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We're developing a new way to browse and search the documents described in Metabase. The beta version of MEOW is live! (read about it) |
MEOW
MEOW (Metabase Educational Open Works) is a web-based browsing and filtering interface for the documents cataloged in Metabase. It was developed by Wikimedia Sverige as part of the Content Partnerships Hub initiative.
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Purpose
The app collects resource metadata from Metabase and presents it as a searchable, filterable catalogue of Wikimedia-related educational materials, such as guides, tutorials, videos, reports, slide decks, manuals, courses, case studies, and other open learning resources.
The purpose is to make it easier for users to discover the contents of Metabase without having to run SPARQL queries.
Further development
- Improve performance
- Right now, MEOW is quite slow due to loading the whole JSON file when the webapp is opened. A possible alternative is to move to a lightweight API that serves the desired content instead.
Resource types
The catalog includes resources that are some sort of document (Q21) (a curated list of types). Events, such as conferences and their sessions, edit-a-thons, seminars etc. are not included.
Features
Users can narrow down the catalog using any combination of the following:
- Free-text search - matches against titles, descriptions, and other text fields
- Resource type - filter by a specific type such as "online courses" or "videos"
- Language -filter by the language a resource is available in
- Publisher and author - multi-select facet filters
- Subject tags - clickable tags shown on each resource card; clicking a tag in the card view activates that subject filter
- "Improve data" filters - maintenance filters for contributors who want to find resources with incomplete or missing metadata
The list of resources shown in a given filter state can be exported as a CSV file.
History
- 2026-05-13
- MEOW is launched