Dr Martin Poulter was employed by the Bodleian Libraries half-time, from October 2016 to October 2019, funded by the university's IT Innovation Challenges and by the university's Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) Division, as the Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford. The project is titled "Embedding Innovative use of Wikimedia across the University" and involved working with Wikimedia UK and with staff in the university to foster a step-change in how the university supports Wikimedia-related activity. The phase of work that continued to October 2019 was focused on how Wikidata can be used as a platform for publishing Linked Open Data about the collections and research resources in the university.
This placement follows on from the Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries funded by Wikimedia UK, which ran from April 2015 to March 2016.
A global ranking issued in October 2016 put Oxford as the top university in Europe and 6th in the world. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, announced in September 2017, put Oxford at number 1 in the world.
An overview of the work funded by the IT Innovation Fund is given in the blog post "Embedding Innovative use of Wikimedia across the University".
During the placement I worked with a variety of research projects on activities that would improve their impact.
Project | Interest | Example outcome | Write-up |
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The Voltaire Foundation | raising awareness of Voltaire as a historian | Interactive timeline of Voltaire works, including all historical works | "If Voltaire had used Wikipedia…" |
Cultures of Knowledge | visualisations of the Early Modern Letters Online database | Interactive map of birthplaces of people in the Early Modern Letters Online database | See "Reconciling database identifiers with Wikidata" |
Oxford Research Archive (ORA) | sharing links to digitised theses and linking them from Wikipedia biographies | Created
Wikidata Property P4101. Bulk dump of metadata about 3238 doctoral theses, with links from Wikipedia gradually being added |
"A step forward in the sharing of open data about theses" |
Electronic Enlightenment | a timeline of Enlightenment authors, and encouraging the creation of Wikipedia articles about authors in EE; offering accounts via The Wikipedia Library | Created Wikidata property P3429: Electronic Enlightenment ID. 3101 links imported, enabling a range of queries. EE access added to the OUP Scholarship Wikipedia Library arrangement. | "Reconciling database identifiers with Wikidata" |
Transcribing an out-of-copyright biographical dictionary | s:A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 | "Turning a historical book into a data set" | |
RitualModes | Rescuing a deleted article and getting more lay summaries of concepts into Wikipedia. This is a five-year project that began in late 2016, so deliverables mostly outside scope of current funding. | Wikipedia articles on Identity fusion and Modes of religiosity | "Deletion is not the end: making an academic article stick on Wikipedia" |
The Hillforts Atlas Project | importing hillfort-related material into Wikidata and English Wikipedia; uploading site images to Wikimedia Commons | Created
Wikidata Property P4102. Project page for making use of imported data to improve Wikipedia. Wikidata queries |
"Creating Wikipedia articles from research data" |
Vestiges: Traces of Record journal | Journal-to-Wiki publishing of biographies of Africans | New articles on
Cameroon Press Photo Archive,
Jacques Toussele Biographical notes coming June onwards |
"Extending the reach of a journal with Journal-to-Wiki publishing" |
Women In German Studies | Training academics and postgraduates in contributing to Wikipedia and contributing translations to Wikisource | Training workshop | |
Beazley Archive Pottery Database | Sharing selected fields from the database on Wikidata |
I also took opportunities to deliver customised training workshops or presentations for specific audiences.
Duration of residency: 24 October 2016 to 23 October 2017
1st Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
24 October-30 November 2016 | 15 December 2016 | Read the full report |
2nd Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 December-31 December 2016 | 5 January 2017 | Read the full report |
3rd Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 January-31 January 2017 | 9 February 2017 | Read the full report |
4th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 February-28 February 2017 | 7 March 2017 | Read the full report |
5th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 March-31 March 2017 | 11 April 2017 | Read the full report |
6th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 April-5 May 2017 | 8 May 2017 | Read the full report |
7th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
6 May-31 May 2017 | 6 June 2017 | Read the full report |
8th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 June-30 June 2017 | 18 July 2017 | Read the full report |
9th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 July-31 July 2017 | 1 August 2017 | Read the full report |
Dr Martin Poulter was employed by the Bodleian Libraries half-time, from October 2016 to October 2019, funded by the university's IT Innovation Challenges and by the university's Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) Division, as the Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford. The project is titled "Embedding Innovative use of Wikimedia across the University" and involved working with Wikimedia UK and with staff in the university to foster a step-change in how the university supports Wikimedia-related activity. The phase of work that continued to October 2019 was focused on how Wikidata can be used as a platform for publishing Linked Open Data about the collections and research resources in the university.
This placement follows on from the Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries funded by Wikimedia UK, which ran from April 2015 to March 2016.
A global ranking issued in October 2016 put Oxford as the top university in Europe and 6th in the world. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, announced in September 2017, put Oxford at number 1 in the world.
An overview of the work funded by the IT Innovation Fund is given in the blog post "Embedding Innovative use of Wikimedia across the University".
During the placement I worked with a variety of research projects on activities that would improve their impact.
Project | Interest | Example outcome | Write-up |
---|---|---|---|
The Voltaire Foundation | raising awareness of Voltaire as a historian | Interactive timeline of Voltaire works, including all historical works | "If Voltaire had used Wikipedia…" |
Cultures of Knowledge | visualisations of the Early Modern Letters Online database | Interactive map of birthplaces of people in the Early Modern Letters Online database | See "Reconciling database identifiers with Wikidata" |
Oxford Research Archive (ORA) | sharing links to digitised theses and linking them from Wikipedia biographies | Created
Wikidata Property P4101. Bulk dump of metadata about 3238 doctoral theses, with links from Wikipedia gradually being added |
"A step forward in the sharing of open data about theses" |
Electronic Enlightenment | a timeline of Enlightenment authors, and encouraging the creation of Wikipedia articles about authors in EE; offering accounts via The Wikipedia Library | Created Wikidata property P3429: Electronic Enlightenment ID. 3101 links imported, enabling a range of queries. EE access added to the OUP Scholarship Wikipedia Library arrangement. | "Reconciling database identifiers with Wikidata" |
Transcribing an out-of-copyright biographical dictionary | s:A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 | "Turning a historical book into a data set" | |
RitualModes | Rescuing a deleted article and getting more lay summaries of concepts into Wikipedia. This is a five-year project that began in late 2016, so deliverables mostly outside scope of current funding. | Wikipedia articles on Identity fusion and Modes of religiosity | "Deletion is not the end: making an academic article stick on Wikipedia" |
The Hillforts Atlas Project | importing hillfort-related material into Wikidata and English Wikipedia; uploading site images to Wikimedia Commons | Created
Wikidata Property P4102. Project page for making use of imported data to improve Wikipedia. Wikidata queries |
"Creating Wikipedia articles from research data" |
Vestiges: Traces of Record journal | Journal-to-Wiki publishing of biographies of Africans | New articles on
Cameroon Press Photo Archive,
Jacques Toussele Biographical notes coming June onwards |
"Extending the reach of a journal with Journal-to-Wiki publishing" |
Women In German Studies | Training academics and postgraduates in contributing to Wikipedia and contributing translations to Wikisource | Training workshop | |
Beazley Archive Pottery Database | Sharing selected fields from the database on Wikidata |
I also took opportunities to deliver customised training workshops or presentations for specific audiences.
Duration of residency: 24 October 2016 to 23 October 2017
1st Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
24 October-30 November 2016 | 15 December 2016 | Read the full report |
2nd Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 December-31 December 2016 | 5 January 2017 | Read the full report |
3rd Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 January-31 January 2017 | 9 February 2017 | Read the full report |
4th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 February-28 February 2017 | 7 March 2017 | Read the full report |
5th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 March-31 March 2017 | 11 April 2017 | Read the full report |
6th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 April-5 May 2017 | 8 May 2017 | Read the full report |
7th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
6 May-31 May 2017 | 6 June 2017 | Read the full report |
8th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 June-30 June 2017 | 18 July 2017 | Read the full report |
9th Month Report | ||
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Period Covered | Date of Report | Link |
1 July-31 July 2017 | 1 August 2017 | Read the full report |