wikidata – University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network

Event 2 – Presentations

May 3, 2017 EdinburghOKN

On Friday 28th April 35 colleagues from across the University came together for the second UoE Open Knowledge Network meet up. The event featured a morning of speakers followed by workshops in the afternoon. Guillaume Evrard has created a Storify of tweets from the event here University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network

PhD Thesis Digitisation Project

by Gavin Willshaw, University Library & Collections

PhD Thesis Digitisation Project from Lorna Campbell

Wikipedia in the Classroom – World Christianity

by Alex Chow, School of Divinity

Details about this course can be found on Alex’s Wikipedia page here Wikipedia in the Classroom

Algorithms

by Jeremy Knox, Research in Digital Education

Algorithms from Lorna Campbell

MOOC Production at UoE

by Jo Spiller, Education Development & Enhancement

MOOC Production at UoE from Lorna Campbell

International Open Science Conference report

by Lorna M. Campbell, Learning, Teaching and Web Division

A transcript of Lorna’s talk is available from her blog here International Open Science Conference Report .

Open Science Conference report from Lorna Campbell

UoE Internet of Things Programme

by Ewan Klein, School of Informatics

Ewan’s slides can be accessed from SharePoint here University IoT Programme.

Use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool in Biomedical Sciences

by Chris Harlow, Centre for reproductive Health

Use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool in Biomedical Sciences from Lorna Campbell

Open Data at the University of Edinburgh

by Wilbert Kraan, Data Architect

Open data at the University of Edinburgh from Lorna Campbell

Learning by Developing in a Living Lab

by James Stewart, Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation

Learning by developing in a Living Lab from Lorna Campbell

Introduction to Edinburgh DataShare

by Pauline Ward, Data Library

Edinburgh DataShare is a digital repository of research data produced at the University of Edinburgh, hosted by Information Services. Edinburgh University researchers who have produced research data associated with an existing or forthcoming publication, or which has potential use for other researchers, are invited to upload their dataset for sharing and safekeeping.

Wikidata and Histropedia Workshop

by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence

Slides and resources from Ewan’s workshop are available from Google drive here Wikidata and Histropedia.

Incentivising Open Research

February 6, 2017 EdinburghOKN

In addition to a keynote and lightning talks, the recent UoE Open Knowledge Network event hosted a series of parallel discussion sessions focused on open educational resources, the interface between unrestricted and open data and incentivising the sharing of research data. This latter session, led by Pauline Ward of the Data Library, identified a number of key points to address and potential actions to take forward.

Key Points

Greater sharing of research data can happen through:

Financial incentives.
Culture shift to ‘open by default’.
Leading by example e.g. raise awareness of clinical anonymised data already in DataShare.
Encouraging all researchers to put their own data on wikidata. Raising awareness of Wikidata’s potential for data linkage and visualisation, reputational gain, powerful analytics, citation impact.
Clarity asap from HEFCE on how impact (from data in particular) will be defined and measured in the next REF.
New research to demonstrate increased citation impact from sharing data.

Actions

1. Formulate an offer of training on DataShare and Wikidata as an incentive for a volunteer researcher to become a Data Champion (for the Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, after the Data Safe Haven becomes available this Summer).

2. Ensure clear guidance is available to researchers on how to mitigate the risk of infringing the General Data Protection Regulation, which will come into force in 2018. (There has been concern the stringent penalties may be deterring data sharing.)

We’d welcome thoughts and comments on these points and actions, so please let us know what you think.