuigwe <neosuigwe(a)aflia.net> wrote:
> Thanks for this, Shani. It came just at the right time as African
> librarians began a journey into Wikidata. I will share the link with
> participants in AfLIA's Wikidata course.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN
> Human Capacity Development & Training Director,
> African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA)
> P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
> *neosuigwe(a)aflia.net <neosuigwe(a)aflia.net> *
> *drnkemosuigwe(a)gmail.com <drnkemosuigwe(a)gmail.com>*
>
> *nkemekene(a)ymail.com <nkemekene(a)ymail.com>*
> *Website:
www.aflia.net <http://www.aflia.net>*
> Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
>
> *"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster
> horses." - Henry Ford.*
> *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while
> imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know
> and understand" - Albert Einstein*
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 3:29 PM Shani Evenstein Sigalov <
> shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Excited to share that my article "Investigating the potential of the
>> semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
>> <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-023-11664-1>" has
>> finally
>> been published in an excellent journal "Education and Information
>> Technologies" by Springer Nature. This has been a long time coming, and
>> essentially the very first publication directly from my PhD research.
>>
>> It's worth noting that to those who know Wikidata, the article would
>> probably not share anything new you haven't heard before; but it really
>> was
>> a missing piece in academic research, in terms of making the case for
>> Wikidata as a learning platform for educators and researchers who are not
>> familiar with it, so it's really great to finally have such a resource
>> available.
>> It's also a good moment to thank again the amazing Wikidata Community,
>> and
>> specifically all the people who filled out the questionnaire way back
>> when
>> and later interviewed, for this to happen. In this specific article, I
>> was
>> directly drawing from the work of Martin Poulter, Richard Knipel & Andrew
>> Lih, João Alexandre Peschanski, Toby Hudson & Daniel Mietchen.
>> Thank you all for the inspiration!
>>
>> Best,
>> Shani.
>>
>> PS -- if you can't view the link and are interested, do drop me a line
>> and
>> I'll send the PDF your way.
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