This file hosts the free-text parts of my application for MozOpenLeaders 2017 (the rest were basically multiple-choice questions or about personal information). It was submitted on January 6, 2017, to a January 20th deadline.
On March 16, I was notfied that I had been shortlisted but did not make it into the final list.
Tell us about your open project!
The project doesn’t have to be technical! It can be curriculum (open educational resource), an open data project or report, an open source software project, or anything else that has:
- a way for others to get involved
- a feature, release, or MVP (minimum viable product) to work on publicly with community members for the duration of the program
WikiProject Open Access
Leveraging the open-access literature in the context of Wikimedia projects
Integrating information from open-access resources into Wikimedia projects (especially Wikipedias, Wikisources, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata), i.e. locations and languages that people (and, increasingly, machines) use to look for such information; making readers aware of the openness of such information; curate bibliographic metadata of open-access publications.
March - June 2017
A Wikidata-based open bibliography of open-access articles cited on Wikimedia projects as a basis for new mechanisms for knowledge discovery, scientific collaboration and research assessment (demos at https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/venue/Q564954 or https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q202864 or https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/publisher/Q463494 ).
Multiple ways, e.g. https://github.com/wpoa or https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite .
Every day makes me aware of the limitations of my knowledge, skills and resources. When these limitations stand in the way of moving forward, working openly makes it much easier to bring in others, including people who I neither know personally nor via my network.
OR what has kept you from working open
Lots, e.g. non-open or unclear licensing of the things I'd like to work with; non-open formats; incomplete or inaccurate metadata; inconsistent usage of standards; conservative colleagues and institutional inertia.
I am interested in ways in which technology could be leveraged in the context of open knowledge projects. While an experienced contributor to open knowledge projects (e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/European_Commission_Open_Science_Policy_Platform or http://sparcopen.org/our-work/innovator/ or https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/open-science-prize ) and a mentor on matters of open science (e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Open_Science_Fellows_Program ), I have rather limited coding skills (cf. https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/learning2code ) and would like to tap into the technical expertise at Mozilla to guide my learning process here in a way that helps advance the open projects that I am engaging with.
Information on Wikimedia and Open Access is summarized in https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/15/wikimedia-and-open-access/ , with monthly updates in https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:This_Month_in_GLAM_Open_Access_reports .
I participated in past MozSprints. In 2016, I had suggested a project (cf. mozillascience/global-sprint-2016#53 ) but did not find others who wanted to join in, so I contributed to a related project (cf. mozillascience/global-sprint-2016#36 ).
My application is also available via https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/talks/blob/master/MozOpenLeaders-2017.md .