Wikidata talk:Requests for comment/How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?
Step 1: Modelling curricula on Wikidata[edit]
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Step 2: Linking to relevant educational resources[edit]Comments here Existing examples / resources
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Step 3: Importing the data into Wikidata systematically[edit]Comments here
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Step 4: Providing ways for people to find and access the information[edit]Reciprocal links[edit]I believe it is important to not only link curricula to resources, but also the other way around. That way, if you come across one resource, you can easily see which curricula it aims to help towards. It will also make it easier to "traverse up" to find related resources from the curricula. Practically, it will also be a very nice feature for future infoboxes on Wikiversity and Wikibooks. Ainali (talk) 09:50, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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General discussion[edit]Comments here
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Main questions[edit]Use cases[edit]Which additional use cases are there within and external to Wikimedia projects?[edit]Which audiences could this data be useful to?[edit]Inclusiveness[edit]How to include educational material providers in discussions about contribution and reuse?[edit]How to make this a usable and useful resource for the people with the knowledge on resources available, e.g teachers[edit]How to make it useful for content producers to map their work to e.g Khan Academy[edit]Structural issues in Wikidata[edit]How to encourage consistent modelling of data to make it more usable? e.g clear schemas and Wikidata:Tours[edit] | |
Australian Educational Vocabulary: Schools Online Thesaurus[edit]
Hi all. I thought I'd chip in with something related that is already in process. Schools Online Thesaurus (Q65000093) (ScOT) is a controlled vocabulary of educational terms used in Australian and New Zealand School curricula. The terms are arranged hierarchically, with some language translations and linked interrelations. These terms are then used to tag the Australian curriculum and various catalogue information services, which allow teachers access to educational resources related to these terms. I'm not a teacher, so don't quite understand the behind the scenes usage (not always open data) of these terms. However, I did notice that Wikidata does a better job of language translation and interrelation linking, so it is useful to make a mapping between their terms and our items. There is already a property at Australian Educational Vocabulary ID (P7033), and a Mix'n'match catalog 2708. Linking is laborious work because the terms can be about any type of concept. But I've put in many hours on the train, and we have about 65% of the terms mapped already. I would very much appreciate anyone else helping out with the matching. Once complete, I forsee some nice visualisations of what the curriculum looks like as a mind map, but also tools to allow navigation around related terms and to relevant curriculum resources. So please do help match. I'd appreciate comments or questions on how it might be more valuable. And if it is a useful model for other curricula, then do feel free to follow this path. h/t User:Pru.mitchell for alerting me to this discussion. --99of9 (talk) 01:28, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- For example, here is a query showing a snippet of the Wikidata enhanced mindmap of terms in ScOT centred around chemical element (Q11344). --99of9 (talk) 01:33, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you very much @99of9:, --John Cummings (talk) 09:33, 12 May 2020 (UTC)