Impatiens' species: Structuring World University's Data - Main Foci, "[Wikidata] Goal: Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations," Unfortunately, WUaS doesn't yet have anyone to build our ~ 700 Wikia WUaS pages in Wikidata as a database, both Wikidata's as well as World University's openness seem in part to have to do with Creative Commons' licensing and in part with the framework you're creating for which WUaS is especially grateful.

Quim and Jane,

Off-list first ... 

Structuring WUaS open data further here:

Please remember each WUaS wiki subject page is a school too for open teaching and learning.

In CC World Universities's cases, the value of the framework in structuring data in the following order first

- Languages (Wikipedia's 288 to all 7929+ for an {Universal Translator})

- Nation States (law and accreditation questions)

- You at WUaS (students and open learners/teacher ~ 5.4 billion people)

- Library resources (every book a Q-item with Wikidata statements and properties)

- Music School (all instruments all languages, each a wiki subject page to begin; sound and video)

- Museums (aggregate all in all languages and which have online free content)

- Courses and Schools (CC MIT OCW- and Yale OYC-centric in All languages, and toward degrees)

- Subjects (academic and open-ended and creative)

- Research (STEM / academic, inter-lingual)

- Educational Software (all in most languages)

- Hardware resource possibilities (in most languages)

(... see this for beginning links to above schools - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/01/natural-platform-world-univ-sch-would.html), ... 

for this Wiki Loves Open Data / WLOD Wikidata framework, is that ... 

WUaS is an open data organization which would like 

a) to contribute our open data, 

b)  in terms of "a framework useful to you (WUaS), useful to Wikimedia," and 

c) WUaS is an

"* Open data organization [which] has a subset of interesting data that could be used to improve Wikimedia wikis after being added to Wikidata" ....

d) because WUaS offers far-reaching and comprehensive extensibility not yet a part of Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikimedia, beginning with CC World University and School's plans for structured data, and furthermore starting with ALL languages and All countries ... 

In terms of the open data framework for engineers that you're seeking, Quim, to facilitate integrating open data projects into Wikidata ... and "establishing a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations" ... 

Data here is: 

"facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. See also datum.

• Computing the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, being stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media."

And structured data in terms of databases is: 

"a structured set of data held in a computer, especially one that is accessible in various ways" (Apple Dictionary 2.x).

In terms of Lydia's observation that WLOD "should probably have a concept for how to integrate with the existing pages
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Data_donation and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Data_access" - where WUaS has postings, I think your WLOD framework already does this, and her adding these to the new Phabricator page - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104701 (vis-a-vis the one you began here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101950) - is the beginning of this.  

Unfortunately, WUaS doesn't yet have anyone to build our ~ 700 Wikia WUaS pages in Wikidata as a database.

More later to this thread in the Wikidata list ... 

Thank you, Scott

Thanks, Quim. You're right that Wikia is not a Wikimedia project but Jimmy Wales is the head of both interestingly. 

Thanks for the clarification that "Wiki Loves Open Data [:)] should guide organizations through the process of contributing content to Wikidata" ... and World University looks forward to learning how this will work. (I also just posted my email of 30 minutes ago to you and Jane here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/impatiens-species-structuring-world.html - in terms of WUaS's ~ 10 main foci/areas). 

In terms of a technical definition of open data, I see data here as ... 

and both Wikidata's as well as World University's openness seem in part to have to do with Creative Commons' licensing and in part with the framework you're creating, Quim, for which WUaS is especially grateful. 

Thank you and cheers, 

Scott

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