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abernard102@gmail.com 2014-12-07

Summary:

"A few weeks ago, this blog was enriched with a post entitled 'Establishing Wikidata as the central hub for linked open life science data'. It introduced the Gene Wiki – a wiki-based collection of information related to human genes – and reported upon the creation of Wikidata items for all human genes, along with their annotation with statements imported from a number of scientific databases. The blog post mentioned plans to extend the approach to diseases and drugs, and a few weeks later (in the meantime, Wikidata had won an Open Data award), the underlying proposal for the grant that funds these activities was made public, followed by another proposal that involves Wikidata as a hub for metadata about audiovisual materials on scientific topics. Now it’s time to take this one step further: we plan to draft a proposal that aims at establishing Wikidata as a central hub for linked open research data more generally, so that it can facilitate fruitful interactions at scale between professional research institutions and citizen science and knowledge initiatives. We plan to draft this proposal in public – you can join us and help develop it via a dedicated page on Wikidata.  The proposal – provisionally titled 'Wikidata for research' – will be coordinated by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (for which I work), in close collaboration with Wikimedia Germany (which oversees development of Wikidata). A group of ca. 3-4 further partners are invited to join in, and you can help determine who these may be. Maastricht University has already signaled interest in covering data related to small molecules, and we are open to suggestions from any discipline, as long as there are relevant databases suitable for integration with Wikidata ..."

Link:

http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal-that-anyone-can-edit/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.wikidata oa.wikimedia_germany oa.biology

Date tagged:

12/07/2014, 13:11

Date published:

12/07/2014, 08:11