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Open, Digital, Inclusive: Unleashing Knowledge
- 1. Open, Digital, Inclusive: Unleashing Knowledge Josie Fraser British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 2. British Library Labs @josiefraser #yearofopen
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
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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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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) British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 8. British Library Labs @josiefraser "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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
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- 11. Alexia web rankings October 2017 UK 1. Google.co.uk 2. Youtube.com 3. Google.com 4. Facebook.com 5. Reddit.com 6. Amazon.co.uk 7. Bbc.co.uk 8. Wikipedia.org 9. Ebay.co.uk 10. Twitter.com Global 1. Google.com 2. Youtube.com 3. Facebook.com 4. Baidu.com 5. Wikipedia.org 6. Yahoo.com 7. Google.co.in 8. Reddit.com 9. Qq.com 10. Taobao.com British Library Labs @josiefraser
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- 13. British Library Labs @josiefraser CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 - Asian Development Bank 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?” British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
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- 19. British Library Labs @josiefraser • 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
- 20. British Library Labs @josiefraser 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. British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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 British Library Labs @josiefraser
- 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? British Library Labs @josiefraser
Editor's Notes
- #2: 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
- #3: 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.
- #4: The UNESCO 2nd World OER Congress took place Ljubljana, Slovenia, this year (September 2017) Maturity of the global movement
- #13: 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.
- #16: “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
- #18: 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: Rights Protect 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. Access Deliver affordable access to an open web. Content Ensure relevant and empowering content for women is available and used. Targets Keeping policymakers accountable.
- #24: 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.
- #27: As of 8 August 2017 there are 298 different language Wikipedia's of which 287 are active.