2024-08-08 –, Dilijan (3) (interpretation)
Language: English
Wikimedia projects focus primarily on text and images and, sometimes, sound. Yet sight and hearing are only two of the five senses, so how can Wikimedia projects represent our senses of smell, taste and touch better? To begin a conversation this demonstration will focus on the sense of smell and how Wikidata can be used to build and share information related to this sense, particularly related to health. We invite participants to bring their own exciting ideas on how smell-related data could benefit their projects and advocate for smell-related information as a significant potential area for expansion.
This interactive session will demonstrate how smell-related data is used on Wikidata, share a case study related to health, and provide space for future ideas regarding smell-related data to be shared. It will be interactive, with smells provided to spark conversation. It will be split into three sections. The first will demonstrate the items and properties currently in use on Wikidata to represent smell-related information. We’ll be encouraging participants to translate the items and properties as we go.
In the second section, our core case study participants will understand how smell-related data can be used to better understand the diagnosis and treatment of smell loss and associated coping strategies. The session will help us to deal with smell loss, symptoms, control and cure. It will help us to identify the consequences of smell loss (negative consequences) associated with risks, diminished food enjoyment and odour dictation. It can lead us to identifying patients with olfactory disorders and how olfactory disorders can link together.
Our final segment creates space for participants to share how they might apply smell-related data to their activities. As well as health, this has an impact for those who work in biology (fungi identification!) and in GLAMs (scented sculptures!). We imagine there are many more applications to consider, both now and for the future.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
Understand how smell is currently represented in Wikidata
Have greater awareness of how smell-related content influences medicine and health
Imagine future possibilities for smell-related information in Wikidata
Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/z075DihKGPQ?si=0ANT5YTDBM0j-jJS&t=3521
Sensory data is a relatively new field in information studies. This session will be an opportunity to discuss ways in which senses beyond sight and sound can be part of the data that we collectively aggregate as volunteers in the Wikimedia movement. Here we use smell as a case study, but other senses such as taste and touch are of course significant too. Adding smell to Wikidata has huge potential for cross-cultural comparison and to illuminate new ways to understand our world.
What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?*:Everyone can participate in this session
How do you plan to deliver this session?*:Hybrid with some participants in Katowice and others dialing in remotely
What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.:Collaboration, Capacity building, Storytelling
Lucy Moore is an archaeologist, curator and Wikimedian. In 2024 she completed a quest to write an article on English Wikipedia for a woman from every country in the world
Onwuka Glory, of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria and Igbo Wikimedia User Group joined Wikimedia Foundation as a volunteer editor in the year 2021. I have taken delight in editing Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikicommons and Wikitionary. I presented a paper in the last year (2023) Wikimania conference. Presently, am working on series of projects.
I am Onwuka Glory, from Wikimedia User Group, Nigeria and Igbo Wikimedian's User Group. I became a Wikimedian Volunteer editor from the year 2021. I am from Imo state network. I take delight in editing Wikipedia, Wikicommons, Wikidata, and Wikitionary. I have participated in some project contest . I have conducted some Wiki projects and under gone some trainings. I studied History and International studies and childhood education; am a researcher and children advocate.