Hi Daniel, Sylvia and Wikidatans,

(and an online law school too in each countries' main language -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School), and in CC Wikidata, best contribute to this project - and as a startup research university

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics) also planned in all 7,929 languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages), each a wiki school for open teaching, learning and research, to begin?

Thank you.

Best,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

Hi Scott, Thank you for sharing these links. I am not familiar with the World University School, sounds like an interesting project as well. I would like tp take the time to review the links in more detail before brainstorming ideas.

Thanks again for sharing!

Sylvia

(See the rest of this email below).

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Hi Sylvia and Daniel,

I'm resending this email to you with wiki links for your further consideration.

Thank you!

Best,

Scott

Hi Sylvia and Daniel and Wikidatans,

Thanks very much for your email, Sylvia. I'll first share a little information further about possible specific examples of Wikidata-World Bank-National Institute for Health-World University projects, and inquire about developing a possible Wikidata-WUaS strategic partnership, vis-a-vis, for example, mining World Bank data, as well as NIH data.

Wiki World University and School (WUaS) would like to develop accrediting CC (so free, and by first engaging CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) online Universities in all ~200 nation states - see: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - to become the CC Harvard of the internet in all countries' main languages in the process. Mining World Bank data with Wikidata to inform and shape each accrediting WUaS would be a great project and possible collaboration. Toward creating World Bank-Wikidata-informed universities in all nation states, accrediting online best STEM-centric CC WUaS is planning to offer online bachelor, Ph.D., law and MD as well as IB high school degrees - see: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links.

In terms of mining NIH data, CC WUaS would like to also develop, for example, online "Clinical Trials at WUaS (for all languages)" -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) - around the world, and for a very wide array of studies over time, generating much inter-lingual data in the process. Such NIH data mining could also inform the planned online Medical School at WUaS -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - and Hospital at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital (think developing-world medicine, space medicine, ship medicine and wilderness medicine as well as telemedicine) - in all nation states and their main languages to begin, among ginormous amounts of other health data, - and teaching and university research related projects too (see, for example - "Health Sciences and Technology" -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Health_Sciences_and_Technology and "Cancer Biology" -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cancer_Biology wiki subjects).

WUaS is also planning to develop all of this with artificial intelligence and machine learning - and anticipating all 8,000 + languages (per Glottolog), and for an Universal Translator -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator.

Although still a very small CC startup university and school, WUaS might also be able in the autumn of 2015 to offer a Federal Work Study student or two or more, as an assistant to the Wikimedian project you outline in the attachment above, Daniel, if this would be helpful, and if WUaS and Wikidata/Wikimedia were involved in a strategic partnership.

WUaS also seeks to become a significant growth story for Wiki- and great universities' academic communities and in all ~ 8,000 languages, each an online wiki school for people to people teaching -and in ~200 countries, each an accrediting best STEM-centric university.

Best,

Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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(The rest of Sylvia's email ... ).

Thanks again for sharing!

Sylvia

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Scott MacLeod <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Daniel, Sylvia and Wikidatans,

In what ways could wiki CC World University and School, planning a CC university (accrediting upon CC Yale OYC and CC MIT OCW in 7 languages to begin) in every nation state -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - (and an online law school too in each countries' main language - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School), and in CC Wikidata, best contribute to this project - and as a startup research university (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics) also planned in all 7,929 languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages), each a wiki school for open teaching, learning and research, to begin?

Thank you.

Best,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

Thank you Daniel, this is helpful!

Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com
Thu May 28 00:32:52 UTC 2015

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On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Sylvia Ventura <sventura at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi, I really like where this conversation is going!
>
> This is very much duplicating the (good) GLAM model for other types of
> content.
> Formalizing a Wikidata-Scientist/WIR status beyond GLAM gives us access to
> broader pool of organizations who generate/own good sources of content.
>
> I see great value is having WS/WiRs working on various economic development
> areas while embedded with the World Bank, the OECD.
>
> WS/WiRs enriching Health and disease related content while embedded with
> WHO, NIH, CDC...  Same with policy with WiRs working with Brookings, CATO,
> Pew, CID...
>
> The community can decide where we want to expand, but this would create an
> unprecedented reach of our projects and our mission.

I'd certainly like to see the WiR model expand more widely into
research institutions (we have some examples already [1])
and beyond Wikipedia and Commons (even there, we have at least one example [2]).

The possibility of a WiR at NIH has been discussed multiple times
without any concrete results other than some draft specs from 2013 [3]
and some discussion threads [4], but I think it's worth giving it
another try now that Wikidata is starting to become useful beyond
Wikimedia projects and that arbitrary access is arriving and units are
in sight.

> Daniel, I would love to learn more about your work with NIH and excited by
> your offer to help with a pilot!

My interactions with NIH started around 5 years ago when we began
working on what is now the Open Access Media Importer bot [5]. In the
process, I became an avid bug reporter and gave some talks there [6],
which triggered the formation of a working group [7] that
systematically addresses the issues that the bot has discovered (first
published in a GLAM newsletter piece [8] that has since been cited in
a related NISO recommendation [9]).

At Wikimania in London, I organized a session with Phil Bourne [10]
who runs the data science team at NIH [11], and in March this year, I
joined his team as a researcher, focusing on four areas [12]:
- exploring openness in research funding contexts
- helping design a research data Commons
- monitoring reuse of NIH resources
- engaging communities around research data

While none of this is specific to Wikimedia, we are quite conscious
that there is considerable room for interaction with Wikimedia
projects, especially with Wikidata, and happy to explore that room
together, be it individually, through WikiProjects, hackathons or
otherwise.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

[1] e.g.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLU/Wikipedian-in-Residence
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Jisc_Ambassador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Calicut_Medical_College/Department_of_Pathology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Naturalis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_CRUK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry

[2]
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NARA

[3]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15LOvRTorGOc764BX0r4_e7Ao6O3epgDwfk8gOfGfVdU/edit

[4]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#Collaboration_with_PubChem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Institutes_of_Health#NCBI_traffic_data

[5]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot

[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/Wikimania_2012/National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/JATS-Con_2014

[7]
http://jats4r.org/

[8]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2012/Contents/Open_Access_report#Metadata_at_PubMed_Central

[9]
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/14226/rp-22-2015_ALI.pdf

[10]
http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_Knowledge_and_the_National_Institutes_of_Health_of_the_United_States

[11]
http://datascience.nih.gov/

[12]
https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/datascience