Open Access Media Importer: Plugging in your own data source
From the beginning, the Open Access Media Importer was intended to be modular. Only with the latest patches that feature has actually landed, as a result of decoupling interface and actual application...
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Until now, the amount of appropriately licensed data the Open Access Media Importer found was limited by a notable idiosyncrasy: The most straight-forward way of providing licensing information is an...
View ArticleOpen Access Media Importer: Almost works as advertised!
This month, after creating the upload functionality (oa-cache upload-media), my Laptop’s SSD died. Since, by habit, I only push feature-complete commits I lost the entire upload routine. Additionally,...
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Open Access Media Importer: Usage and Statistics
A few days ago, at Wikimedia‘s free culture brunch I met up with Daniel Mietchen. He will talk about the Open Access Media Importer at Wikimania. Seeing another person trying to use the software...
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Open Access Media Importer: Database, Upload Testing
Since the last post, I rewrote the Open Access Media Importer to use a proper database – SQLite – instead of CSV text files. This step should aid both maintainability and performance; while generating...
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Open Access Media Importer: Page Templates, Automatic Import
Since the last post, most work was done on page templates for uploaded media files. Page names are now based on article titles and both the database and pages created by the Open Access Media Importer...
View ArticleOpen Access Media Importer: Presentation at WMDE, Collaborative Coding
Last Friday, I visited Wikimedia Deutschland to conduct a presentation on the current state of the Open Access Media Importer (slides), which is funded by WMDE. Attending were project manager Nicole...
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Reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing research
A contribution to the PLOS blog on the occasion of Open Access Week. Introduction The initial purpose of Open Access is to enable researchers to make use of information already known to science as part...
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Open Access Media Importer progress report: October & November
The OAMI development process was streamlined to better incorporate feedback: We now use GitHub issues. Tickets are prioritized according to tags similar to a scheme used by Kathrin Passig in 2010: The...
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Open Access Report November 2012
Since January, I have been posting a monthly summary of Open-Access-related activities pertaining to Wikimedia projects as part of the GLAM Newsletter on the Wikimedia Outreach wiki. I am posting these...
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