GLAM/Newsletter/May 2014/Contents/Open Access report
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WikiProject Open Access launched on the English Wikisource
Zürich Hackathon
During the Zürich Hackathon 2014, WikiProject Open Access was launched on the English Wikisource.
Furthermore, progress was made in the Open Access Signalling project in a number of ways: building on previous work on the most cited DOIs on the English Wikipedia (see April report), the DOIs issued by publishers whose articles are mostly openly licensed were identified. Of the 9327 DOIs cited at least once from mainspace pages on the English Wikipedia, 250 were cited at least five times, and 49 at least ten times. Of these, nine were selected to test automated import into Wikisource, for which a pipeline was then developed and tested, with the results being made available via a subpage of the newly founded WikiProject Open Access. More details here. In parallel, previews of new icons for Wikimedia projects became available, which fit neatly into the concept of the Open Access Signalling project.
GitHub organization
In the wake of the hackathon, WikiProject Open Access has set up an organization account at GitHub, in order to bring together its various software development projects and to facilitate wider participation. It can be found at https://github.com/wpoa and currently contains eight repositories, including those for the Open Access Media Importer (Python), the Open Access Signalling project (mainly in Python) and the Cite-o-Meter (PHP).
Wikimania sessions
Several sessions related to Open Access and Open Scholarship have been accepted for Wikimania, including
- Marking open-access references cited on Wikipedia
- Open Access & Wikipedia: A Panel Discussion
- Open Knowledge and the National Institutes of Health of the United States
- Open Scholarship Tools - a whirlwind tour.
- The fount of all knowledge - wikipedia as the front matter to all research.
Open Access Media Importer
The following represents a selection of the ca. 300 files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total to over 16,400. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.
Open Access File of the Day
The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day this month:
May 31: Workers of the bee Melipona interrupta killing a queen.
May 30: A Manta alfredi while foraging.
May 29: The beetle Diacheila arctica.
May 28: the bee Bombus transversalis
May 27: Hand positions during wheel-throwing pottery.
May 26: eye pattern of the spider Acanthoctenus
May 25: The lizard Bronchocela marmorata.
May 24: Original position of fossil remains of the dinosaur Seitaad ruessi.
May 23: The freshwater snail Mexipyrgus churinceanus.
May 22: the grouper Epinephelus flavolimbatus
May 21: the moth Acontia ruffinellii
May 20: Song of the sparrow Spizella passerina.
May 19: Dendrelaphis caudolineatus
May 18: appearance of posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy
May 17: the extinct sweat bee Oligochlora
May 16: the plant Phoebe hunanensis
May 15: shell of Diplopoma species
May 14: the starfish Squamophis albozosteres
May 13: reproductive Structures of the Phytophthora, which are water molds
May 12: the skink Lamprolepis smaragdina
May 11: the beetle Giesbertiolus linnaei
May 10: a visualization of enzyme catalysis
May 9: a tropical plant of genus Monodora
May 8: skull of Nigersaurus
May 7: acoustic monitoring of an iceberg
May 6: the very long worm Lineus longissimus
May 5: The firefly Phosphaenus hemipterus.
May 4: the frog Dendrobates sylvaticus
May 3: Coryphopterus dicrus.
May 2: profile of patient with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
May 1: Amphitomeus attemsi.
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