This document discusses putting open practices like Wikipedia and Wikidata into mainstream use in universities. It describes how research data could be transformed into open educational resources through collaborative projects. An example is provided of a project called Early Modern Letters Online that uses Wikidata to provide timelines, maps, and other contextual information about historical figures and texts from the early modern period. The document advocates exposing more detailed scholarly work to a wider audience by placing it on surfaces like Wikidata for others to build upon.
Putting Wikimedia and open practice into the mainstream in a university
1. Putting Wikipedia and Open Practice
into the mainstream in a university
Martin Poulter, @mlpoulter
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2. • In a research-focused university, change is
driven by star researchers and the needs
of major research projects and their
funding streams.
• Is there an alchemy that turns the base
metal of research data into the gold of
open educational resources?
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12. Atlas of Hillforts
One-side guidance
sheet for the Hillforts
study group
Everybody uploading
adds a category.
Query to see recent
additions to that
category
