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From July 2013 to March 2014, [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Jisc] and Wikimedia UK are jointly supporting a project to encourage a range of audiences (librarians, teachers, researchers and students) within learning and research to engage with Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia projects. This project overlaps the [[cultural partnerships]], [[expert outreach]] and [[education projects]] areas of Wikimedia UK's work. The outputs of the project will be events, case studies and other documentation.

== Activities ==
The project is producing:
* A [[Expert outreach/Jisc Ambassador/Research impact and open education|series of cross-discipline workshops in universities]]
* Public "editathon" events:
** [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford/AdaLovelaceDay2013|Women in Science editathon for Ada Lovelace day]], 15 October, University of Oxford
**[[Veterinary Science editathon|Wikipedia/WikiVet Veterinary Science Editathon]], 20 November, Royal Veterinary College
** Third to be decided: suggestions welcomed
* Sessions at [[EduWiki Conference 2013]]
* A Jisc infoKit on the Wiki Way of Working
* Documentation, tools, and advice for Jisc and Jisc-funded projects (which can be repurposed for other audiences): see the [[Collaborate/Jisc|collaboration flowchart]]
* Blog posts/ case studies on successful use by academics of the Wikimedia projects
** Telling the stories of rural England with Wikipedia
* Project pages on the Wikimedia sites

All materials being created under this project are being released under free (Wikipedia-compatible) licences.

== Background ==
Among the many projects supported by Jisc are [http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/ collections of digital content]; research in areas such as Digital Humanities and Virtual Research Environments; and the [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/ukoer3.aspx UK Open Educational Resources programme]. Jisc promotes open access to research as part of the [http://open-access.org.uk/ UK Open Access Implementation Group] and its work with institutional repositories. Jisc also influences practice in Higher and Further Education through its work in innovation and change management. [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/jisc-and-wikimedia-uk-to-bridge-between-academia-and-wikipedia/ See the blog post] for more about the collaboration project's rationale.

Before this project, Wikimedia UK's work with Jisc has included [[World War I/World War I Editathon|the World War I editathon]], the [[JISC DI team training workshop|Digital Infrastructure team workshop]] and workshops at the [http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/en/programmes-events/your-university/cll/index.cfm Changing the Learning Landscape Strategy Implementation Programme] event. Two of Jisc's programme managers spoke at the [[EduWiki Conference 2012]], as did staff from [http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk Jisc TechDis] and [http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ Jorum]. Wikimedia UK had a presence at the Jisc-sponsored [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/04/open-educational-resources-some-reflections-on-oer-13/ Open Educational Resources 2013 conference]. Wikimedia UK's Martin Poulter and Jisc CETIS' Phil Barker collaborated on [http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Wikimedia_Commons_for_UKOER_resources a help sheet for developers about Wikimedia Commons]. In March 2013, Wikimedia UK's blog ran [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/learning-and-teaching-in-the-age-of-wikipedia/ an interview with Oxford University's David White] about his Jisc-funded research into use of sources by school and university students.

=== The overlap ===
Here is an overview of some topics in which ''both'' Jisc ''and'' the Wikimedia movement are active. It is not meant to be comprehensive (and suggested additions are welcomed) but it deliberately excludes some Jisc activities which do not have a counterpart in Wikimedia, and vice versa.
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* Open Access to the outputs of research
* Access to, and use of, research resources including databases and archives
* Discovery of digital and paper resources
* Creation, adaptation and evaluation of digital media (raster and vector images; video; audio)
* Curation and preservation of digital media
* Educational uses of digital media
* Classification, taxonomies and folksonomies
* Authority files 
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* Secondary research data
* Citation management
* Geodata
* Biographical data
* Structured data (Linked open data/ microformats/ the semantic web)
* Public domain text: curation, discovery, checking
* Translations and multilingual resources
* Accessibility for all categories of user
* Mobile technology for learning, contribution and collaboration
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* Open Educational Resources; creation, use, remixing, evaluating
* Open Educational Practices
* Students as producers
* Assessment of learning
* Relationships among learners including mentorship, group learning, peer assessment
* Metrics of learning and engagement; including paradata, usage and reusage data
* Digital literacies
* Online collaboration (technological and cultural aspects)
* Crowdsourcing
|-
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* Development and improvement of open source software tools and libraries to support all the above
* Training, skills-sharing and spreading innovation related to all the above
* Support and dissemination of research into all the above, to inform practice
|}

=== The Ambassador ===
Dr Martin Poulter is acting as an Ambassador between the two communities, with the support of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol as well as the two partner organisations. He is employed part-time alongside his two other jobs at the University.

Martin is a {{w|User:MartinPoulter|veteran contributor to English Wikipedia}}, with more than eight thousand edits. See elsewhere for {{w|User:MartinPoulter#Writing_and_interviews_about_Wikipedia|Martin's past publications about Wikipedia}} and his [[User:MartinPoulter#Activity_summary|Wikimedia-related talks and presentations]]. In the past he has worked on Jisc-funded Open Educational Resources projects and taken part in events about co-operation between Jisc and the HE Academy.

== Reporting ==
;Monthly reports
* [[/Summary 8 September 2013]]
* [[/Summary 7 October 2013]]

;Pages on Wikimedia projects
* [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:GLAM/Jisc|on English Wikipedia]]

You can follow the project in greater detail on the dedicated user page, [[User:MartinPoulter_Jisc]]. Martin will continue to take part in [[Education Committee]] meetings and will report on major developments in those meetings and their minutes.

== Contact ==
To send queries to Martin, it is best to use email at martin.poulter{{at}}wikimedia.org.uk , but Talk pages on the different Wikimedia projects will be watched.

== Media coverage ==
(latest at top)
*19 October 2013 [http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/news/2013-10-19-celebrating-women-science "Celebrating Women in Science"] (article by Liz McCarthy and Kate Lindsay on ''Oxford Today'' web site about the Ada Lovelace Day editathon)
*15 October 2013 [http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/23things/wikipedia-learning-by-sharing-knowledge/ "Wikipedia: learning by sharing knowledge"] (guest blog post by Martin for "23 things" online course run by Bodleian libraries, Oxford) ([http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/10/wikipedia-learning-by-sharing-knowledge/ also on Wikimedia UK blog])
*15 October 2013 [http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/15/ada-lovelace-day-wikipedia-editathon "Ada Lovelace and Wikipedia's women"] ''Guardian Higher Education Network'' article by Liz McCarthy and Kate Lindsay
*17 September 2013 [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/09/announcing-a-veterinary-science-editathon/ "Announcing a veterinary science editathon"] Wikimedia UK blog 
*1 July 2013 [http://www.bristolwireless.net/2013/07/bristol-universitys-martin-poulter-appointed-jisc-wikimedia-ambassador/ Bristol Wireless blog post]
*30 June 2013 [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/wikipedia-contributors-should-be-proud/2005265.article Wikipedia contributors 'should be proud'] ''Times Higher Education'' web site (not in the paper publication)
*[http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2013/9535.html University of Bristol announcement of the project]
*[http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/bridging-the-gap-between-academia-and-wikipedia-27-jun-2013 Jisc announcement]
*[http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2013/06/28/jisc-appoints-wikimedian-ambassador/ Jisc Digitisation & Content Programme blog announcement]
*[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/jisc-and-wikimedia-uk-to-bridge-between-academia-and-wikipedia/ Wikimedia UK blog post]

== Archived material ==
* [[/Call]]

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