CERN Computing Seminar

Wikimedia as a platform for scientific information

by Daniel Mietchen (Open Knowledge Foundation guest)

Europe/Zurich
IT Auditorium (CERN)

IT Auditorium

CERN

Description

During this presentation the topics that will touched upon include various ways in which wikis are being used in scientific research and publishing, currently, as well as some that are more speculative. Many of the examples are drawn from the biological sciences, and the talk is intended to stimulate debate as to how the physics community - and CERN in particular - can enhance its interaction with the Wikimedia community, or via Wikimedia with the public at large. For instance:

His talk is being drafted in public on Wikipedia, see here.

About the speaker

Daniel Mietchen is a freelancing scientist, trained in Biophysics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition to his conventional research, he works on the integration of research workflows with the World Wide Web, particularly by way of collaborative platforms like wikis. He is the Wikimedian in Residence for Open Science, hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Germany.


Organised by: Miguel Angel Marquina
Computing Seminars /IT Department

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