SciCom Wiki - FAIR knowledge infrastructure for educational content
| MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 | |
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| SciCom Wiki—FAIR knowledge infrastructure for educational content | |
| Talk details | |
| Description: | SciCom Wiki describes scientific and educational content such as videos and podcasts. This talk highlights our journey from concept in 2021 to non-profit establishment in 2023. |
| Speaker(s): | Tim Wittenborg |
| Slides: | see here |
| Type: | Talk |
| Audience: | Developers, Community, Academics, Admins, New users |
| Event start: | 2024/11/06 12:30:00 |
| Event finish: | 2024/11/06 13:00:00 |
| Length: | 30 minutes |
| Video: | click here |
| Keywords: | collaboration, educational resources, fair data, science communication, semantic data management |
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The talk as Slides and Video: 
The description of this talk is best summed up by the master thesis survey that launched the same day as this conference, 04.11.2024:
While contributing your insights, you will get a good overview what our project is about:
Nontheless, a formal description:
We invite to discuss the "SciCom Wiki," a wiki to semantically describe scientific and educational content that broadly reaches citizens, such as videos and podcasts. We envision a repository for content data such as transcripts of science communication media as well as meta-data such as authorship, platforms, topics etc. This enables the collection and visualization of decentralized insights, providing a valuable resource for researchers and communicators.
We started conceptualizing in 2021, founded as a NPO in 2023 and manage our sparse resources to slowly achieve our goals. This talk is one further step we have been recommended to take from fellow Wikipedians, preceded by our GPN22 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDHrcTQED_U
Likely the best description of the project is the startsocial scholarship application (German), the GPN22 talk (German) and the website.
Organized as a non-profit charitable organization, collaborating with organizations such as the TIB and WMDE, we are still building up this project. It is intended to be a long-term solution, developed and grown over the coming decade to eventually structure information for already accessible, educationally valuable content.
