Wikiversity:Research collaboration

Wikiversity provides server space for a virtual commons where researchers from all over the world can describe their research and promote education-oriented collaborations. Many researchers, libraries and museums now have online versions of their research labs and online descriptions of research projects. Some of these websites invite participation by students.

One research area supported by Wikiversity is Secondary research. Groups of collaborating editors can use the wiki interface to produce a review article, which is a secondary source but refers to primary sources. The objection to this is that in general people want to own review articles in order to advance their careers and so would not collaborate on anything which had shared ownership and no qudos. However there is the possibility that researchers only interested in primary research might contribute to a collaborative review and also retired researchers might contribute to such an article? A system for collaborative article authoring and peer reviewed publishing in a wiki environment is described at the Wiki Journal.

See also

• Astronomy Project - Project participants access public astronomy databases and explore outer space.

External links

• development of student-centered internet-based astronomy data research opportunities
• developing large data set physics research projects for students and teachers
• NASA outreach
  • JPL outreach
• NOAA outreach
• climate change education site with public-access data
• Utah Astrophysics Outreach
• Environmental Education and Outreach
• Haystack Observatory Outreach
• Berkeley Lab Educational Outreach
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• CSLI Linguistic Grammars Online (LinGO) Lab at Stanford University
• The NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
• American University’s Computing History Museum
• The Human-Computer Interaction Lab
• The STAR Experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Center for Engineering Education Outreach at Tufts University
• Atmospheric Research Educational Outreach
• Online Biotechniques Laboratory
• George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
• The Mastodon Matrix Project: An Experiment with Large-Scale Public Collaboration in Paleontological Research
• Online human-machine competition - computer science

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"With student numbers falling, we need more researchers to do public-outreach work" (source)