Lerato (🤣🤣🤣) prompted me. I prompted Chat GPT. My WIR (Wikipedian in Residence) Community Coordinator with the African Wikipedian Alliance gave me the final push. I’m starting to record, collect and publish the statistics about the status of “Vernacular Wikipedia”. My dashboard about Vernacular Wikipedia has been placed on Github. Its offers brief information about …
Category archives: Development
Spatial lens (part 3)
The third post is about maps personal cartography and my (fr) “géomatique” attempts with geodata. I’ll explore a data centred “map”, generated “automatically” with spatial data infrastructure. Instead of a “normal” hand drawn map (see the map of the 19th arrondissement of Paris below), or a map with a particular boundary with labels (see the …
Spatial Lens
Maps are the loveliest way for us to see complicated geodata. “Geomatics is the study of methods and technologies used to collect, distribute, analyse and present geographical, and spatial data, both natural and human-made”. https://www.westerncape.gov.za/infrastructure/become-geomatics-professional There are geomaticians with pen and paper (look out for Peter Slingsby ‘s routes and paths in the Drakensberg and …
Families on Wikidata
Kate (Q1252986310)and Ravi (Q135189340) are good friends with Dr Susan (0000-0001-9554-4948), who is our next-door neighbour here in Richmond (Q61359147). Our lives occasionally intersect at birthday parties or tea. Their two gals also went to Parktown High School for Girls (Q7138735), like my two. None of these identifiers are as memorable as that of Q1001 …
Family Charts & SPARQL Queries
I’ve use the word “Wikidata” repeatedly in blog posts over the last few months. SPARQL is the way in which you can query Wikidata. I’ve found the easiest way to learn how to “Sparkle” is by experimenting. I have deleted the rest of this blog post. Weird technical glitches.
Research Data Management
Spent the 13 -15th of November at Pretoria University at the Research Data Management workshop arranged by SADiLaR and run by the knowledgebase Benito Trollip and co-ordinated by the lovely Jessica Mabaso Benito and I first met in person at DHASA 2023 in Gqeberha from 27 Nov – 1 Dec 2023 (almost a year ago …
My sell by date
The shelf life of an education resource (and the developer team) can be quite limited. As technology advances and digital fashions change every season, the primary decision facing the owner of an educational website often is “When must I bin my site“. I think an open course should rather be asking, “Who is the best …
DH-OER Digital Story Telling Workshop
On the 31 October 2023, I ran a workshop about Digital Storytelling. My aim was to get participants consider the way in which they wanted to introduce their work at a showcase event. Then give them the opportunity to practice a short and attention grabbing lighting talk, using well known structure called a Pecha Kucha …
Ceilings and floors of a course home page
Picture the instructional designer. Putting together a course home page on the institutional LMS. How do you want to “dress” this page? To impress? Do we reflect the department or faculty “brand”. Do we watch the intended user, noticing how they interact with the page, and then make changes. Do we make the interface intuitive …
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OE4BW – 2021
A few years ago, while scrolling through Twitter, I saw a link to an application to be mentored in the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) programme. I’d created many online and digital resources, but my efforts were often solitary and conversations around the work were limited to individual “client” updates. Work felt insular …