Information collection tasks for Opasnet

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.
   • 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.
2. Make an encyclopedia article about EFSA.
3. 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.
4. Get the dioxin concentration data that has been provided and collected based on the dioxin directive. The data is in the European Commission.
5. Upload the data from Task 4 into Opasnet Base.
6. Put OECD Environmental report about Finland to the Finnish Opasnet.
   • Material: [1] (should be chopped into relevant pieces first)
7. Put the respective English text to English Opasnet.

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.

Result

Tasks completed and accepted

• None

Contact person

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