Since January, I have been posting a monthly summary of Open-Access-related activities pertaining to Wikimedia projects as part of the GLAM Newsletter on the Wikimedia Outreach wiki.
I am posting these reports also here on the blog in order to reach out to a wider audience. This breaks some of the formatting, so please go to the respective wiki page to see things in a proper setting.
Links to all Open Access reports posted so far: January, February, March, April, May,June, July, August, September, October, November.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0. Licenses of images and media files used in the reports may differ but are always compatible with reuse in a CC BY-SA 3.0 environment.
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The Open Access Media Importer at full speed; Publishers deliver inconsistent XML to PubMed Central; Importing from other sources
Open Access Media Importer
Metadata at PubMed Central
The most prominent issue with the XML is that of incorrect or self-contradicting licensing statements. While this had been noticed already in spring (e.g. “licensed under a Creative Commons Attr0ibution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0)” – yes, with a typo on top of it, in an article from Orthopedic Reviews, published by PagePress), actually deploying the bot to larger parts of the database made it clear that the phenomenon is rather common and not restricted to small and lesser known publishers. The Open Access Media Importer analyzes the XML of articles stored in PubMed Central’s Open Access subset. That XML is being delivered there by the individual journals or publishers, which provides the basis for a plethora of individual styles that may or may not be close to the actual specifications of the National Library of Medicine‘s Document Type Definition (now named JATS).Gallery
The following files represent a selection of what has been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know. For metadata about the files, please click on the Menu button.Videos
Can you guess the research question addressed in the corresponding scholarly article?Sound files
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Beyond PubMed Central
While PubMed Central is the only database currently spidered by the Open Access Media Importer, it is designed in a modular fashion, such that other sources could easily be plugged in. To lay the ground for such future work, a number of (manual) test uploads from such potential sources have been made this month.-
The metamorphosis of the protochordateBranchiostoma japonicum– the first file on Wikimedia Commons originating from a data paper (published inDataset Papers in Biology).
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MENUA “singing” iceberg – the first file from a data repository (PANGAEA).
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Bugula flabellata – another file from a data repository (Dryad).
WikiProject Open Access
The following news from WikiProject Open Access have been posted this month:- November 2: A video of a juvenile tentacled snake attacking a fish (a fathead minnow) is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commonsunder Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2010 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Tentacled snake article, fathead minnow article.
- November 4: An X-ray video of an American alligator while breathing is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2009 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, American alligator article, X-ray article.
- November 6: A video of a raspy cricket fabricating silk is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in February and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page,video, Raspy cricket article, Silk article.
- November 8: A video of chimpanzees sharing a papaya fruit is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2007 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page,video, Chimpanzee article, Papaya article.
- November 10: An audio recording of the giggling call of a spotted hyena is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in BMC Ecology in 2010 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats:Main Page, sound file, Giggling article, Spotted hyena article.
- November 11: A video of Emperor Penguins producing traveling waves is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2011 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Emperor penguin article, Traveling wave article.
- November 11: Open Access report in the October 2012 issue of This month in GLAM. Traffic stats.
- November 13: A video of a pelagic thresher shark and a giant manta ray interacting in the presence of cleaner fish is featured on the Main Pageof Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2011 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Pelagic thresher shark article, Giant manta ray article, Cleaner fish article.
- November 15: A video of a moth caterpillar defending itself and parasitoid wasp pupae against a stink bug is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2008 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Thyrinteina article, Glyptapanteles article, Pentatomoidea article.
- November 16: A video of a Meioglossus psammophilus acorn worm is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE last week and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats:Main Page, video, Acorn worm article.
- November 16: The Open Access Media Importer Bot passed the mark of 5000 imported files.
- November 17: An audio recording of an iceberg is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originallypublished in 2005 in PANGAEA as part of the supplement to a paper published in Science. Traffic stats: Main Page, sound file, iceberg article.
- November 19: An audio recording of calling song of a 17-year periodic cicada Magicicada septendecula is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in 2007 in PLOS ONE and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, sound file, Magicicada septendecula article.
- November 20: A video – recorded with an acoustic camera – of an African bush elephant rumbling with its nose is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE last week and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, African bush elephant article.
- November 22: A video of a Manduca sexta larva on Nicotiana attenuata, reacting to experimental stimulation, is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in eLife last month and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Manduca sexta article, Nicotiana attenuata article.
- November 26: An audio recording of a territorial call of a male toad Atelopus franciscus is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commonsunder Media of the Day. It was originally published in 2011 in PLOS ONE and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, sound file, Atelopus franciscus article.
- November 27: A video of astronaut Charles Duke trying to recover a hammer he had dropped on the surface of the moon is featured on theMain Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally recorded during the Apollo 16 mission, then republished in PLOS ONE in 2009 and recently uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Charles Duke article, Apollo 16 article.
- November 28: A video of the solitary bee Colletes cunicularius pseudocopulating on the flower labellum of the orchid Ophrys lupercalis isfeatured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2010 and recently uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Colletes article, Pseudocopulation article, Ophrys article.
- November 30: The Open Access Media Importer is featured in the Wikimedia Highlights of October 2012.
Open Access File of the Day
The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day this month:-
November 30: AMagicicada cassini female laying its eggs.
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November 29: Ahydrophilic termite(Schedorhinotermes sp.) attached to the surface of a wetted citrus leaf
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November 28: A range of putative disease-causing mechanisms for the case of the disease progeria
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November 27: A large male Bolitotherus cornutusundergoing a grip strengthtrial.
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November 26: A femaleEuglossa hyacinthinaworking on the construction of her nest envelope.
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November 25: Reconstruction of aNimbadon lavarackorummother with a juvenile.
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November 24: SEM image of the tardigradeMilnesium tardigradum in its active state.
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November 23: The brown lacewing Micromus variegatus.
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MENUNovember 22: Carpodacus mexicanus (finch) vocalizations
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November 21: The fishAlticus arnoldorumperforming a jump (slow motion).
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November 20:Larsenianthus arunachalensis, a member of the ginger family.
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November 19: An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross.
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November 18: A Xenopus laevis female with egg batch and Xenopus tropicalis male.
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MENUNovember 17: Acoustic display of the hummingbirdArchilochus alexandri.
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November 16: Thyrinteinacaterpillar parasitized byGlyptapanteles pupae defends against Supputius cincticeps
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November 15:Anodonthyla theoi, dorsolateral and ventral views
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November 14: A femaleIllacme plenipes with 662 legs.
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November 13: Aerosteon riocoloradensis
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November 12: maxilla fromFruitadens
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November 11: The Garden centipede Scutigerella immaculata.
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November 10: A femaletarantula Acanthoscurria gomesiana.
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November 9: drawing of female of Glomeris marginata
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November 8: Centropyge bicolor feeding onPalaemonetes
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November 7: Archerfishshooting at prey
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November 6: The butterflyErebia calcaria.
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November 5: gastrulationin cybrid embryos
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November 4: The sea slugSpurilla major.
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November 1: MRI scans of a microcephalic patient (right) and a healthy control (left).
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