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Note: these people have not necessarily been | Note: these people have not necessarily been approached or confirmed. This is more like a "fantasy football" team of speakers. | ||
* Marc Bogonovich, [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/279739136/openwords-foreign-language-learning-app-with-open Openwords] | * Marc Bogonovich, [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/279739136/openwords-foreign-language-learning-app-with-open Openwords] | ||
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* Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth on geography and geodata/ making use of old census documents | * Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth on geography and geodata/ making use of old census documents | ||
* Wellcome Library for medical humanities connection? | * Wellcome Library for medical humanities connection? | ||
* someone from the [https://nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine] | |||
* Ally Crockford for medical humanities & Wikipedia | * Ally Crockford for medical humanities & Wikipedia | ||
*[https://buildingsandthebody.wordpress.com/abstracts/#beale Gareth Beale and Nicole Beale], gave a talk on ''The Afterlife of Basing House in the Digital Imagination'' | * [https://buildingsandthebody.wordpress.com/abstracts/#beale Gareth Beale and Nicole Beale], gave a talk on ''The Afterlife of Basing House in the Digital Imagination'' | ||
* someone from [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings] | |||
* Jan Ainali for the [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge Wikidata Menu Challenge] | |||
[[Category:Conferences organised by Wikimedia UK]] | [[Category:Conferences organised by Wikimedia UK]] | ||
[[Category:Events in 2016]] | [[Category:Events in 2016]] | ||
[[Category:Expert Outreach]] | [[Category:Expert Outreach]] | ||
Revision as of 12:58, 20 May 2015
This is a scratchpad for ideas about a potential conference to take place in 2016 or later. None of the details have been fixed yet. Optimistically, this could be done in 2016, but it might take longer to come about.
We are already organising a conference about Wikimedia projects and science but there is just as much benefit to Wikimedia in working with Humanities academics.
Rationale
- Who is this for?
People who feed text into a computer to learn things from it.
- What are the intended outcomes?
- Greater awareness of, and use of, Wikimedia platforms - such as Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Research Portal - among researchers. This relates to both the process of research (e.g. checking and coding text) and to engagement and impact (getting the most value out of research already published).
- Greater use of open-access humanities materials on the Wikimedia projects.
- Sharing, creation, or improvement of tools that do interesting things with text.
- Discussion of open access and free knowledge, and the benefits they offer to the humanities.
Potential venues/ partner organisations
Like the science conference, this can only realistically happen with the support of a partner organisation.
- British Library (has a long-standing working relationship with Wikimedia UK; has previously hosted GLAM-WIKI conference)
- Bodleian Libraries (have a Wikimedian In Residence; have a lecture theatre and a couple of meeting rooms)
- Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield (has a small but very nice conference facility which has hosted a Wikimedia workshop)
Potential contributors
Note: these people have not necessarily been approached or confirmed. This is more like a "fantasy football" team of speakers.
- Marc Bogonovich, Openwords
- British Library Labs (Mahendra Mahey and Ben O'Steen) - also connected to a community of academics and research groups
- Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck and Open Library of Humanities (previous speaker at Wiki Conference UK)
- Kathryn Eccles, Oxford University's Digital Humanities Champion (Martin will meet)
- Jisc Collections (past contacts due to Martin P's stint as Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador)
- Cambridge Digital Humanities Network (have hosted Wikipedian editathons in past)
- Alannah Fitzgerald, Durham University (open access/ open education academic who has previous spoken at EduWiki and has done textual research using Wikipedia as corpus)
- Brian Hole, UCL and Ubiquity Press (took part in a Jisc panel on Open Access publishing)
- Rupert Gatti, Cambridge University and Open Book Publishers (took part in a Jisc panel on Open Access publishing)
- Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth on geography and geodata/ making use of old census documents
- Wellcome Library for medical humanities connection?
- someone from the National Library of Medicine
- Ally Crockford for medical humanities & Wikipedia
- Gareth Beale and Nicole Beale, gave a talk on The Afterlife of Basing House in the Digital Imagination
- someone from Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings
- Jan Ainali for the Wikidata Menu Challenge