Dr Martin Poulter was employed by the Bodleian Libraries half-time, from October 2016 to October 2019, funded by the university's IT Innovation Challenges and by the university's Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) Division, as the Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford. The project is titled "Embedding Innovative use of Wikimedia across the University" and involved working with Wikimedia UK and with staff in the university to foster a step-change in how the university supports Wikimedia-related activity. The phase of work that continued to October 2019 was focused on how Wikidata can be used as a platform for publishing Linked Open Data about the collections and research resources in the university.
This placement follows on from the Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries funded by Wikimedia UK, which ran from April 2015 to March 2016.
A global ranking issued in October 2016 put Oxford as the top university in Europe and 6th in the world. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, announced in September 2017, put Oxford at number 1 in the world.