2024:Program/Keynote: Opening the Academia

Session title: Keynote: Opening the Academia

Session type: Lecture

Track: Keynote session

Language: en

Panel with: - Dariusz Jemielniak, professor of management at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and vice-president of Polish Academy of Sciences; - Dr Julia Maria Koszewska, Senior Library Assistant at Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), vice-president of the Wikimedia Polska board of trustees; - Dr Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems at Poznań University of Economics and Business.

What does opening the academia mean in practice? Where do Wiki projects fit in the Open Science landscape?

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Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYc5gnZfnpU&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ9Wvo43XRDbCC2dfhdS7BG&t=2355

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Speakers

• Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak, professor of management at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and vice-president of Polish Academy of Sciences;

• Julia Maria Koszewska

Julia Maria Koszewska, PhD, DocSocSci (Sociology), holds degrees in Library and Information Science (BLIS), Knowledge and Information Management (MA), and Applied Social Sciences (PhD), with additional postgraduate qualifications in International Law. She has made her first edit in Wikipedia back in 2007, and since then contributes mostly to Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata. And also to the broader community. She has served on the Polish Arbitration Committee and is currently in her second term as vice-chair of Wikimedia Polska. Julia as been instrumental in initiating GLAM-Wiki, WikiWomen, and EthnoWiki projects in Poland, enriching the cultural and educational landscape. Additionally, she chairs the Supervisory Committee at the Wolne Lektury Foundation and works as a Senior Library Assistant at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Julia also pursues her passion for research as an independent scholar.

• Włodzimierz Lewoniewski

Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems at Poznań University of Economics and Business. Research areas: information quality in open knowledge bases (such as Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata), fake news detection, natural language processing, machine learning. Author of over 50 publications in English, Polish and Russian. More information: https://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en/wlodzimierz-lewoniewski/

• Kasia Makowska

Open Science Manager at Wikimedia Polska. I’m responsible for building relationships with the research and expert community, and coordinating Open Science and Open Education projects. My background is in biotechnology & biomedical sciences, I have experience in science communication and community management.