Wikidata and the Dynamic Open Movement | A. Britton, Harvard Open Access Project
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[This is a guest post by A. Britton of the Harvard Open Access Project. -- Peter.]
Wikidata and the Dynamic Open Movement
Recently, observers such as John Wenzler and Rufus Pollock have called for coordination within the open movement -- a longstanding, perennial challenge given the movement's remarkable global spread and dynamic evolution.
https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.78.2.16581
One of the Wikimedia Foundation's several giant projects, Wikidata, is a multilingual, CC0, human- and machine-readable knowledge base with over 49,285,004 data items. It has potential to structure disparate information and organize it for ready use, a critical feature of successful social movements.
The open movement could represent itself via Wikidata. The Open Access Directory, for example, has recently begun a pilot donation of its carefully curated content. Related queries on a variety of open-access subtopics now allow for convenient, on-the-spot creation of downloadable lists -- potentially useful to advocates, organizers, strategists, researchers, and machines for current awareness, metrics, social-media campaigns, and the like.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Proposed_lists/Wikidata
Much work remains in filling in the knowledge base. Queries are most useful with high quality, comprehensive data.
Anyone can edit Wikidata. Consider adding one fact about an organization, person, policy, publication, or tool that fosters open access, open data, open science, open education, open source, open government. Consider adding one hundred facts. Go big.
Get started by reading a short introduction, listening to a talk, or taking a quick tutorial.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_presentations