Difference between revisions of "Information collection tasks for Opasnet"

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Information collection task for Opasnet is a decentralised way of collecting useful information to Opasnet. Anyone can contribute to Opasnet for free (see Main Page#How can you participate?). But there are some pieces of information and some tasks that are especially important for the THL maintenance team of Opasnet. Therefore, THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare, located in Finland) is willing to pay for those people who do the tasks listed on this page. Anyone can read the task list, search for the information, organise it into a proper format and upload it to the website.

Scope

What is an efficient way to update Opasnet pages in such a way that

• the most important content gets high priority,
• the tasks are distributed outside the core Opasnet group if possible,
• the editors can get paid if they work on material that is of strategic interest to THL,
• the quality of pages is kept high, and
• copyright rules of external material are not violated?

Definition

THL can organise this work and pay for the workers. The only requirements for the payment are that 1) the person registers him/herself to Opasnet and the THL system for payments, 2) the task and the amount of compensation for the work is agreed beforehand with the contact person, 3) and the contact person controls that the agreed work has actually been done. THL will pay for the social security costs based on the Finnish law. The taxes must be paid by the worker, but THL may take care of the practicalities if a Finnish tax deduction card is given to THL. Workers not located in Finland should find out about possible tax treaties and rules themselves. Note that this work does NOT make the worker an employee of THL, and in addition to the monetary compensation, other benefits are NOT offered (no days off, unemployment security or similar).

Tasks to be done

1. Synopsis of dioxins and PCBs (Finnish version).
   • Material: Publications of the National Public Health Institute, 1999.
   • Task: Transform the material into encyclopedia articles, one page for each keyword, into the Finnish Opasnet.
   • Copyright: Permission from the authors D↷ to release material to public domain.
2. Take the EFSA data (total population, Consumers only) and upload it to the Opasnet Base. Make a variable based on the data.
3. Write an encyclopedia article about the Proast software for dose-response modelling (developed by Wout Slob in RIVM). A related article.
4. Create a method about the Proast software (there is an R code for the software).
5. Find the newest WHO guidance for dose-response modelling and make methods out of that. A draft guidance is known to us, but there may be newer material.
6. Make a full page of human impact assessment based on the links on the page. This is in Finnish. Make each ideakortti into a method.
7. Dissertation about dioxins
   • Material: Tuomisto, JT: TCDD: A challenge to mechanistic toxicology. Publications of the National Public Health Institute, 1999.
   • Task A: Suggest a list of variables, studies, and encyclopedia articles that would cover the material.
   • Task B: Transform the material into these pages in the correct format (see universal object).
   • Copyright: Permission from the author to release material with GFDL.
8. Get the dioxin concentration data that has been provided and collected based on the dioxin directive. The data is in the European Commission.
9. Upload the data from Task 4 into Opasnet Base.
10. Put OECD Environmental report about Finland to the Finnish Opasnet.
    • Material: [1] (should be chopped into relevant pieces first)
11. Put the respective English text to English Opasnet.
12. Make an encyclopedia article about the mid-term report of the Helsinki energy plan. So far, only news about the report have been found.
13. Make an encyclopedia article about Kofi Annan's Human Impact Report. Maybe some details can also be turned into variables.
14. Make an encyclopedia article about the Finnish energy strategy. Suomen hallituksen ilmasto- ja energiastrategia 2008 [2] [3] [4].
    • Create also an assessment about the strategy, taking the targets as the scenario for the assessment. When the assessment develops into a full-blown BBN, the strategy can be used to conditionalise the model to find optimal actions to reach the targets.

Tasks under work or under review

1. Copying the material from the EU IA Tools
   • Moderator: Heta
   • Copyright: may be freely used if the source is properly cited.
2. Beneris project website
   • Moderator: Henrik
   • Copyright: Permission from the project coordinator to release the material with GFDL.
3. Synopsis of dioxins and PCBs (English version).
   • Moderator: Henrik
   • Material: Publications of the National Public Health Institute, 1999.
   • Task: Transform the material into encyclopedia articles, one page for each keyword.
   • Copyright: Permission from the authors D↷ to release material to public domain.
4. Make encyclopedia articles about these food topics:
   • Make an encyclopedia article about EFSA.
   • Write an encyclopedia article about the Finnish food database Fineli.
   • Write an encyclopedia article about the Dutch food database Nevo.
   • Write an encyclopedia article about the EFSA food database
   • Moderator: LauraHuikko
   • Copyright: Text is not directly copy-pasted but synthesised; therefore, the author has the copyright and is allowed to submit the text to Opasnet.
5. Add the terminology list of a WHO report to the Glossary.
   • Moderator: Reetta Tiihonen
   • Copyright: Only short pieces of text will be quoted; attribution is given to the original source.

Practical guidance

Encyclopedia articles are similar to those in Wikipedia (these are freely usable as long as you have appropriate citations), in other words, general descriptions about a topic. In our case, we are allowed to dive deeper in details of environmental and health related issues than a typical Wikipedia article would go.

A reviewer will be nominated for each task. He will read through the pages when they are finished. Additionally, you may ask him or Jouni for help and further instructions as well.

Browse through the following pages:

• http://en.opasnet.org/w/Information_collection_tasks_for_Opasnet
• http://en.opasnet.org/w/Main_Page#How_can_you_participate.3F
• http://en.opasnet.org/w/Help:Editing
• http://en.opasnet.org/w/Moderator

Some hints:

• From My preferences -link (upper right hand corner of the page) http://en.opasnet.org/w/Special:Preferences you should disable rich text editor (found in 'Editing' section)
• It's wise to categorize pages to classes by typing [[Category:Kategorian nimi]] to the beginning of a page
  • There are already existing categories http://en.opasnet.org/w/Category:Main_category and you can come up with more of them if needed
• All sources of information must be cited properly using the following tag <ref>. Please look for more instructions http://en.opasnet.org/w/Help:Editing#Simple_reference_list
• The work will be payed by hourly wages (9.09€/hour), so keep track on your hours by filling in the following form: http://en.opasnet.org/en-opwiki/images/e/e0/Hely_tuntityo_thl.pdf
• The work will be payed as 'palkkiolasku' with the following form: http://en.opasnet.org/en-opwiki/images/9/9e/Hely_palkkiolasku_thl.pdf
  • Fill in for the orderer of the work: Jouni Tuomisto / YMAL / YMTO. Henkilönumero (HOT) must be left open.

Feel free to be bold, explore and learn by trying. You can not cause any irreversible damage because fixing the pages afterwards is very simple.

Result

Tasks completed and accepted

• None

Contact person

The contact person is Jouni Tuomisto. Note that different tasks may have different contact persons.