2024:Program/New money for old rope: repurposing open knowledge from Wikidata
Session title: New money for old rope: repurposing open knowledge from Wikidata
- Session type: Poster
- Track: Open Data
- Language: en
In the final year of their Computer Science degree, students are required to understand a substantial piece of research as part of their Honours project. This year, five students have undertaken projects inspired by Wikidata, the Glasgow Women's Library, and the Scottish Brick Museum. This poster outlines the practicalities involved in collaborating with external partners on Honours projects, as well as sharing the outputs from the students’ projects. All projects received ethical approval from the University of St Andrews School of Computer Science Ethics Committee for eliciting user feedback.
Description
[edit | edit source]Aim: to share the pros and cons of collaborating with undergraduate students to plug specific knowledge gaps on Wikidata. Objectives: for visitors to be interested in our projects and to provide feedback on any changes they would like to see. To share the outputs of the students’ hard work reusing Wikidata.
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[edit | edit source]Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Dr Kirsty Ross
- Dr Kirsty Ross joined the Wikimedia community in August 2019, at a training session delivered by @Stinglehammer. In 2021, she, along with Dr Sara Thomas (Wikimedia UK) and Dr Abd Alsattar Ardati, co-founded the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Open Knowledge Network (IDEA Network for short) at the University of St Andrews. She won the Up and Coming Wikipedian of the Year (UK) in 2022 for her efforts with the IDEA Network. Since then, she has explored a plethora of ways to integrate Wiki projects into teaching, knowledge exchange, and research. Kirsty likes to hang out primarily on Wikicommons and Wikidata, with occasional forays into Wikipedia. She considers herself to be a WikiShepherd.