User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/UKSG 2015

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This page belongs to a talk given on April 1, 2015 (in Plenary Session 5, from 12.15 to 12.45pm BST), as part of UKSG's 38th Annual Conference in the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow. Notes about the talk have been blogged by an attendee.

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Wikimedia and scholarly publications

Abstract

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Wikipedia and its sister projects – particularly Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource and Wikidata – are one of the most popular sources of information, including on topics related to scholarly research. They interact with scholarly resources in multiple ways - they may simply link to, cite or quote them, or suitably licensed scholarly materials may experience a second life when being reused in a new context as part of a Wikimedia project, e.g. on a Wikipedia page or in a Wiktionary entry.

It is thus in the interest of the research community to get acquainted with the inner workings of these platforms, as well as with the broader culture of openness that they are embedded in and that has started to spread into academia. This talk shall provide a general introduction to Wikipedia and its sister projects, focusing on the role they play in engaging the public with research.

In the spirit of openness, the talk is editable and being developed in public at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/UKSG_2015, from where it will also be held. Feedback of any kind - e.g. suggestions, questions, or reports of past interactions with Wikimedia - is most welcome. A video recording of a similar talk given at CERN some years back is available via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/CERN_2012 .

Formats

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Trailer

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How to signal the openness of references cited on Wikipedia (also available on Vimeo).

Wikimedia

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Logos of Wikimedia projects, with Wikidata missing. Counterclockwise, starting on top: Wikimania, Wikibooks, Meta-Wiki, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, MediaWiki, Wikimedia Incubator, Wikivoyage, Wikidata, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia.

Publishing

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Wikimedia about publishing

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Wikimedia and Open Access

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Wikimedia and subscription access

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Publishing about Wikimedia

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Wikimedia about publications about Wikimedia

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Journal ↔ wiki publishing

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Bliven, S.; Prlić, A. (2012). Wodak, Shoshana (ed.). "Circular Permutation in Proteins". PLoS Computational Biology. 8 (3): e1002445. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002445. PMC 3320104. PMID 22496628.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link), CC BY Wikipedia: Circular permutation in proteins, CC BY-SA A journal article whose text corresponds to this version of the Wikipedia article Dengue fever, CC BY-SA

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Citing

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Citing journals in wiki

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Citing wiki in journals

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Reusing

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Reusing journal materials in wiki

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Open Access Media Importer

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An example of open science - from the grant proposal to all outputs.

Reusing wiki materials in journal

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Curating via Wikimedia

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Role of repositories

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  • Interoperability
    • is key to reuse
    • requires standardization

Visualizations

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Long-term vision

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Sharing research with the world as soon as it is recorded, in a way that is integrated with research workflows rather than added on top of them (cf. Geoffrey Bilder's talk). Now imagine this with open licenses and public version histories as the default setting. Video also available on Vimeo.

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