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. *[email protected] <[email protected]> * *[email protected] <[email protected]>*
*[email protected] <[email protected]>* *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 9:18 PM Shani Evenstein Sigalov < [email protected]> wrote: > Heart-warming to read. Good luck with all your endeavors and if my > assistance is needed, I'm an email away. :) > > Shani. > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 8:28 PM Nkem Osuigwe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> *[email protected] <[email protected]> * >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> *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 < >> [email protected]> 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 -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>> [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
