Conference paper Open Access

Discovery and efficient reuse of technology pictures using Wikimedia infrastructures. A proposal

Heller, Lambert; Blümel, Ina; Cartellieri, Simone; Wartena, Christian

Multimedia objects, especially images and figures, are essential for the visualization and interpretation of research findings. The distribution and reuse of these scientific objects is significantly improved under open access conditions, for instance in Wikipedia articles, in research literature, as well as in education and knowledge dissemination, where licensing of images often represents a serious barrier.

Whereas scientific publications are retrievable through library portals or other online search services due to standardized indices there is no targeted retrieval and access to the accompanying images and figures yet. Consequently there is a great demand to develop standardized indexing methods for these multimedia open access objects in order to improve the accessibility to this material.

With our proposal, we hope to serve a broad audience which looks up a scientific or technical term in a web search portal first. Until now, this audience has little chance to find an openly accessible and reusable image narrowly matching their search term on first try - frustratingly so, even if there is in fact such an image included in some open access article.

Our paper was accepted and presented at the wiki workshop of ICWSM 2016, though due to technical reason it was not included in the conference report.
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  • doi:10.5281/zenodo.12745

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