Fifth British Library Labs (BL Labs) Symposium, Monday October 30, 2017.
10:05 – 11:00 Keynote ‘Open, Digital, Inclusive: Unleashing Knowledge’
Josie Fraser, Senior Technology Adviser on the National Technology Team, based in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the UK Government.
Josie will discuss the impact the open knowledge movement has had on education and learning. Looking at the powerful role that Wikimedia UK and Wikimedians have played in bringing UK cultural institutions and their digital collections to new and wider audiences, the talk will also explore how open knowledge partnerships are driving diversity and better representation for all online. She will invite the audience to join her in exploring ideas and opportunities for the future.
3. Happy Year of Open!
15 years ago:
• UNESCO adopt the term ‘Open Educational Resources’
• The Budapest Open Access Initiative was launched
• The first Creative Commons licenses were released
10 years ago:
• The Cape Town Open Education Declaration was written
5 years ago:
• The first Open Education Week took place
• The first OER World Congress was held, resulting in the Paris OER
Declaration
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4. • In Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017,
89% of adults in the UK had
recently used the internet up
from 88% in 2016; while 9% had
never used the internet, down
from 10% in 2016
• Virtually all adults aged 16 to 34
years were recent internet users
(99%), in contrast with 41% of
adults aged 75 years and over
• 90% of men and 88% of women
were recent internet users, up
from 89% and 86% in 2016
Office for National Statistics: Internet users in the
UK: 2017
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6. What happened? Short version
• The internet is mainstream
• The internet is people
• Digital content and relations build on and reinscribe
existing social conditions, including structural
inequalities
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7. Digital exclusion
“With the proliferation of the Internet, online violence
against women has taken on a global dimension. Online
crimes are not a ‘first world’ problem; they seamlessly
follow the spread of the Internet.”
UN Broadband Commission (2015)
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"We try to be inclusive but we fail
a lot. We need to design for
inclusivity, it doesn't just happen”
- Maha Bali, #OER17 (2017)
9. What happened? Short version
• There are still loads of great things about the internet
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What does
open
knowledge
mean?
14. What makes a resource open?
Cable Green (2016): “two conditions
that should guide your
determination as to whether or not
an item is considered ‘open’:
• Do you have ‘free and unfettered
access’ to the resource? If you have
to pay to retain or use a resource,
it isn't open.
• Is use of the resource governed by
David Wiley's 5Rs of
Openness permissions?”
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15. “Open data and content can
be freely used, modified, and
shared by anyone for any purpose”
The Open Definition http://opendefinition.org
16. Open practice
• Supporting the use and
production of open resources
• Accessibility
• Collaboration
• Development
• Co-production
• Inclusion
• Sustainability
• Privacy
• Public Value
• Flexibility
• Customisation/relevance
• Quality assurance
• Open licensing
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• Finale of BBC 100 Women
season December 2016
featured an international
edit-a-thon
#100WomenWiki
• Highest number of
entries about women
added to Wikipedia in a
single event, with more
than 400 new or updated
profiles
• Figures before the event
show around 17% of
notable profiles on
Wikipedia are of women
• Just 15% of Wikipedia's
volunteer editors are
female
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Image by Glamlogo.jpg: User:Husky and h3m3ls, Mischa de Muynck and Niels [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedian Residencies
21. Wikipedians in Residence
• In 2010, Australian Liam Wyatt became the first Wikipedian in
Residence when he volunteered at the British Museum for a period
of five weeks: ”We are doing the same thing for the same reason, for
the same people, in the same medium. Let's do it together."
• Wikimedia UK supported its first Wikimedian in Residence project at
the British Library in 2012. The project facilitated the re-use of the
collections in a number of areas from digitising and releasing
thousands of images of Canada, creating scores of articles about
Chinese Archaeology, and training over 400 staff, academics and
members of the public.
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22. • Liaises between the organization and
the Wikimedia community
• Promotes understanding of
Wikimedia among staff
• Formally coordinated by the
institution, allowing the resident to
work closely with staff for various
projects.
• Works with staff to organise, compile
and make resources digital
• Facilitates the community
improvement of content rather than
directly editing articles as a core goal.
• Coordinates events, including Edit-a-
Thons
• Builds partnerships between the
Wikimedia communities and an
organization
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23. Wikipedians in Residence
• Establish links between the organisation and open knowledge
communities
• Provide professional development and capacity building for
organisations
• Support organisational development of strategy and practice in
relation to outreach, engagement, profile raising, education
programmes, inclusion
• Increasing the use of collections for research, commerce, the arts and
learning and teaching
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24. Wikipedians in Residence: reach
• Bodleian Libraries 74 million views, 8007 files (2.88% in use)
• National Library of Scotland - 86 million views, 1445 files (24.5% in
use)
• National Library of Wales 334 million views, 16,464 files (53.9% in
use)
• University of Edinburgh 12 million views, 59 files (32.2% in use)
• Wellcome Images - 981 million views, 101,670 files* (4.73% in use)
*Wellcome statistics relate to the work of Wikimedia UK volunteers prior to the appointment of the resident, as well as the impact of the residency itself
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25. Wiki Cymru: gender equilibrium
• In the last few years many edit-a-thons have been
held in Wales encouraging people to write articles
on women.
• Steered by Wikimedia UK Wales Manager Robin
Owain and a strong and committed Welsh
Wikipedia community, supported by Swansea
University and the National Library of Wales
• The Welsh Wikipedia currently has nearly 90,000
articles and is ranked 60th largest out of a total of
284 language Wikipedias all over the world
• December 2016: 9,312 biographies on women and
8,123 of men on Welsh Wikipedia (up from 32% in
June 2016)
• “The number of biographies is now balanced,
which is a big achievement for a small Wikipedia,
but we now need to look at other factors such as
increasing the content of articles from being male
orientated, to being more balanced and gender
neutral.” - Robin Owain
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26. Celtic & indigenous languages 2017
• Appointment of the UK's first permanent Wikimedian, at the National
Library of Wales.
• The successful appointment and launch of the first Gaelic Wikimedian
in Residence, Dr Susan Ross, in partnership with the National Library
of Scotland
• Wikimedian in Residence at Scottish Libraries and Information Council
(SLIC)
• The first ‘Celtic Knot’ – Wikipedia Language Conference at the
University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Wikimedia UK
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27. Questions
• In what way(s) do you consider your practice to be
open already?
• What are your priorities? Could open approaches,
including connecting to open communities, help
these?
• What are your concerns about working in the open?
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Digitised and derivative works have far more views than original works
The open knowledge movement (including organisations such as Creative Commons, Mozilla and Wikimedia) are supporting free access to knowledge
The Open Education Consortium (OEC) announce the launch of the Year of Open (2017) to celebrate the positive impacts that open practices have brought to education, government, research and business. The Year of Open marks significant milestones for the Open Education Movement worldwide.
The UNESCO 2nd World OER Congress took place Ljubljana, Slovenia, this year (September 2017)
Maturity of the global movement
Wikimedia UK is the national charity for the global Wikimedia movement and enables people and organisations to contribute to a shared understanding of the world through the creation of open knowledge. We have a full programme of activity in 2017-18 with plans to build on our work with the cultural sector and beyond. The Wikimedian in Residence model continues to be a key strategic lever for our work in the UK, with the success of this programme underpinned by very thorough preparation, management, monitoring and evaluation of all our residencies, working in close partnership with the host institutions to ensure maximum online impact as well as substantial organisational change.
“Open licences, including the Creative Commons licences, provide educators and everyone else with a clear, simple way to specify how resources can be used and reused, and how the work should be credited.” OER Guidance for Schools (2014), by Björn Haßler, Helen Neo and Josie Fraser. Published by Leicester City Council, available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
http://www.josiefraser.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/OER-Guidance-for-Schools-2015.pdf
World Wide Web Foundation (September 2017) REACT with Gender-Responsive ICT Policy: The Key to Connecting the Next 4 Billion — finds that only a few governments have taken any action at the policy level to increase internet access and use among women. This research outlines the steps that governments must take to develop and implement gender-responsive policies that address the unique barriers to internet access and use faced by women, and calls on policymakers to REACT. That is, to create policy with women and for women focusing on:
RightsProtect and enhance everyone’s rights online.
Education
Use education to equip everyone – especially women – with the skills they need to access and use the web effectively.
AccessDeliver affordable access to an open web.
ContentEnsure relevant and empowering content for
women is available and used.
Targets
Keeping policymakers accountable.
British Library Labs Awards 2017
Research - A project or activity which shows the development of new knowledge, research methods, or tools.
Commercial - An activity that delivers or develops commercial value in the context of new products, tools, or services that build on, incorporate, or enhance the Library's digital content.
Artistic - An artistic or creative endeavor which inspires, stimulates, amazes and provokes.
Teaching / Learning - Quality learning experiences created for learners of any age and ability that use the Library's digital content.
As of 8 August 2017 there are 298 different language Wikipedia's of which 287 are active.