Dear Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia Pintscher, Peter Norvig,
Laurence Moroney, Wikidatans and All,
Please find attached a letter (as PDF) of support on behalf of your "Data
Engineering and Semantics" research unit project at the University of Sfax,
Tunisia, from World University and School (and in GDocs - "Sfax Letter of
Support from World Univ & Sch Oct 2019
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sH1pZyTl9KM_QWktGllLhbFvTFCIb9ik8xXPLx6crN8/edit?usp=sharing>
").
Sincerely,
Scott GK MacLeod
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 1:25 PM Scott MacLeod <
sgkmacleod(a)worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia
Pintscher, Peter Norvig,
Laurence Moroney, Wikidatans and All,
CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School as a research
university (and planning online major research universities in all ~200
countries) will write a letter of support for this project. (And as you
may all know WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015 and
received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence but they're not
yet interoperable in any of Wikidata's ~300 languages yet).
World University and School is also planning online Medical Schools with
online teaching hospitals for online clinical care in ~200 countries'
official/main languages, and online clinical trials in each of all 7111
known living languages -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for…
-
with remarkable career opportunities for Wikidatans.
As president of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School and
exploring further collaboration opportunities with Wikidata as well, CC-4
MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School is developing not
only our ~200 planned online Medical Schools -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_Sch… -
with ~200 online teaching hospitals -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online
clinical care, as well as online clinical research and trials in 7,111
known living languages -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for…
-
as well as ~200 online law schools -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School -
both Medical Schools and Law Schools planned in all ~200 countries -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in
their official languages -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. World
University and School is also planning great numbers of academic careers
for potentially Wikidatans, in all 7111 living languages - and seeks to
become the MIT / Harvard / Oxbridge of the Internet.
Perhaps this email will serve an initial letter of support for your
efforts, but I look forward to learning, Houcemeddine, more specifically
what kind of letter of support might be further helpful.
Thank you.
All the best,
Scott
In a related vein, please see Agenda items 4, 7, and 8 and other items as
well from today's open MIT OCW-centric World University and School's
monthly business meeting:
Agenda:
-
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/agenda-for-oct-19-201…
-
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-…
... with WUaS Minutes from today's 3rd Saturday open Monthly Business
Meeting to come on these blog sites.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 5:54 AM Houcemeddine A. Turki <
turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. I am honoured to inform you that we are
managing to launch a research unit dealing with Data Science research in
Tunisia. This research unit is named "Data Engineering and Semantics". It
belongs to Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of
Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed *BEN
AOUICHA* (
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=XPVUu-gAAAAJ&hl=fr)=fr).
He was the person behind the project of University of Sfax about the use of
Wikipedia and Wiktionary in semantic technologies, particularly semantic
similarity measures. We need this research unit to have Wikimedia
Researchers in the University of Sfax affiliated to an official research
structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research
efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies in the University
of Sfax. Data Enginering and Semantic Technology researches are needed to
ameliorate the usage and processing of knowledge bases including wikis.
Effectively, we will work in this unit to develop tools to ameliorate
linked data quality of Wikidata and to use Wikidata for a variety of
purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing
and Education. We will also analyze the output of wikis, identify
deficiencies and work to solve them. However, this will not be possible
without several letters of support from several institutions. I ask if your
research institution can send us a letter of support so that we can have
the approval of the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education to create our new
research unit.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
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+21629499418
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De : Houcemeddine Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr>
Date : 2019/10/17 19:28 (GMT+01:00)
À : wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Objet : Seeking a letter of support from research institutions
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. I am honoured to inform you that we are
managing to launch a research unit dealing with Data Science research in
Tunisia. This research unit is named "Data Engineering and Semantics". It
belongs to Computer Science *and Communications *Department, Faculty of
Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed *BEN
AOUICHA* (
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=XPVUu-gAAAAJ&hl=fr)=fr).
He was the person behind the project of University of Sfax about the use of
Wikipedia and Wiktionary in semantic technologies, particularly semantic
similarity measures. As explained in my previous emails, *we need the
research unit to have Wikimedia Researchers in the University of Sfax
affiliated to an official research structure*. The main goal of the unit
is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and
Semantic Technologies in the University of Sfax. Data Enginering and
Semantic Technology researches are needed to ameliorate the usage and
processing of knowledge bases including wikis. Effectively, we will work in
this unit to develop tools to ameliorate linked data quality of Wikidata
and to use Wikidata for a variety of purposes including clinical decision
support, Natural Language Processing and Education. We will also analyze
the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them. However,
this will not be possible without several letters of support from several
institutions. I ask if your research institution can send us a letter of
support so that we can have the approval of the Tunisian Ministry of Higher
Education to create our new research unit.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
____________________
+21629499418
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