Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1jgK8C8aQ As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#July_2017>. This month's presentation: Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall*In addition to encyclopedia articles and software, peer production communities produce *structured data*, e.g., Wikidata and OpenStreetMap’s metadata. Structured data from peer production communities has become increasingly important due to its use by computational applications, such as CartoCSS, MapBox, and Wikipedia infoboxes. However, this structured data is usable by applications only if it follows *standards.* We did an interview study focused on OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes to investigate how – and how successfully – this community creates and applies its data standards. Our study revealed a fundamental tension between the need to produce structured data in a standardized way and OpenStreetMap’s tradition of contributor freedom. We extracted six themes that manifested this tension and three overarching concepts, *correctness, community,* and *code,* which help make sense of and synthesize the themes. We also offer suggestions for improving OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes, including new data models, sociotechnical tools, and community practices. Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

On 25 July 2017 at 19:38, Sarah R &lt;srodlund(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: There's some discussion of the talk , on the UK OSM mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2017-July/020401.html _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l