List of open tasks

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List of open tasks is a decentralised way of collecting useful information to Opasnet and improving the formatting or quality of the existing content. 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).

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

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:


Instructions for putting material into right places

You find interesting material/web pages but have no time to write articles
Find a page in Opasnet related to the topic. Copy-paste links to the material on the "See also" section of that page. Write a few words of description.
Same as above but you do not find a related page
Copy-paste the links to this page on "Miscellaneous" section.

Ohje tämmöisiin tilanteisiin: Kirjoitetaan Opasnetiin (tässä tapauksessa suomenkieliselle sivulle Kuntapeli) aiheen kuvaus lyhyesti vaikka vain kopioimalla suoraan spostista. Yksityiskohtaisemmat jutustelut voi kopioida keskustelusivulle. Aiheeseen liittyvät tiedostot ladataan Heandeen (tai jos käytettävissä on M-files, mieluummin sen Opasnet public-osioon siten, että tiedostot näkyvät Heandessa). Tämä tiedostojen omituinen sijoittelu johtuu tekijänoikeuksista. Heandeen luodaan myös sivu Kuntapeli, joka sisältää ainoastaan linkit kyseisiin tiedostoihin ja varsinaiselle sivulle (suomenkieliseen) Opasnetiin.

Varsinaiselle sivulle laitetaan linkki vastaavasti Heanden sivulle. Tavanomaisten linkkien Kuntapeli lisäksi laitetaan linkki muotoa eli ilman kaksoispistettä. Tämän jälkimmäisen hienous on siinä että se tekee linkin sivupalkkiin otsikolla "Heande" samaan tapaan kuin Wikipediat linkkaavat erikielisten Wikipedioitten sivuja toisiinsa.


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:Name of category]] to the beginning of a page.
  • 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 [1].
  • The work will be payed as 'palkkiolasku' with the following form [2].
    • 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.

Message from Anelma:

Hei

Olen lomalla 12.7 .- 6.8.2010.

Sijaisenani toimii 12.7. - 26.7.10 Riitta Saarelainen ja loppuloman ajan Kirsi-Marja Leskinen Yhteystiedot löytyvät oheisesta linkistä http://terho.thl.fi/wiki01/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=24709008

Lomani aikana pyydän tuntilaskuttajia ja palkkionsaajia toimittamaan tuntilistat/palkkiolaskut Heli Leinoselle tai Tiina Räisäselle. He huolehtivat laskut eteenpäin.

Terv. Anelma

Result

Hyöty-riskiarviointi ydinvoimasta Suomessa

  1. Rajaukset, yksiköt ja tulokset kohdalleen.
  2. Miettikää arvomuuttuja: mitä arvoja pitäisi sisällyttää arviointiin? Tätä varten uusi sivu.
  3. Miettikää riskin kokemista: mitä asioita siihen liittyy, mitä pitäisi ihmisiltä kysyä
  4. Plussat ja miinukset ydinvoimasta. Yhteenvetolista pääsivulle.

Plantlibra deliverables and tasks

Take the Plantlibra description of work and put all deliverables as pages to Heande. Note! Some delivarbles already exist in Opasnet. Check the Category:Plantlibra. [3]

Expoplatform

Copy-paste the text from Expoplatform to Opasnet. Make plans how to do this seamlessly with Intarese toolbox.

Responsible person: Arja

Heimtsa incidence database

Worker: Teemu R Responsible person: Jouni

Arsenic to zoonoses to Opasnet

Make one nugget page for each of the chapters in Arsenic to zoonoses. Develop a template for the chapters of the book.

Dioxin synopsis

  • Categorise all synopsis pages to Dioxin synopsis.
  • Make the Dioxin synopsis page as a table of contents for the synopsis.
  • Make the Finnish pages in the same way, using the translated text in Dioxin synopsis.
  • Link each page of English and Finnish synopsis with [[heande:] and [[op_en:]] links.
  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.

Responsible person: Jouni.

Article scanning

  • Creating a pdf's from the printed articles and saving of pdf's to specific folder in n-file.

Responsible person: Marko.

Writing of Intarese Toolbox pages (WP1.4)

TODO: {{#todo:Upload this data to the Intarese Toolbox. DL: 18.7.2010|Jouni Tuomisto|}}


Specification of deliverables (according to deliverables list Feb 2010) Planned deadline deliverable Delivered as general product (yes/ no/ partly) Location in toolbox2 Delivered into the toolbox (yes/ no/ partly) Type of page1 Person responsible for remaining tasks Comments
Indicator selection 54 yes What indicators should be used.../ building good indicators no G PBL Eva
Calculating DALYs and QALYs 54 yes Execution/ impact analysis/ measures of impact partly G RIVM Anne
Calculating DALYs and QALYs 54 no Execution/ impact analysis/ measures of impact partly M RIVM Anne?
Severity weights 54 no Execution/ impact analysis/ measures of impact/Calculating DALYs and QALYs D RIVM Anne SAME AS D128. SOME MATERIAL from the link
Monetisation methods 54 yes? Execution/ impact analysis/ measures of impact partly? G + M + D Alistair Hunt (HEIMTSA) with help from Tifanny from RIVM
Risk Perception 54 yes? What indicators should be used... no G + M? RIVM Ric?
Open assessment 54 ready Issue framing/ key points/ concept of IEHIA/ other assessment methodologies no G THL Jouni
Collaborative workspace - ready Execution/ Key considerations/ collaborating on an assessment no D THL Jouni
Result database 54 no Design/ feasibility testing/ information needs no D THL Jouni
Multiple bias [4] 54 no Design/ feasibility testing/ information needs/ exposure-response functions no G THL Marjo
Value of information 54 yes Execution/ uncertainty analysis yes G THL Jouni
Value of information model 54 yes Execution/ uncertainty analysis/ value of information no M THL Jouni
Quality/Performance [5] 54 yes Execution/ uncertainty analysis no G THL Mikko
Protocol on stakeholder involvement. [6] 50 yes Issue framing/ Who are the stakeholders/ Engaging stakeholders/ methods for stakeholder engagement no G THL Mikko Part of D47 (detailed description). Delivered at mo 50.
Participating in assessments [7] 50 yes Issue framing/ Who are the stakeholders/ Engaging stakeholders/ methods for stakeholder engagement no G THL Mikko Part of D47 (an overview).

1 Types of toolbox pages: (Guidebook/ Resource - Model or tool/ Resource - Worked Example/ Resource - Data)
2 Based on the toolbox structure on 6 May 2010 [8]

Uploading articles to Heande

There are a lot of articles that should be uploaded to M-files in Heande. These are currently located in P:\huippuyksikko\kirjallisuus.

  • The names of the files should be changed to the standard format: Lastnameoffirstauthor_Year_Journal_Description.pdf
    ⇤1 : There are 2800 files. This is not time efficient to do. --Jouni 12:00, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
  • New pages should be created in Heande according to the topics of the articles.
    • The default names for the pages are the folder names on P drive.
    • All pages should contain the {{mfiles}} template.
  • In addition, if there are similar pages in Opasnet, links to the new Heande pages should be added both in the See also section and also using [[heande:Page name|]] link (which creates a link to Heande to the sidebar on left.

Data upload to Opasnet Base

Beneris data

Upload relevant Beneris data to Opasnet Base.

Responsible person: Olli

General cleaning of pages

Clean up pages in Opasnet.

Responsible person: Mikko Pohjola


Templates of page types

The following template pages should be updated based on the following object structure descriptions. The Template:Assessment structure has been done as example.

Rewriting existing topics in Opasnet

Some pages are outdated or overlapping with other pages. Therefore, there are needs to restructure and rewrite existing pages.

Page type update

All pages should have a page type. Also, some pages have been classified into a poor page type, because the practices have changed over time. Also the structure should be improved towards Scope, Definition, Result if applicable. Therefore, there are tasks to:

  • develop a page that lists all pages without a page type,
  • go through all pages without a page type and classify them,
  • reclassifying pages into better types when they are being edited for other reasons.
  • The current pages will be cleaned up. Two major things: check the page type (variable, assessment...), and add any relevant categories.
  • The Variable namespace should be checked, as a lot of it seems to have moved to the Main namespace.

Improving categorisation

The existing categories are not well developed and systematic. Therefore, there are tasks to:

  • improve the categorisation system, preferably based on some existing classification,
  • go through the pages and update categories.
  • Category:Assessment method articles categorized to Category:Method instead.

Checking potentially important web links

Some web links seem interesting and important for Opasnet, but more time is needed to look at those. Only then it is possible to decide, whether the information should be linked to from some Opasnet pages, or whether the information deserves a page of its own. These web links include:

Copying dissertation theses of THL/YMTO to Opasnet

  • All theses produced in THL/YMTO should be chopped into pieces and encyclopedia articles should be made out of them in Opasnet.
  1. Dissertation about dioxins
    • Material: Tuomisto, JT: TCDD: A challenge to mechanistic toxicology. Publications of the National Public Health Institute, 1999.
    • Copyright: Permission from the author to release material with GFDL.

Miscellaneous

  1. Add the terminology list of a WHO report to the Glossary. Go through Reetta's edits and add the WHO vocabulary link where relevant.
    • Moderator: Reetta Tiihonen
    • Copyright: Only short pieces of text will be quoted; attribution is given to the original source.
  2. Copying the material from the EU IA Tools
    • Moderator: Heta
    • Copyright: may be freely used if the source is properly cited.
  3. Take the EFSA data (total population, Consumers only) and upload it to the Opasnet Base. Make a variable based on the data.
  4. Write an encyclopedia article about the Proast software for dose-response modelling (developed by Wout Slob in RIVM). A related article.
  5. Create a method about the Proast software (there is an R code for the software).
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Put OECD Environmental report about Finland to the Finnish Opasnet.
    • Material: [9] (should be chopped into relevant pieces first)
  9. Put the respective English text to English Opasnet.
  10. Make an encyclopedia article about the mid-term report of the Helsinki energy plan. So far, only news about the report have been found.
  11. Make an encyclopedia article about Kofi Annan's Human Impact Report. Maybe some details can also be turned into variables.
  12. Make an encyclopedia article about the Finnish energy strategy. Suomen hallituksen ilmasto- ja energiastrategia 2008 [10] [11] [12].
    • 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.
  13. Make encyclopedia articles about these food topics:
  14. Artikkeli bisneksestä, jossa valtio maksaa siitä, että joku auttaa toista säästämään energiaa. Ennen säästötoimia kirjataan energiankulutus, ja säästöä seurataan. Konsultti saa palkkionsa toteutuneen säästön mukaan. Jos tulee lisäkulua, konsultti joutuu maksumieheksi. Onko tästä jo artikkeli jossain? Tyjakissa?
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