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NIH WikiWorld

NIH WikiWorld. Olga Brazhnik, Ph. D. Office of the Chief IT Architect National Institutes of Health. Outline. What is Wiki? NIH Wiki Landscape Lessons from Wiki projects. What is Wiki?. Wiki is short for “wiki wiki”, meaning “quick” or “fast” in Hawaiian.

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NIH WikiWorld

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  1. NIH WikiWorld Olga Brazhnik, Ph. D. Office of the Chief IT Architect National Institutes of Health

  2. Outline • What is Wiki? • NIH Wiki Landscape • Lessons from Wiki projects

  3. What is Wiki? • Wiki is short for “wiki wiki”, meaning “quick” or “fast” in Hawaiian. • Wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or modify all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. The use of these capabilities by various groups of users can be controlled through configuration.

  4. Wiki basics • The concept of Wiki (capitalized) is materialized in wiki engines and implemented in wiki instances • Currently there are > 250 wiki engines • Wikipedia uses free open-source MediaWiki • Wiki Engines: • http://www.wikimatrix.org/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software

  5. NIH Wiki Landscape • NIH Wiki Working Group • commissioned by the Office of Chief IT Architect • reviewed existing wiki sites; federal and agency specific governance guidelines, and wiki best practices • Identified & analyzed potential risks • Developed high level recommendations for wiki use and implementation at NIH: • proceed with internal wikis • externally accessible wikis require further analysis

  6. NIH Wiki Landscape: Wikis at NIH • Small project behind the NIH firewall • NTLM, WikiQuest, Rosetta, etc • Visible to the public: • http://gforge.nci.nih.gov/plugins/wiki/index.php?id=14&type=g • Hosted externally - Theoretical and Computational biophysics Group http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/wiki/ - CRA-NIH Computing Research Challenges in Biomedicine Workshop http://www.sci.utah.edu/ncrr/wiki - The National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki

  7. Wikis at other Federal Agencies • Internal: CIA, NASA, DoD, NIST, USGS, etc. • Open to the public: NIST: http://hcxw2k1.nist.gov/wikihttp://hcxw2k1.nist.gov/wiki Berkley lab: http://rana.lbl.gov/drosophila/wiki Argonne NL: http://www-new.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/wiki/ NASA: http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/wiki • External: GSA: http://colab.cim3.net/wiki/ USGS: http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki

  8. Lessons • Community • Defined • Ready • Accountable • Open and trusting • Reliability of information • Top-down and bottom-up approaches • Place for consensus

  9. Lesson 4: Consensus

  10. Diseases & Disorders NCI NIDCD Biomed NHGRI NIBIB NLM NIGMS NIEHS NEI Habits NIAAA NIDA NIAMS NHLBI NIDDK Biomed NHGRI NIBIB NIDCR NICHD Diseases & Disorders NCI NIAID NIDCD http://janussys.ru/Chapters/AnatomyAndMedicine.jpg

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