On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Sylvia Ventura sventura@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi, I really like where this conversation is going!

This is very much duplicating the (good) GLAM model for other types of content. Formalizing a Wikidata-Scientist/WIR status beyond GLAM gives us access to broader pool of organizations who generate/own good sources of content.

I see great value is having WS/WiRs working on various economic development areas while embedded with the World Bank, the OECD.

WS/WiRs enriching Health and disease related content while embedded with WHO, NIH, CDC... Same with policy with WiRs working with Brookings, CATO, Pew, CID...

The community can decide where we want to expand, but this would create an unprecedented reach of our projects and our mission.

I'd certainly like to see the WiR model expand more widely into research institutions (we have some examples already [1]) and beyond Wikipedia and Commons (even there, we have at least one example [2]).

The possibility of a WiR at NIH has been discussed multiple times without any concrete results other than some draft specs from 2013 [3] and some discussion threads [4], but I think it's worth giving it another try now that Wikidata is starting to become useful beyond Wikimedia projects and that arbitrary access is arriving and units are in sight.

Daniel, I would love to learn more about your work with NIH and excited by your offer to help with a pilot!

My interactions with NIH started around 5 years ago when we began working on what is now the Open Access Media Importer bot [5]. In the process, I became an avid bug reporter and gave some talks there [6], which triggered the formation of a working group [7] that systematically addresses the issues that the bot has discovered (first published in a GLAM newsletter piece [8] that has since been cited in a related NISO recommendation [9]).

At Wikimania in London, I organized a session with Phil Bourne [10] who runs the data science team at NIH [11], and in March this year, I joined his team as a researcher, focusing on four areas [12]: - exploring openness in research funding contexts - helping design a research data Commons - monitoring reuse of NIH resources - engaging communities around research data

While none of this is specific to Wikimedia, we are quite conscious that there is considerable room for interaction with Wikimedia projects, especially with Wikidata, and happy to explore that room together, be it individually, through WikiProjects, hackathons or otherwise.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

[1] e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLU/Wikipedian-in-Residence https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Jisc_Ambassador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Calicut_Medical_College/Departm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Naturalis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_CRUK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NARA

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/15LOvRTorGOc764BX0r4_e7Ao6O3epgDwfk8gOfGf...

[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#Collaborat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Institutes...

[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/Wikimania_2012/Nati... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/JATS-Con_2014

[7] http://jats4r.org/

[8] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2012/Contents/O...

[9] http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/14226/rp-22-2015_ALI.pdf

[10] http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_Knowledge_and_the_N...

[11] http://datascience.nih.gov/

[12] https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/datascience