EduWiki Conference 2025/Program/Wikidata for Education
Wikidata for Education for a Country- Dnshitobu
- Owula kpakpo
Time: 11:00
Room: Guadalupe
Abstract:
In 2020, the absence or insufficiency of curriculum documentation in digitally usable formats prevented education systems from being able to quickly and efficiently respond to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on face-to-face learning.
Wikimedia, within the scope of the concept note developed by UNESCO under the Global Education Coalition, is seeking to launch a proof of concept and pilot project as part of broader efforts to establish links between the national curricula and the content on Wikimedia projects.
Wikidata for Education (WD4E) is an initiative that aims to improve the world’s ability to access relevant data about school curricula and to simplify and automate finding and aligning open educational resources to national curricula. In this project, the GSET and OFWA team built a data model that represents curricula and helps Wikimedians (educators, developers, etc) upload the curricula data on Wikidata following a standard structure. The main goal of this work is to digitize curricula by providing a data model aligned with a national curriculum framework and the UNESCO’s International Standard Classification of Education.
Objectives: By the end of the presentation, the participant will:
- Explore the model using curriculum data in Wikidata.
- Model an item for a curriculum
- Query for curriculum data from Wikidata
