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In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as
SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform
metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical
free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.
The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the
meal kit option, in the form of
XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of
slow food yourself. See
Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.
The argument from
real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the
principle of unripe time. On the other hand,
discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from
open access, we grok the Web, we have
our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and
WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.
Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade, Michigan State University project for a
linked open data platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature."
There were
three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops
in the programme.
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Wikidata weekly summary #333
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (
slides,
speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
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Wikidata weekly summary #335
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
A Wikidata workshop will be led by
Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with
Wikimedia Israel & and the
Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the
Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check
the full list and
the map to find one near you
Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of
Winterthur's sister city
Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at
Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "
From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian
Shani Evenstein.
Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to
Lucas)
Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (
example,
documentation)