Transcript and slides from my keynote at the FLOSS UK Spring Conference in Edinburgh. Exploring the Open Knowledge Landscape from Lorna Campbell I’m not a programmer. I’m not a developer. And I don’t contribute directly to the creation of free and open source software. I originally started out as an Archaeologist but I now work in the […]
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I always struggle a bit when it comes to writing OER Conference reflections. I come back from the event buzzing with so many new ideas and connections and often with strong emotions too, and this year was no exception. So before I go any further I just want to say a huge thank you to […]
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Today is International Women’s Day, and as a passionate Wikipedian, I want to give a shout out to everyone who is working so hard to address the gender balance of articles on Wikipedia. It’s no secret that Wikipedia has a gender problem, here’s the encyclopedia’s own article on the topic: Gender bias on Wikipedia. On […]
Read moreSome of us are on strike. (I may have mentioned this before). Academic colleagues are holding ‘teach outs’. What kind of activity would be the learning technology version of a ‘teach out’? I’m thinking ‘making OER ‘and ‘wikimedia editathons’. I’ve asked a guru and been told that a ‘teach-out’ takes place outside the walls, has …
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In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia’s biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WikiProject Women in […]
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In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia’s biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WikiProject Women in […]
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The 6th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the song of a European Robin, or Robin Red Breast, from The British Library, and shared in the Europeana collection.
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The 5th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an image of the Callanish Stones on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Taken by our very own Lorna Campbell and uploaded to Wikipedia as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 event.
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Our 2nd ‘Twelve days of Open’ unwraps WikiBooks Christmas Recipes! Wikibooks one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone […]
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My colleague Anne-Marie Scott has written a lovely blog post about an obscure 17th century map of Iceland that was released under open licence by the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections and found fame on the Commons thanks to Wikipedia, the Euro 2016 Football Championships and Creative Common’s State of the Commons Report. […]
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