Thanks for this, Shani. It came just at the right time as African librarians began a journey into Wikidata. I will share the link with participants in AfLIA's Wikidata course.
Thank you. Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosui...@aflia.net <neosui...@aflia.net> * *drnkemosui...@gmail.com <drnkemosui...@gmail.com>* *nkemek...@ymail.com <nkemek...@ymail.com>* *Website: www.aflia.net <http://www.aflia.net>* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram *"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein* On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 3:29 PM Shani Evenstein Sigalov < shani.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Excited to share that my article "Investigating the potential of the > semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform > <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-023-11664-1>" has > finally > been published in an excellent journal "Education and Information > Technologies" by Springer Nature. This has been a long time coming, and > essentially the very first publication directly from my PhD research. > > It's worth noting that to those who know Wikidata, the article would > probably not share anything new you haven't heard before; but it really was > a missing piece in academic research, in terms of making the case for > Wikidata as a learning platform for educators and researchers who are not > familiar with it, so it's really great to finally have such a resource > available. > It's also a good moment to thank again the amazing Wikidata Community, and > specifically all the people who filled out the questionnaire way back when > and later interviewed, for this to happen. In this specific article, I was > directly drawing from the work of Martin Poulter, Richard Knipel & Andrew > Lih, João Alexandre Peschanski, Toby Hudson & Daniel Mietchen. > Thank you all for the inspiration! > > Best, > Shani. > > PS -- if you can't view the link and are interested, do drop me a line and > I'll send the PDF your way. > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
