Most Australian academics will be familiar with ERA and its journal list.
There is a bit of background available at wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellence_in_Research_for_Australia
The specs for the next ERA are in draft at the moment.
The Australian Research Councils list of journals only contains ERA ID,
journal title (and native title where the English title is different), and
ISSNs.
Wikidata already includes properties which institutions can utilise to
better describe these journals, such as editor, publisher, establishment
year, ISO 4 abbreviation, Bluebook abbreviation (for Law journals),
preceeding journal, SCOPUS journal identifier.
These properties are being populated from Wikipedia by my bot, but if
anyone is interested I could use help in defining useful properties and
populating them.
--
John
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From: "John Vandenberg" <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2014 11:50 AM
Subject: ERA journal list on Wikidata
To: <era-discussion(a)googlegroups.com>
Cc:
The ERA 2010 and 2012 journal lists are now available on Wikidata, an
> extensible user generated data store, with their ERA Journal IDs.
>
> The Wikidata property for the ERA Journal ID is 'P1058'
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1058
>
> Each thing in Wikidata has a 'Q' page, with a permanent ID associated
> with it. e.g. Q23973 is Journal of Experimental and Theoretical
> Physics.
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23973
>
> The complete list of items with that property is able to be viewed here:
>
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere&target=Pro…
>
> Wikidata can also be accessed programmatically. See the api
> documentation here for a list of available queries and data formats.
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php
>
> e.g. to find items with title "Journal of Experimental *", and return
> the data in json format, use:
>
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Journal%2…
>
> or the same as xml
>
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Journal%2…
>
> The wikidata software doesnt have the ability to query by property
> yet. That functionality is available via a separate tool
> 'WikiDataQuery'. To fetch JSON data for all Q numbers, ERA IDs and
> ISSNs, visit:
>
> http://wikidataquery.eu/api?q=claim[1058]&props=1058,236
>
> (2 mb download)
>
> Once you have downloaded that, you have a mapping of ERA IDs to
> Wikidata Q numbers, and the other properties stored in Wikidata for
> the ERA journals may be programmatically obtained via the Q number.
> e.g.
>
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q23973&format=…
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
Here is a readable short report from a QUT Law lecturer on the Australian
Digital Alliance Forum:
The only way to fix copyright is to make it fair. <http://bit.ly/1nYTToP>
Whiteghost.ink
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Hi Everyone
During todays iirc discussion its was suggested that WMAU would create QR
codes of articles which achieve GA status. This would enable everyone to
participate in the WikiTown format without creating a full project, this
will work especially well for places where you have a connection and can
assist in gaining permission to install the plaque.
The proposal is at
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:QR_codes_GA_articles
Please join the discussion
Gideon
Hi All,
A quick announcement of the following event that might be of interest to
some of you. It's a miniature version of a similar event run in 2013.
Sorry for the late notice, but the international keynote speaker only got
confirmation of his fellowship at the last minute, and we're trying to
squeeze this in before the teaching term begins.
Toby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Wikipedia_in_Higher_E…
The Writing Hub at the University of Sydney is hosting a Wikipedia in
Higher Education symposium. Associate Professor Robert E Cummings, U.
Mississippi, and board member of the WikiEd Foundation, will be the
keynote speaker and will address the role of Wikipedia in higher education
and offer some successful models for teaching with Wikipedia.
This symposium is for people of all levels of interest in and experience
with Wikipedia.
9am-1pm Monday 24th February.
PNR learning studio 311
*Draft Schedule*
9:00am Welcome, Frances Di Lauro (Writing Hub, The University of Sydney)
9:20am Associate Professor Robert E. Cummings (Ole Miss)
10:00am Pete Forsyth (Wikistrategies)
10:40am Mylee Joseph & Kathryn Barwick (State Library of New South Wales)
11:20am Break
11:30am Matthew Todd (School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney) (if
available)
12:10pm Liam Wyatt (National Library of Australia)
1:00pm Close of conference
Possible workshop in OTC 330 from 2-3 (if numbers justify)
(Forwarding)
http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/copyright-report-122
The Australian Law Reform Commission was asked to consider whether the
current exceptions and statutory licences in the Copyright Act are adequate
and appropriate in the digital era.
The Report, tabled on 13 February 2014, is the result of an 18-month Inquiry
during which the ALRC produced two consultation documents, undertook 109
consultations and received 870 submissions.
The Report contains 30 recommendations for reform. The key recommendation is
for the introduction of a fair use exception to Australian copyright law.
A smaller Summary
<http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/copyright-and-digital-economy-alrc-122-
summary> Report is also available.
I have recently (as in 5 minutes ago) been a guinea pig in a
Wikipedia-related research study. The project has been submitted and
approved by the Wikimedia Foundation. The researchers still need more
volunteers. It takes about an hour via Google Hangouts. If you can find the
time, please contact Wkmaster via talk (see below)
Kerry
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at
University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a
Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new
visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your
laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google
Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your
time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit
our wiki page
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you
would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wkmaster> Wkmaster (
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wkmaster> talk) 20:28, 10 February
2014 (UTC).
As someone who coined a phrase "socially constructed media" back in 2004
when everyone was using "Web 2" I've been more than a little agitated by
the use of "social media" at the exclusion of the Wikimedia projects.
Either ask the stats, commentary and infographics are based on a poorly
defined category, or my understanding of the words social and media
somehow missed the new speak.
Does anyone who knows the inner workings of the Wikimedia projects have an
argument for me? I find them to be the MOST social of all the
user-generated sites I use. From sharing photos, video and graphics on
Commons, constructing reports on News, negotiating courses or documenting
research on Versity, or writing on Books... Why does this not warrant more
than a mention in the stats, commentary and infographics about "social
media"?
Please don't tell me it's a commercial interest thing!
I'd agree with Kerry here. It is part of the same generation of web apps
as Facebook, etc but serves an entirely different purpose. It would be
like comparing the development of open source software "social media"
because they deal with other developers around the globe, for example.
Having said that, a couple of years ago there was a mock up of a future
Wikimedia interface (looking 10-15 years away) which included
facebook/twitter like influences such as notification pop-ups, etc, and of
course the "wikilove" icon today could be compared to a "like".
Regards,
Charles
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> While these are all Web 2.0 (or digital engagement platforms as Liam
> calls them), there are distinct differences. There is a pretty clear goal
> to WP and other WMF projects (open knowledge) that we work towards. But
> Facebook, Twitter etc don't really have an overall goal as such (well,
> apart from make money for their owners through advertising or whatever) but
> none from a user perspective. They are more platforms that are
> predominately used as pastimes, although of course some people may use that
> platform for a goal of their own (promote a cause or product or whatever).
>
>
>
> Personally I would describe the WP experience as much less social than
> Facebook etc. People "friend" me and "like" my comments on Facebook, but
> most of the WP talk interaction is much more critical (and sometimes
> hostile). The old management saying "phrase in public, criticise in
> private" is completely overlooked in the design of WP user talk pages. My
> experience of some WP projects is that they behave with more of a "gang
> mentality", as in "ooh, you've edited a page that's on our turf, so now
> we'll beat you up", hardly what I would call social. Of course, my Facebook
> friends are people that I choose to be my Facebook friends and they are
> predominantly people that I know in "real life", whereas I don't know most
> WP editors (even the subset that write on my user talk page) in real life
> and have no control over their ability to write on my public user talk page.
>
>
>
> I'd hesitate to call Wikipedia "social media".
>
>
>
> Kerry
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* wikimediaau-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
> wikimediaau-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Liam Wyatt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 February 2014 9:11 AM
> *To:* Wikimedia Australia Chapter
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Are the Wikimedia projects social media
>
>
>
> Hi Leigh,
>
> as the "social media coordinator" at a cultural institution now, I'm
> simultaneously trying to have Wikimedia seen to be as, if not more,
> important than other social media platforms but also wary of tying
> Wikimedia too closely to the term social media because it has a connotation
> of being simplistic only about 'likes' etc.
>
> Therefore, I've been trying to use the phrase 'digital engagement'
> wherever possible which has a different vibe to it - and an implied
> different motive (to engage, not merely to be social).
>
> Two other concepts that I've used a lot to help define Wikimedia are
> Brianna Laugher's "Community Curated Works" (as opposed to User Generated
> Content), defined here:
> http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/123/an-alternative-term-for-user-ge… Lori Philips' "Open Authority", defined here:
> http://midea.nmc.org/2012/01/defining-open-authority-in-museums/
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -Liam
>
>
> wittylama.com
> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
>
> On 5 February 2014 08:08, Leigh Blackall <leighblackall(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As someone who coined a phrase "socially constructed media" back in 2004
> when everyone was using "Web 2" I've been more than a little agitated by
> the use of "social media" at the exclusion of the Wikimedia projects.
> Either ask the stats, commentary and infographics are based on a poorly
> defined category, or my understanding of the words social and media
> somehow missed the new speak.
>
> Does anyone who knows the inner workings of the Wikimedia projects have an
> argument for me? I find them to be the MOST social of all the
> user-generated sites I use. From sharing photos, video and graphics on
> Commons, constructing reports on News, negotiating courses or documenting
> research on Versity, or writing on Books... Why does this not warrant more
> than a mention in the stats, commentary and infographics about "social
> media"?
>
> Please don't tell me it's a commercial interest thing!
>
>
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Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:10 AM
Subject: [school-of-open] Fwd: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open
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woohoo! go Sara and Pete! :)
please help spread the word to your friends new to Wikipedia.
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Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM
Subject: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration
To: school-of-open-announce(a)googlegroups.com
For the first quarter of 2014, we are launching School of Open courses on a
rolling basis in February, March, and April. The first course to open for
sign-up is "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond."
See the full announcement below and at
https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41933.
*Below, Sara Frank Bristow invites you to join "Writing Wikipedia Articles:
The Basics & Beyond". Sara is a co-organizer of the course and a member of
WikiProject Open <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OPEN>. Both
projects are part of the School of Open.*
------------------------------
The School of Open will offer its popular "Writing Wikipedia
Articles<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO>"
course (WIKISOO) starting *25 February, 2014*. This free introductory
online course, now in its fourth incarnation, runs for six weeks.
Enrollment is open to all.
[image: WikiSOO_Burba]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO_badges>
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WIKISOO students learn about the values and culture that have driven
hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build Wikipedia. Through their work
in the course, they join an effort that has generated millions of free
articles in hundreds of languages since 2001.The course covers the
technical skills needed to edit articles, and also offers practical
insights into the site's collaborative norms and social dynamics. Students
graduate with a sophisticated understanding of how to use Wikipedia both as
a reader and as an active participant.
The course focuses on articles about openness in education: open
educational resources<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources>(OER),
MOOCs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOCs>, Creative
Commons<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons>
licenses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license> and more.
Students will forge connections with WikiProject
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The course is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the
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- Dr. Robert Cummings, Associate Professor (University of Mississippi)
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- More course information: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO
- Enroll: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO/NOW
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