User:Ambrosia10

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Hi I'm Ambrosia10, otherwise known as Siobhan Leachman. I tend to curate Wikidata manually, although I do use various tools for bulk editing such as the author disambiguator tool, quickstatements and OpenRefine. I particularly enjoy working on New Zealand or biodiversity related content and am keen to increase the coverage in Wikidata of women in science and New Zealand endemic species. However I'm omnivorous and contribute to many projects unrelated to my favourite topics. I have participated in and conducted training sessions and workshops with museum, herbaria and educational professionals focusing in on botanists and other such scientific collectors and contributors to biodiversity knowledge. I'm also keen in encouraging the reuse of Wikidata QIDs and associated data, particularly by natural history institutions, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and by the website Bionomia. Further information on me and my Wikiverse contributions can be found on my ORCID.

Work currently being undertaken (March 2024)[edit]

Wikidata:WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions[edit]

I've received a funding grant from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to undertake a pilot project with New Zealands National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa to test out the proposed research expedition schema created by Wikidata:WikiProject_Research_expeditions. For more information on the project see the project page for Wikidata:WikiProject_Te_Papa_Research_Expeditions. The aim of this project is to trial the current research expeditions schema proposed by the Wikidata WikiProject Research Expeditions by creating or enriching Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff while employed at the museum.

The intention is to ensure these research expedition items are, where possible, richly interlinked with data such as the participants, the location information, and institutions that house objects collected during the expedition and publications, archives and artworks generated during or as a result of the expedition. Any issues raised during this project will be discussed with both interested staff at Te Papa as well as WikiProject Research Expedition participants and the wider Wikidata and Biodiversity community. These discussions will aim to improve the schema as well as elicit recommendations for best practice when implementing the schema. The plan is to resolve as many issues as possible prior to the WikiProject and the TDWG Research Expeditions working group publishing recommendations and/or a Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG data standard guiding other institutions when undertaking similar Wiki work. See the discussion page of the WikiProject Research Expeditions for examples of issues that are currently under debate. The outcomes of Te Papa WikiProject Research Expeditions will in this way assist with the generation of best practice documentation anticipated to be generated by the TDWG Research Expeditions Working Group. This pilot project will also provide opportunities to engage with the digital access, natural history, ethnology, library and archives staff at Te Papa on this work and the potential for it to be of benefit to Te Papa.

If other editors want to discuss this project or have any concerns please contact me on my talk page as I would be extremely happy to discuss this project and the editing being undertaken while engaged with this project.

Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024[edit]

I'm a co-organiser of a group of Wikimedians intending to run a Wikidata workshop and undertake further outreach at the International Botanical Congress. See the WikiProject page for further information.

Women Genera project[edit]

I'm working on a project to get all the flowering plant genera named after women in to Wikidata and linked to the Wikidata items for the women in order to analyse the data and to participate in and co-author a scientific publication on this analysis. We recently published on this project see Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women

Research Expeditions and possible Research Expedition pilot project at Te Papa[edit]

I'm also part of a collaboration of biodiversity informatics professionals working to increase the coverage of and the linking to and from scientific expeditions in Wikidata. See the WikiProject Research Expeditions. We will be collaborating to ensure the schema recommended to be used for scientific expeditions in Wikidata is consistent and covers all appropriate examples of scientific expeditions and will likely to hold events to train and encourage natural history GLAM folk to add scientific expeditions to Wikidata. As part of this work I am applying to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to establish a three month pilot project at Te Papa to test the proposed schema, engage more widely with Te Papa staff and the general public on research expedition events and produce a project report intended to assist others to implement such projects.

New Zealand Thesis project[edit]

I'm also working on a project in conjunction with other New Zealand Wikidata editors to import and enrich a dataset of all publicly available New Zealand theses into Wikidata. This includes working on the mix'n'match dataset for the NZThesisProject. See NZ Thesis Project. See this presentation for further information.

Biodiversity Heritage Library[edit]

I am actively involved in the WikiProject Biodiversity Heritage Library. I am the current chair (from 23 January 2024 onwards) of the monthly BHL Wiki meeting. I am an invited guest and attend the BHL cataloguing task force meetings where I assist with any Wikidata queries they may have.

Mix'n'match[edit]

I'm currently working on the BHL creator identifier, the Harvard Index of Botanists, and the Entomology mix'n'match datasets. I have been active in developing the "scientific collector" schema and follow this when adding data for botanical, entomological, mammal etc collectors. See this Cradle tool schema for scientific collectors. I have previously met with data folk at the National Library of New Zealand and am assisting them by working on the Alexander Turnbull datasets currently in Mix'n'match.

Other Wikidata work[edit]

I'm working on New Zealand species items, particularly NZ endemic moths, expanding and updating new taxonomic treatments and adding first descriptions as well as images to Wikidata.

I've been working on datasets in https://nztcs.org.nz/. This will be a work in progress as these reports come out regularly and will need updating. Also the taxonomy used in these reports may differ from Wikidata items and as a result ingests of this data may miss particular species.

I'm working on New Zealand's National Museum Te Papa's data on botanical collectors, attempting to disambiguate them, add them to Wikidata and then, if possible, find their ORCID or their death date and add them to Bionomia Track to link specimens they've identified or collected and then add their Bionomia identifier back into Wikidata.

I'm working on the biodiversity knowledge graph, in particular although not exclusively, on collectors of scientific specimens and authors of scientific papers. I'm also a keen participant in the WikiProject Biodiversity. As part of this I'm working through the Biodiversity Heritage Library dataset in Mix'n'Match to assist with the linking of metadata within that digital library and Wikidata. Adding images to Wikicommons and linking them to Wikidata via their creators - with an emphasis on women scientific illustrators. For example see this for NZ women artists. I intend also work on making sure the women in this https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011940858 publication are in Wikidata.

Projects "to do"[edit]

  • Women scientific illustrators in my BHL spreadsheet. Go into items they've worked on, make sure the work in Wikidata, add them to the work data and the work data to their item. Document workflow so Michelle can also work on this. Draft currently problem with libraries, see this and this, with cataloguing and description issues, show how Wikidata/WikiCommons and Wikipedia can be the solution. This presentation from 26min sets up the issue. Look at it through the lens of women illustrators.
  • Keen to do an OpenRefine project to get all Canterbury Museum Records articles into Wikidata. Will have to be a manual effort as no DOIs, no single article urls (only urls for the whole volumes). Similar is needed for the New Zealand entomology society journal and newsletters as well as New Zealand regional botanical society newsletters. This is important as they all contain vital information on NZ biodiversity.
  • Add the internet archive wayback machine links for the NZ Entomological Society publications.
  • Use this property diel cycle for nocturnal or day flying NZ moths.


Queries[edit]

My SPARQL Query page can be found here.


Wikidata Knowledge Grapher


Queries to work on[edit]

WikiProject Biodiversity[edit]

#HiddenWomen Project for BiCIKL_H2020[edit]

I participated in the BiCIKL 2020 hackathon and contributed to the Hidden Women project there.

  • Interesting way of structuring data to show the general area a botanist collected specimens from see this

Notes to self[edit]

  • GOOD EXAMPLE FOR PRESENTATIONS!: NAME AUTHORITY George Eiby
  • For illustrators contributing to work see P3919 - contributed to published work
  • For example of newspaper reference see Douglas Noël Adams entry.
  • For model on how to cite scientific paper see this.
  • See lion [1] for a model to add more detailed data to particular species in Wikidata.
  • See this for basionym use and this for its inverse
  • See this for an example of how to deal with subspecies in Wikidata.
  • See [2] for discussion on how to deal with books split into volumes.
  • See Q60572861 as an example for extra info regarding married and birth names.
  • See this for things to try out!
  • See this (No. 42) [3] discussion started by Quentin re scientific names
  • See this toolcalled cradle to help manually create wikidata items.
  • See this old tool SourceMD.
  • CiteQ template example of pushback
  • See this example of a misspelled taxon
  • JSTOR GLOBAL PLANTS identifier example

Sarjeant Gallery notes[edit]

  • See this as it's got some great queries.
  • TABernacle
  • See this and also the slides as great resources for GLAM roundtripping.

Examples of scientific articles[edit]

Try this one first.

Examples of scientific book properties[edit]

This tool is fabulous for adding works See Cradle tool TABernacle

Synonyms of species[edit]

Rod suggests "Regarding the perennial issue of taxa and taxon names I think it’s useful to think of Wikidata as following what databases such as the Catalogue of Life do: list every name, if name is accepted link name to parent taxon using P171, if name is not accepted (i. e., a synonym) link to accepted name using P1420. P171 – parent taxon P1420 – taxon synonym"

Species item properties[edit]

  • SEE THIS from Rod Page explaining how to structure taxonomic literature citations in Wikidata.
  • SEE THIS from Rod Page - a tool using BHL DOIs to get documents into Wikidata!
  • original combination (P1403) Q13879041 see this]
  • publication in which this taxon name was established (P5326) See Q2006958 this item for statement and the use of it in a reference
  • taxon author citation (P6507)
  • Don't forget property P5304 type locality (biology) See Q21253786 as an example.
  • For NZ don't forget "invasive to (P5588)" - Not sure what reference here is appropriate. Obv Dept. of Conservation for NZ but worldwide?
  • For a model botany species see Q158695 and Q311747


See this for how to add in original description of species and making reference to BHL page id. Could also add BHL bibliographic id too?
See this example of how to model a type specimen.

Invasive Species[edit]

Copyright status[edit]

See this item Q1356297 or Q175036 as an example for Copyright status See this item Q27918954 as example for copyrighted artwork in NZ jurisdiction (ie 50yrs) See this item Q12418 as example of public domain 100 yrs See this item for Q28471337 as example of public domain 80 yrs

See this item Q1462485 as an example of an appropriately modelled copyright dispute.

See this as an example of how to deal with copyrighted material.

See this example of copyright owned by will recipient.

See this as an example of works out of copyright in NZ but in copyright in other jurisdictions.

Example of iNaturalist reference for source of image[edit]

Remember about host and especially parasite see Q10253316 and [9]

BHL work[edit]

See Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL

Notes to self[edit]

Example for BHL citation See this

See this as a model for BHL handwritten field books, particularly those that are in the Smithsonian Field Book Project. For scientific papers don't forget how important the "Main subject" property is - see for example this query

See Wikidata Property P6605 Plant Illustrations artist ID for when putting BHL illustrators into Wikidata.

See this for BHL women illustrators

See this for institutions needed to be added to Wikidata

See this document as it gives a great summary of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata.

Best practice for identifiers that have been merged by BHL is to deprecate the merged identifiers and use the reason for depreciation as Q67125514 "deprecated identifier value".

Slide that may help replicate Wikidata Wales images project[edit]

See this
Also check out "Wikidata:Projects" as they have very useful documentation!

Remember to write, record and DOCUMENT if you decide to self create a project!

Useful links[edit]

See this for example of double surname
See this for collaboration work
See this
Kākāpō schema
Don't forget "on focus list of wikimedia project" and then "American Women's History Initiative"
Example of double surname https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96209543 Preferred reasoning https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7452

  • Zotero upgrade (drag and drop doesn't work for me so use A option given here

New Zealand query[edit]

See this for info on different years of NZ. Also UNION is "or"!

American Women's History Initiative[edit]

See Josephine Mason Milligan Q66503677 as an example


Open Refine editing resources[edit]

Invasive to query[edit]

here

Documentation for Mix'n'match[edit]

OpenRefine[edit]

Tools[edit]

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