Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/National Autism Awareness Month 2018

Various organizations at the University of Virginia are presenting a National Autism Awareness Month 2018 Do-a-thon in April 2018. The public is invited! The goal of the event is to support individuals and organizations with information and data related to autism to collaborate with data scientists and technical developers to create useful and interesting tools.

This event is a do-a-thon, which means that in addition to being a hackathon for technical projects, the event is also a place for anyone to do anything that they would like to do in collaboration with people with autism, researchers, educators, health care providers, and data scientists.

There will be Wikimedia facilitators at the event offering support to anyone who wants to edit Wikipedia articles or Wikidata items. The event as a whole is not wiki-focused, but this project page will coordinate and report any wiki-related activities at the event.

About the event

 * Anyone may post notes in this text editor! These notes are public for anyone to read. Although anyone can edit this Wikipedia event page, using this text editor might be easier. Just type and go here!

English Wikipedia articles related to autism
See especially the main article at autism.

Clinical trials data
ClinicalTrials.gov is a United States National Library of Medicine registry of clinical trials. Anyone might use this registry's data about clinical trials related to autism.
 * March 2018 collection of registry data for all trials related to autism

As an example project, anyone could move some of this information into Wikidata. Here is some more information:
 * 1) ClinicalTrials.gov is the source of all information. However, the data is better structured in the ACCT project
 * 2) ACCT (Aggregate Content of ClinicalTrials.gov) has structured the data in ClinicalTrials.gov. The data above for trials related to autism comes from AACT
 * 3) ClinWiki.org is a presentation of the structured data from AACT
 * a Wikidata model for structuring data on clinical trials could be the starting point for adapting data from ACCT into Wikimedia projects

Citations and scholarly profiles
Develop Wikidata items on publications and researchers in the field.
 * d:Wikidata:Scholia
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData

Models for tracking credentials
One team at the event described problems which they felt would not exist if people in certain professions, like teaching, healthcare, and human resources, had a small amount of training, and if they could demonstrate that training with a credential. There are numerous credentials for signalling completion of training related to working with people with autism.

The nature of the event and the team's interests did not prioritize developing a Wikimedia-based response to this challenge, but people did ask questions and want information which Wikimedia projects ought to provide. From a Wikimedia perspective it might be useful to identify which organizations offer credentials, which organizations accredit the organizations offering credentials, what credentials exist, and characteristics of the credentials. Perhaps no such information exists either on English Wikipedia or Wikidata.

Wikidata projects which have a scope closest to modeling credentials might be
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject Education
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject Award

Here are some professional certifications on Wikidata:

Here are some properties for credentials:

Behavior Analyst Certification Board is an example of an organization which provides and tracks credentials.

To develop this idea further then in Wikidata one could model how to present credentials. After getting a model, then one could take in data sets about which organizations offer which credentials. From that point a range of new research and product development directions becomes possible.

Links

 * Data Science Institute at University of Virginia