FAIR and open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata and Wikipedia

Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform

Wikidata is a free, multilingual, open knowledge-base that stores structured, linked data. It has grown rapidly and as of December 2022 contains over 100 million items and millions of statements, making it the largest semantic knowledge-base in existence. Changing the interaction between people and knowledge, Wikidata offers various learning opportunities, leading to new applications in sciences, technology and cultures. These learning opportunities stem in part from the ability to query this data and ask questions that were difficult to answer in the past. They also stem from the ability to visualize query results, for example on a timeline or a map, which, in turn, helps users make sense of the data and draw additional insights from it. Research on the semantic web as learning platform and on Wikidata in the context of education is almost non-existent, and we are just beginning to understand how to utilize it for educational purposes. This research investigates the Semantic Web as a learning platform, focusing on Wikidata as a prime example. To that end, a methodology of multiple case studies was adopted, demonstrating Wikidata uses by early adopters. Seven semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted, out of which 10 distinct projects were extracted. A thematic analysis approach was deployed, revealing eight main uses, as well as benefits and challenges to engaging with the platform. The results shed light on Wikidata's potential as a lifelong learning process, enabling opportunities for improved Data Literacy and a worldwide social impact.

Open science in practice: 300 published research ideas and outcomes illustrate how RIO Journal facilitates engagement with the research process

Since Research Ideas and Outcomes was launched in late 2015, it has stimulated experimentation around the publication of and engagement with research processes, especially those with a strong open science component. Here, we zoom in on the first 300 RIO articles that have been published and elucidate how they relate to the different stages and variants of the research cycle, how they help address societal challenges and what forms of engagement have evolved around these resources, most of which have a nature and scope that would prevent them from entering the scholarly record via more traditional journals. Building on these observations, we describe some changes we recently introduced in the policies and peer review process at RIO to further facilitate engagement with the research process, including the establishment of an article collections feature that allows us to bring together research ideas and outcomes from within one research cycle or across multiple ones, irrespective of where they have been published.