About
editThis page is part of a talk at 16:45 CEST on June 17 as part of the Barriers and Impact Session at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) in Geneva from June 17th-19th 2015.
Title
editIntegrating Open Access and Wikimedia
Abstract
editOpen Access and Wikimedia have a lot in common in terms of their overall goals, the technical and legal approaches and the communities involved. Many interactions thus exist between the two, but they have rarely been systematic. In this talk, I will outline a range of approaches to making these interactions more systematic, e.g. by integrating OA elements into Wikimedia workflows or policies or vice versa.
Formats
editTribute to previous talks
edit- Queries
- interactive visualization of population data in Wikipedia articles, e.g. hu:Carcelén
- in the long run, more and more data in Wikipedia articles (e.g. infoboxes, tables, graphics) will be pulled from Wikidata
- Monitoring the use of identifiers across Wikimedia projects
- demo for DOIs
- Wiki bot-maintained list of Wikidata items with DOIs
- More wiki bots
- Wikimedia as part of my open access pledge
- Another way to handle issues with collaborators is to just upload some additional research materials that are not part of paywalled publications (example).
- Yes, such pledges can only have minimal impact. They have to be complemented with evidence of the benefits of openness.
- Signalling openness
Wikimedia
editPublishing
editWikimedia about publishing
edit- Publishing
- Academic journal
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals
- Wikisource:WikiProject Academic Papers
- Wikimedia Commons Category:Open access (publishing)
- Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData
- Wikidata:WikiProject Wikidata for research
- Wikidata:WikiProject Periodicals
- Wikidata:WikiProject Books
- Wiki Loves Libraries
- Wikimedians in Residence
Wikimedia and Open Access
edit- Overview
- Wikipedia article: Open access
- Exists in multiple languages
- Associated Wikidata item
- Multiple Wikimedia entities have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access (also on Wikisource and on Wikidata)
- Open-access policy
- Blog post announcing the policy
- Signpost article about the policy
- highlights differences to typical Open-access policies:
- It covers not just publications, but associated data, software and multimedia;
- It stresses the importance of open licensing, which facilitates and broadens the scope of reuse;
- It is itself available under an open license, so it can easily be adapted (e.g. translated);
- It avoids embargo periods (which most other policies allow for), and instead allows for limited exceptions;
- The exceptions are to be documented in public, which helps to collect data on the necessity for exceptions and can inform later refinements of the policy.
- highlights differences to typical Open-access policies:
- The actual policy
- FAQ on the policy
- Licensing is key throughout
Wikimedia and subscription access
editPublishing about Wikimedia
editWikimedia about publications about Wikimedia
editJournal ↔ wiki publishing
editBliven, 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
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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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Reusing
editReusing journal materials in wiki
editOpen Access Media Importer
editAn example of open science - from the grant proposal to all outputs.
- commons:User:Open Access Media Importer Bot (OAMI)
- imports audio and video files from openly licensed articles in PubMed Central (PMC)
- Stats:
- Expansion to full-text import
- deeplinking
- Wikipedia Zero
- Wikisource is included
Reusing wiki materials in journal
editCurating via Wikimedia
editRole of repositories
edit- Interoperability
- is key to reuse
- requires standardization
- JATS is the de-facto standard for exchanging journal article content in a machine-readable fashion
- used for articles ingested into PubMed Central
- SciELO content is available in JATS, soon in PMC
- Optical Society of America, Copernicus, BioMed Central, Nature Publishing Group and others moved to JATS, even though not all of their content is going to PMC
- NASA and other US Federal Agencies are planning to build their public access policies around PMC
- Problem: Inconsistent XML as a Barrier to Reuse of Open Access Content
- JATS4R is trying to address this
- Improving the reusability of JATS
- Now also with data citation
Visualizations
editEvents
edit- Open Scholarship track at Wikimania 2014
- Wikipedia Science Conference in September
- with 2 hackathons
- Erasmus Prize & conference in November
Policy
edit- Open Access policy of the Wikimedia Foundation with several distinct features
- covers not just publications, but associated data, software and multimedia;
- stresses the importance of open licensing, which facilitates and broadens the scope of reuse;
- is itself available under an open license, so it can easily be adapted (e.g. translated);
- avoids embargo periods (which most other policies allow for), and instead allows for limited exceptions;
- exceptions are to be documented in public, which helps to collect data on the necessity for exceptions and can inform later refinements of the policy.
Beyond Open Access
edit- Wikimedia grants, with the entire project cycle being open by default
- Mietchen, D. (2014). "The Transformative Nature of Transparency in Research Funding". PLoS Biology. 12 (12): e1002027. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002027.
{{cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - EU funding proposal drafted in the open, complete with Zenodo DOI and rejection letter
Barriers
edit- Technical issues of Open Access need more attention
- Permanent archiving of interactive media
- I've stopped putting interactive multimedia into PDF for that reason
- #JATS standardization
- Permanent archiving of interactive media
Impact
edit- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Popular pages
- Wikipedia:Ebola translation task force
- Roshan Karn from Open Access Nepal (just shown presenting the OA Button in Nepal) collaborates with Wikimedia Nepal and other Wikimedians on making health-related information available for disaster-struck people in Nepal in their local languages. They are hampered by good materials not being openly licensed, e.g. to allow translations.
Citing
editCiting journals in wiki
edit- WP:V — verifiability
- Wikipedia Cite-o-Meter
- Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Halfaker, Aaron; Taraborelli, Dario (2015): Scholarly article citations in Wikipedia. figshare. Retrieved 14:22, Feb 27, 2015 (GMT)
- CrossRef DOI Events for Wikimedia
- CrossRef Labs DOI Chronograph
Citing wiki in journals
editContact
edit- @EvoMRI on Twitter
- Wikipedia talk page
- Wikipedia email
- or firstname (dot) lastname (at) nih.gov
See also
edit- Wikimedia and Open Access — a rich history of interactions
- Lawson, Stuart (2015): Open access and Wikipedia. figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1394870
- Wikimedia and OA at OAI8
- Wikimedia and scholarly publications
- Open Access as part of the wider open ecosystem