User:Daniel Mietchen/FORCE 2017

This page contains my notes about the Force 2017 conference taking place on October 25-27 in Berlin. For the overall conference schedule, see here, and the hashtag is #Force2017.

Tuesday, October 24

On the day before the conference itself, an event brought together a technically focused community for Annotating All Knowledge Coalition F2F at FORCE2017: Making Annotations FAIR: Supporting Researcher Workflow Through Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Data Principles. Despite the unwieldy title, it was a lively exchange with lots of demos of tools and platforms that implement some of the ideas floating around in this space. There was also some tweeting under the hashtag #osbazaar.

• The program of the event sits at Eventbrite.
• While listening to all the demos and presentations throughout the morning, I thought it would be good to have a brief demo on how annotations could be linked with Wikidata as well. The schedule was flexible enough to accommodate that, and so I am now preparing a few talking points for this intervention.

Annotations and Wikidata

Datamodel in Wikidata

• using Wikidata identifiers for annotations
  • Web annotations
    • if no dedicated ontology is available (and openly licensed), use Wikidata identifiers to link tags from annotations
      • e.g.
        • Kalkscheune (Q1488908) for things related to the Kalkscheune
        • love (Q316) instead of the string "love" in your language
    • also for scientific articles
      • examples:
        • WormBase 2016: expanding to enable helminth genomic research (Q28269956)
        • Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature (Q42309525)
      • integrated with
        • PMID
        • PMCID
        • DOI
        • cites
        • ORCID
        • and lots of other identifiers
    • Putative Wikidata property: "has annotation", similar to has melody (P1625), has contributing factor (P1479), has active ingredient (P3781), has cause (P828) or has grammatical case (P2989)
  • Domain-specific annotations
    • genome annotations
      • Wikigenomes
        • Chlambase
• reuse annotations to support statements in Wikidata
  • example
• Using annotations for peer review
  • example
• Annotations of non-text stuff
  • e.g. annotating papers as to whether shared code actually runs (automatically) at a given point in time and under standardized conditions
    • Jupyter notebooks
  • Audio/ video/ 3D?
  • annotating people/ organizations/ publishers/ journals etc. with annotations about the works they published
    • Scholia
      • Author
    • example
• Citations from Wikipedia/ DOI event data as annotations of articles
  • example
    • annotation by topic: papers cited from the Malaria article are somewhat relevant for malaria
    • annotation by reusability: OA tags

Wednesday, October 25

I shall be in the Galerie (Gallery) room almost all day. The registration desk has the phone numbers of the organizing committee members, including mine.

• Keynote by Christopher Jackson, "Open Access, Impact Factors, and other Animals: My First Year"
• Sessions I am chairing
  • Ubiquitous Open Access: Changing culture by integrating OA into user workflows
  • Research Enablement Metrics - Assessing the Impact of Being Willing to Share
  • Scholarship in the Global South and the Open Access: a study of India
  • Research innovations and open science practices in Eastern Europe
  • Nurturing Indigenous Capacities for Culture-centric Innovations: a Cross-sectional Study
  • Unconference pitching