Dⓐniel Mietchen
Open Science with public version history. Work: @UVADSI; Volunteer: @Wikimedia @RIOJournal @OKFN. Avatar: MRI of a belemnite. Tweets: CC0; attribution welcome.
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UVA-Built Nano-Spacecraft is Launched Into Space
A three-year spacecraft design project undertaken by a succession of undergraduate engineering students culminated Wednesday in a spectacular rocket launch. Now the students will track their craft from UVA.
Being a Black Academic in America
We asked African-American scholars about race, merit, and belonging. Here’s what they told us.
ARL White Paper on Wikidata Highlights Use of Open Knowledge in Scholarly Communication, Special Collections
In a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and...
Brian Nosek - Shifting incentives from getting it published to getting it right
The currency of academic science is publishing. Producing novel, positive, and clean results maximises the likelihood of publishing success because those are...
Katie Bouman - Story | Science Stories
Visually learn about Katie Bouman. View the Katie Bouman Science Story that compiles the multimedia (images, videos, pictures, works, etc.) found throughout the web and enriches their content using Wikimedia via Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Commons...
Designing Open Hardware for 21st century science
Designing Open Hardware for 21st century science - talk given by Andre Maia Chagas on 10 April 2019 at TU Delft. In his talk Andre explained the principles behind Open Hardware and also the benefits of Open Hardware practices. This talk was part of...
Sharing research along the entire research cycle
Sharing research along the entire research cycle with UVA Data Scientist Daniel Mietchen
Human societies engage in research in order to advance their understanding and mastery of the world they inhabit. Part of this involves the sharing of various...
2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris
2019 fire at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, France
Dⓐniel Mietchen
Here's what Wikidata has on the #NotreDame fire, including links to the respective articles in 20 Wikipedias
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Property talk:P2093 - Wikidata
Dⓐniel Mietchen
The usage of #Wikidata property P2093 author name string is finally starting to go down (see "Usage history" at wikidata.org/wiki/Property_… ).
Likely the result of a combination of slowed-down imports and scaled-up curation, which turns strings into identified authors.
#WikiCite pic.twitter.com/SxpOk8fH0m
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Transcript of "How to take a picture of a black hole"
TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a...
A map of Copenhagen is taking fun out of the Guessr game · Issue #1152 · Daniel-Mietchen/ideas
Dⓐniel Mietchen
The #Wikidata-based Guessr game asks players to guess the geolocation of a photo. Now, a map of Copenhagen is taking the fun out of it, since it is used on dozens of items. Anyone wanna join in to get this fixed?
github.com/Daniel-Mietche…
cc @wikimediadk .
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Early Career Reseachers and Open Healthcare
Presentation given at NUI, Galway 2019-04-11 for Open Science Week. An overview of Early Career Researchers, their innovation and contribution towards Open In…
Support the Africa OSH Summit 2019 in Tanzania
The Africa OSH Summit is a grassroots effort to bring together researchers, technologists, hacker hobbyists, educators, government officials, and start-up innovators around the world. The 2nd summit will be held in Tanzania from April 10-13, 2019.
How Wikidata aims to catalogue everything | CBC Radio
Wikidata is the database that underlies Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikimedia. It automatically updates to reflect changes to all those wiki entries and helps give us confidence that when we look up information about a topic, we're all talking about the...
Red Hat Jobs - Explore Open Source Career Opportunities & Apply Online
Dⓐniel Mietchen
Interesting #datajob:
Director of Enterprise #DataArchitecture and #DataGovernance at @RedHat #Linux #opensource
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4_CC_Front_Scale and connect communities
Useful links: back to the Unconference homepage Back to the Unconference schedule How to effectively scale and connect communities RDA growing very quickly and support, manage, enable effectively Tagging session with the topics that they will...
Dⓐniel Mietchen
Room plan for #RDAUnconfP13 Session 4. I'll be discussing how to integrate research databases with #Wikidata docs.google.com/document/d/1Nc… pic.twitter.com/jKKDs5y7xD
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Useful links: back to the Unconference homepage Back to the Unconference schedule Creating Data Management Plans for specific kinds of disasters, e.g., earthquakes or disease outbreaks Attendees: Daniel Mietchen, University of Virginia (remotely...
Dⓐniel Mietchen
Summary of #RDAunconfP13 session on Data Management Plans for specific kinds of disasters:
Handling disasters requires integrating data of various kinds. Taking inspiration from data management plans can help improve such integration. #rdaplenary
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2_CA_Front_Benchmarking data services in research institutions
Useful links: back to the Unconference homepage Back to the Unconference schedule Benchmarking data services in research institutions Attendees: Pascal Suppers, DataHub Maastricht, NL, [email protected] Mervyn O Luing, Insight...