User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/UKSG 2015

About

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.

Title

Wikimedia and scholarly publications

Abstract

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

Trailer

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

Wikimedia

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

Wikimedia about publishing

Wikimedia and Open Access

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
- Open Access Signalling project
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.
- The actual policy
- FAQ on the policy
Licensing is key throughout

Journal ↔ wiki publishing


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
Overview		Commentary

Citing

Citing journals in wiki

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
- Introductory blog post
CrossRef Labs DOI Chronograph
- Introductory blog post

Citing wiki in journals

examples

Reusing

Reusing journal materials in wiki

Open Access Media Importer

An 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:
- GLAMorous OAMI
- BaGLAMa
Expansion to full-text import
- deeplinking
- Wikipedia Zero
  - Wikisource is included

Reusing wiki materials in journal

Curating via Wikimedia

Mechanical Curator (cf. Ben O'Steen's talk)
Rfam/Pfam databases
Gene Wiki
- moving to Wikidata
VIAF
- Integration of VIAF identifiers into Wikidata
- VIAF now links back to Wikidata
ChemSpider (cf. Serin Dabb's lightning talk)

Role of repositories

Interoperability
- is key to reuse
- requires standardization

JATS

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

Long-term vision

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.