Wikidata:Property proposal/research site
research site[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
Motivation[edit]
My primary interest in this property is the import of clinical trial (Q30612) data from ClinicalTrials.gov (Q5133746) by the model at Wikidata:WikiProject Medicine/Data models/Trials. There are 200,000 clinical trials in the digital records of medical research. Trials have researchers and research institutes associated with them, and also those researchers publish in articles which WikiCite (Q30035267) indexes. Off-wiki and out in the wild, it is challenging to match the names of people running research to the papers they publish. Many people would be surprised to hear this, considering small trials consume millions of dollars of research and tying the trials to papers should be trivial. Papers such as Automatically Linking Registered Clinical Trials to their Published Results with Deep Highway Networks. (Q55006070) describe the difficulty.
The big picture motivation is to interconnect authors → publications → research → research sites → institutions → the communities who are stakeholders in the research. For medical research especially, the research site determines which community takes on the risks of research participation and who ought to have access to the outcomes.
Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:30, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Although I am mostly interested in importing clinicaltrials.gov medical research, this property can work for any sort of research. Typical research will have an institutional affiliation and a place of research. Often these will be the same, such as when research happens at a university for a university. Sometimes they can be different, such as when a medical school organizes research which happens at a hospital. The term "research site" gets interpreted in many ways. Some information sources name a city as a research site, which means that although the research happens in a certain location it is recruiting participants from the city, and researchers will discuss the results as city-results while they also understand that a particular institution did the research.
I think that Wikidata should mirror this ambiguity. Sometimes clinicaltrials.gov is very specific about a research site, naming a particular department or organization, and sometimes it is ambiguous as just naming a country. We should import whatever level of specificity the most authoritative available source reports and we reference that source, usually clinicaltrials.gov for medical research. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:41, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Notified participants of WikiProject Research projects
Notified participants of WikiProject Medicine
- This proposal is cross posted in "place" and "natural science" review categories. Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:18, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Support We do already have a lot of location properties, but this one I think is still missing. ArthurPSmith (talk) 16:58, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support - and very excited about the clinical trials import! − Pintoch (talk) 18:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 19:46, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 14:33, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
@Bluerasberry, ChristianKl, YULdigitalpreservation, ArthurPSmith, Pintoch: 
Done: research site (P6153). − Pintoch (talk) 15:38, 21 November 2018 (UTC)