Hi, it's first of July and I would like to introduce you a quarterly goal that the Engineering Community team has committed to: Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101950 We are missing a community framework allowing Wikidata content and tech contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to collaborate effectively. Imagine GLAM applied to data. If all goes well, by the end of September we would like to have basic documentation and community processes for open data engineers and organizations willing to contribute to Wikidata, and ongoing projects with one open data org. If you are interested, get involved! We are looking for * Wikidata contributors with good institutional memory * people that has been in touch with organizations willing to contribute their open data * developers willing to help improving our software and programming missing pieces * also contributors familiar with the GLAM model(s), what works and what didn't work This goal has been created after some conversations with Lydia Pintscher (Wikidata team) and Sylvia Ventura (Strategic Partnerships). Both are on board, Lydia assuring that this work fits into what is technically effective, and Sylvia checking our work against real open data organizations willing to get involved. This email effectively starts the bootstrapping of this project. I will start creating subtasks under that goal based on your feedback and common sense. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Hello Quim, There was always the issue of where to publish datasets from partner organisations like a http://datahub.io/ Is that being considered in this new iteration? Cheers, Micru On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Quim, > > We have in Belgium (as Wikimedia Belgium) a partner organisation who > is together with us working with cultural institutions to get open datasets > to be used in Wikidata. > > So yes, we are interested. > > Greetings, > Romaine > > 2015-07-01 17:31 GMT+02:00 Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: > >> Hi, it's first of July and I would like to introduce you a quarterly >> goal that the Engineering Community team has committed to: >> >> Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data >> organizations >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101950 >> >> We are missing a community framework allowing Wikidata content and >> tech contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to >> collaborate effectively. Imagine GLAM applied to data. >> >> If all goes well, by the end of September we would like to have basic >> documentation and community processes for open data engineers and >> organizations willing to contribute to Wikidata, and ongoing >> projects with one open data org. >> >> If you are interested, get involved! We are looking for >> >> * Wikidata contributors with good institutional memory >> * people that has been in touch with organizations willing to >> contribute their open data >> * developers willing to help improving our software and programming >> missing pieces >> * also contributors familiar with the GLAM model(s), what works and >> what didn't work >> >> This goal has been created after some conversations with Lydia >> Pintscher (Wikidata team) and Sylvia Ventura (Strategic Partnerships). Both >> are on board, Lydia assuring that this work fits into what is technically >> effective, and Sylvia checking our work against real open data >> organizations willing to get involved. >> >> This email effectively starts the bootstrapping of this project. I >> will start creating subtasks under that goal based on your feedback and >> common sense. >> >> -- >> Quim Gil >> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Hi Quim, Sylvia, Lydia and Wikidatans, In terms of strategic partnerships with CC Wikidata, and this Wikidata Engineering Community project looking for - "* people that have been in touch with organizations willing to contribute their open data" - in what ways could CC World University and School contribute our early CC Nation State Universities, e.g. Mexico World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico - (with only the CC MIT OCW in Spanish so far, and not yet in Spanish otherwise)? See also, for example, the Nation States' wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States. Each wiki Nation-State University at CC WUaS, seeks to accredit in each country in their main languags to offer online CC baccalaureate, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees, and also I.B. high school degrees, if possible, based on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, to begin. In addition, CC World University would like to facilitate wiki / Wikidata schools for open teaching and learning in each of all 7,929+ languages. As planned interlingual wiki schools for highest quality universal education, CC World University and School would like to explore developing in Wikidata, and become a growth story also for Wikidata. World University would thus like to explore contributing our open data in these regards. In what ways might WUaS best contribute in terms of a strategic partnerships re this Wikidata Engineering Community project ? Perhaps World University could become a part of the"community framework allowing Wikidata content and tech contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to collaborate effectively." Thank you. Best, Info (Scott) On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.good(a)gmail.com > wrote: > Quim, > > I'm not familiar with GLAM or what you are really asking for here. > Could you elaborate a little? Our group is actively engaged in writing > bots for populating wikidata with trusted biomedical information and for > using that information to drive applications such as Wikipedia. Processes > for making this easier would be most welcome. A lot of what we are doing > and hoping to do is described on this bot page: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot > > ? > -Ben > > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:23 AM, David Cuenca Tudela <dacuetu(a)gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hello Quim, >> >> There was always the issue of where to publish datasets from partner >> organisations like a http://datahub.io/ >> >> Is that being considered in this new iteration? >> >> Cheers, >> Micru >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Quim, >>> >>> We have in Belgium (as Wikimedia Belgium) a partner organisation who >>> is together with us working with cultural institutions to get open datasets >>> to be used in Wikidata. >>> >>> So yes, we are interested. >>> >>> Greetings, >>> Romaine >>> >>> 2015-07-01 17:31 GMT+02:00 Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: >>> >>>> Hi, it's first of July and I would like to introduce you a >>>> quarterly goal that the Engineering Community team has committed to: >>>> >>>> Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data >>>> organizations >>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101950 >>>> >>>> We are missing a community framework allowing Wikidata content and >>>> tech contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to >>>> collaborate effectively. Imagine GLAM applied to data. >>>> >>>> If all goes well, by the end of September we would like to have >>>> basic documentation and community processes for open data engineers and >>>> organizations willing to contribute to Wikidata, and ongoing >>>> projects with one open data org. >>>> >>>> If you are interested, get involved! We are looking for >>>> >>>> * Wikidata contributors with good institutional memory >>>> * people that has been in touch with organizations willing to >>>> contribute their open data >>>> * developers willing to help improving our software and programming >>>> missing pieces >>>> * also contributors familiar with the GLAM model(s), what works and >>>> what didn't work >>>> >>>> This goal has been created after some conversations with Lydia >>>> Pintscher (Wikidata team) and Sylvia Ventura (Strategic Partnerships). Both >>>> are on board, Lydia assuring that this work fits into what is technically >>>> effective, and Sylvia checking our work against real open data >>>> organizations willing to get involved. >>>> >>>> This email effectively starts the bootstrapping of this project. I >>>> will start creating subtasks under that goal based on your feedback and >>>> common sense. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Quim Gil >>>> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation >>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata mailing list >>>> Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Etiamsi omnes, ego non >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - 415 480 4577 - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010. 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* Where to publish entire datasets... Something tells me that this is

the most urgent and important problem that we have, but the community definitely knows better, so correct me if I'm wrong. I think our main

Well that really depends on the data actually. There are lots of printed datasets and if someone has those online and can no longer host them, then we might want to harvest some, if not all of it. I am thinking of datasets of large collections of <whatever>. I recall not long ago a museum of music records became defunct and they were looking for a home for their database. We couldn't do anything for them then but we could put it in Mix-n-Match today (assuming the data is all published material that is considered a reliable source yada yada...) On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Gray &lt;andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk&gt; wrote: > On 1 July 2015 at 22:51, Quim Gil &lt;qgil(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > > > * Where to publish entire datasets... Something tells me that this > is not > > the most urgent and important problem that we have, but the community > > definitely knows better, so correct me if I'm wrong. I think our > main use > > I would agree with this. There has historically been a lot of > vagueness around the word "data", and a lot of vague suggestions in > the early days when Wikidata was still being created... and as a > result people sometimes get the impression that Wikidata intends to be > a kind of generalised data repository. This is a bit like assuming > Wikipedia will take anything that's got words :-) > > I wonder if it would be good to identify a couple of good, reliable, > repositories we can encourage people to use for this sort of material? > This means that even if we have to say to a potential partner "sorry, > this isn't what we want", we can still give them advice on how to get > it released and available in the most appropriate way. Better than a > frustrating back-and-forth... > > A > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata