Editing Mika/Temp/WikiFCD/Course

This page is for planning a course on how to contribute to and use data from WikiFCD.

= About the course=

This course aims to introduce students to 1) the issues surrounding FCDs in global nutrition research and 2) the concept of peer production. Students will gain knowledge and practical skills to engage directly in building a global food composition database. 

The course will have two parts. During the first term, the students will learn about peer production and how to contribute to Wiki-based projects. In the second term, students will learn to use the data from WikiFCD to explore their own research questions while they continue to also contribute various FCDs to WikiFCD.

=Schedule=

* JHSPH has 4 terms (7 weeks each; 39-40 instruction days) + 1 summer term (8 weeks) and 1 winter intersession term (2 weeks):
: Summer Term: Wednesday, July 1 - Wednesday, August 26 (39 class days)
: 1st Term: Monday, August 31 - Monday, October 26 (40 class days)
: 2nd Term: Tuesday, October 27 - Wednesday, December 23 (39 class days)
: Winter Intersession: Monday, January 4 - Friday, January 15
: 3rd Term: Monday,  January 25 - Friday, March 19 (39 class days)
: 4th Term: Monday,  March 29 - Friday, May 21 (40 class days)

* If we can teach in the 1st and/or 2nd term, that would be nice for the grant application to be submitted in November.
* It seems it's about 1 hour instruction time per credit. Students register 16 credits per semester (2 terms).
* Aim for meet once a week for 2 hours = 2 credits?

=Course Aims=

# To learn about issues with FCDs in global nutrition research
# To learn about peer production
# To learn about Wikidata and Wikibase
# To learn how to contribute to WikiFCD
# To learn how to use data from WikiFCD

=Structure of the course=

* Lecture
* Lab
* Individual projects

=Course schedule=

== 1st term: Aim 1 through 4 ==

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! Week !! Aim/Learning objectives !! Content !! Assignment !! Assignment Due date
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| Week 1 
| Aim 1: Learn about FCDs
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# Learn about FCDs
# Learn about issues related to FCDs and history of global databases
# Discuss potential solutions
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# Readings on peer production
# Create an account on Wikimedia
# Wiki Education Wikidata Professional Development Training Modules: Orientation, Introduction to Wikidata
| Week 2
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| Week 2
| Aim 2/3:
# Learn about peer production
# Learn about Wikimedia projects, Wikidata, and Wikibase
# Learn how to participate in wiki-based projects
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# Lecture on peer production
# Discussion on pros and cons of peer production for global FCD development
# Lecture on Wikimedia projects, Wikidata, and Wikibase - pull materials from Wiki Education on Wikidata?
* [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikidataHumanists.pdf Example of material we could adapt that I created for another event]
# Edit an Wikipedia article
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# Readings
# Databases and Linked Data
# Make Edits on Wikipedia or Wikidata
# Create an account on WikiFCD
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| Week 3
| Aim 4:
# Learn more about wiki editing
# Learn about structured data
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# Lecture on Wiki markup
# Edit Wikidata 
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# Readings
# Edit food/nutrition related pages on Wikidata
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| Week 4
| Aim 4:
# Learn about WikiFCD and Open Food Facts
# Learn about different ways to import data from elsewhere
# Learn about licensing
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# Lecture on structured data and how this could help our research
# Examples of good and bad Wikidata pages
# Edit meta data (FCD information)
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# Readings
# Search and add missing FCD meta data
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| Week 5
| Aim 4:
* Learn about online communities and collaboration
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* Learn how nutrient data are produced (field trip to USDA chemical analysis lab)
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* Lecture on successful online communities
* Discussion on how to build a successful global WikIFCD community
* OR
* Field trip.
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# Readings
# Learn a script to import example FCD csv (develop for this class)
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| Week 6
| Aim 4: 
# Explore ways to connect knowledge bases
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# Learn about other Wikimedia projects and Wikibase based projects
# Discuss potential research questions that can be answered by connecting these projects
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# Choose your research proposal topi
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| Week 7
| individual project consultation
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| Week 8
| Presentation on research proposals
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== 2nd Term: Aim 4/5 ==

* Students will select their own research questions and try to answer them analyzing data from WikiFCD.
* Skills: SPARQL
* Optional skills: statistical software

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=Evaluation=

=Tools=
* Software to extract tabular data from PDF files: [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96774878] and another [https://vinayak.io/2018/10/03/camelot-python-library-extract-tables-pdf/]
* WikidataIntegrator: [https://github.com/SuLab/WikidataIntegrator]
* OpenRefine: [https://openrefine.org/]