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Aim and Scope[edit]
The Smithsonian Libraries PCC Wikidata Pilot Project intended to connect library data with Wikidata and facilitate the creation of linked data focusing on the organization, collections, and research staff of the Smithsonian. This project has come to an end but individual projects have grown from this learning experience.
History of Sub-Projects[edit]
- African Ethnic Groups
- Items will be created, or, if already existing, enhanced, for the African ethnic group names currently used in local subject headings by the Warren M. Robbins Library of the National Museum of African Art.
- Art and artists' files
- Items will be created or enhanced if already exists, for the artists data matched in SI artists databases. Firstly, from the Libraries' and SAAM's (Smithsonian American Art Museum) databases.
- Chinese Ancestor Portraits
- Items will be created, or, if already existing, enhanced, for names matched to the Freer and Sackler Galleries collection of Chinese Ancestors portraits.
- Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Portraits
- Items will be created, or, if already existing, enhanced, for the sitters, artists, engravers, etc. featured in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology's Scientific Identity website, to be supplemented later by additional portraits which had been omitted from the website for various reasons (not digitized at the time, acquired later, etc.).
- Smithsonian Research Online
- Items will be created to facilitate scholarly discovery of publication citations and full online editions for works by researchers and scholars affiliated with the Smithsonian, drawing from the Smithsonian Research Online database.
- Smithsonian museums and research units (subproject)
- Smithsonian Profiles (subproject)
- Items will be created, or, if already existing, enhanced, for notable curatorial and research staff from the Smithsonian Profiles website.
Project Year-end report (Oct 2020-Sep 2021)[edit]
African ethnic group[edit]
Artists files[edit]
Chinese ancestors portraits[edit]
Dibner scientists portraits[edit]
Smithsonian Research Online[edit]
Timeline[edit]
Phase I: Data preps
Identifying and collection data sets for respective sub-projects, reviewing and selecting core and extended Wikidata properties for individual project needs. Organizing data and designing workflow via OpenRefine to confirm name entity's presence or absence in Wikidata.
| Project name | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| African Ethnic Groups | October-December 2020 | Updates |
| Art and artists' files | Spring-Fall 2020 | Updates |
| Chinese Ancestors Portraits | January 2020 -December 2020 | Updates |
| Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Portraits | October-December 2020 | Updates |
| Smithsonian Research Online | Updates | |
Phase II:
Creating new items in Wikidata, augmenting descriptions to existing Wikidata items based on the project needs.
| Project name | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| African Ethnic Groups | Updates | |
| Art and artists' files | Spring 2021- | Updates |
| Chinese Ancestors Portraits | Spring 2021- | Updates |
| Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Portraits | Spring 2021- | Updates |
| Smithsonian Research Online |
Phase III: Extracting Wikidata claims (statements), importing into local Wikidata instance (a Wikibase installation)
Phase IV: Wikibase federation collaboration
Contributors[edit]
- Diane Shaw, Special Collections Cataloger, and coordinator for the Smithsonian Libraries PCC Wikidata Project, also known as Uncommon fritillary (talk) 17:17, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
- Jackie Shieh, Descriptive Data Management Librarian. jshieh (talk) 19:11, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
- Heidy Berthoud (Berthoudh), Head of Resource Description, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- Anne Evenhaugen, Head Librarian, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Smithsonian Libraries. Aceven (talk)
- Richard Naples, Smithsonian Libraries --Drastician (talk) 17:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- Suzanne Pilsk, Metadata Librarian, Smithsonian Libraries--Pilsks
- Kathryn Phillips, Librarian for South, Southeast and Middle Eastern Art and Architecture, Smithsonian Libraries--JuliaAgricola
Additional team members are listed in respective sub-project pages.
Questions on Data Modeling via User Stories and WDQS[edit]
There were series of data modeling issues regarding organizational name changes
1) "Label" reflects the organization's "Official names", past and present.
2) Indication of date of name changes
3) Explicit and implicit relationships among units (museums and subcategories of art museum, postal museum, history museum)
4) Impact on queries and data model refinements
5) Reciprocal constraints
The Data Modeling via User Stories and WDQS examples intend to showcase various data models for the Smithsonian five sub-projects and its progressive data modeling process
Property Organization[edit]
Clarification Notes[edit]
Understanding the difference of "instance of" and "subclass of"[edit]
An "instance of (P31)" refers to a SPECIFIC thing - e.g. Seabiscuit is a SPECIFIC instance of a horse. The "Secretariat" entry has "instance of (P31)" for horse and has a property, "animal breed (P4743)" for Thoroughbred. Whereas "subclass of (P279)" is about hierarchies of concepts - like ‘horse is a subclass of mammal (Q7377)’.
Core Properties[edit]
These are the properties that all data contributed to Wikidata from Smithsonian projects must contain.
| Property | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Label | text string | Most clear, recognizable name for the individual or entity |
| Description | text string | brief description as specified by the subproject's rules |
| Alias | text string | other form(s) of name in use |
| instance of (P31) | human (Q5), organization (Q43229) |
put yours here |
| sex or gender (P21) | male (Q6581097) female (Q6581072) |
for human (Q5) when available |
| one or more significant property like occupation (P106), position held (P39), field of work (P101) |
astronomer (Q11063), Emperor of China (Q268218), mathematics (Q395) |
Need to identify terms, but necessary for people because of Wikidata's rules about notoriety |
| one or more identifiers | Each project should have at least an external identifier linking it to a Smithsonian record |
All Properties Related to People[edit]
| Property | Usage Notes | African Ethnic Groups | Artists' Files | Chinese Portraits | Dibner Portraits | Research Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | core (ethnic group (Q41710)) | core (human (Q5)) | core (human (Q5)) | core (human (Q5)) (sitter & artist), core (artworks) work of art (Q838948) |
core (human (Q5))(person), core organization (Q43229), etc (org) | |
| occupation (P106) | core | extended | core (sitter & artist) | core | ||
| date of birth (P569) | core | core | core (sitter & artist) | extended | ||
| date of death (P570) | core | core | core (sitter & artist) | extended | ||
| sex or gender (P21) | core | core | core (sitter & artist) | extended | ||
| family name (P734) | extended | core (sitter & artist) | nice | |||
| notable work (P800) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | extended | |||
| award received (P166) | extended | extended (sitter) | extended | |||
| position held (P39) | extended | extended (sitter) | core | |||
| place of birth (P19) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | extended | |||
| academic degree (P512) | extended | extended (sitter) | extended (qualifier for educated at (P69)) | |||
| start time (P580) | extended | extended (sitter; qualifier for educated at (P69)) | extended (qualifier for educated at (P69), director / manager (P1037)) | |||
| end time (P582) | extended | extended (sitter; qualifier for educated at (P69)) | extended (qualifier for educated at (P69)) | |||
| country of citizenship (P27) | extended | core | extended (sitter & artist) | |||
| name in native language (P1559) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | nice | |||
| given name (P735) | core (sitter & artist) | nice | ||||
| ISNI (P213) | core (sitter) | core (person, org) | ||||
| VIAF ID (P214) | core (sitter & artist) | extended (org) | ||||
| place of death (P20) | extended | extended | extended | |||
| educated at (P69) | extended (sitter & artist) | extended | ||||
| spouse (P26) | extended | nice | ||||
| part of (P361) | Use when ethnic group is itself a member of a larger ethnic group; make sure to create reciprocal "has part" relationship at entry for the larger group. | core | extended (artist corporate bodies) | core | ||
| has part (P527) | core | extended (artist corporate bodies) | extended (org) | |||
| described by source (P1343) | core | extended | ||||
| described at URL (P973) | core | extended | ||||
| location (P276) | core | core (artworks) | ||||
| Library of Congress authority ID (P244) | core | core (sitter) | ||||
| Smithsonian resource ID (P7851) | ||||||
| religion (P140) | extended | extended | ||||
| floruit (P1317) | extended | extended | ||||
| has works in the collection (P6379) | extended | extended (artist) | ||||
| image (P18) | extended | extended (sitter) | ||||
| birth name (P1477) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | ||||
| languages spoken, written or signed (P1412) | extended | extended (sitter) | ||||
| student of (P1066) | extended | extended (sitter) | ||||
| student (P802) | extended | extended (sitter) | ||||
| field of work (P101) | extended (sitter & artist) | core | ||||
| inception (P571) | core (artworks) | core (org) | ||||
| affiliation (P1416) | extended (sitter) | |||||
| alternate names (P4970) | extended (sitter & artist) | |||||
| ORCID iD (P496) | core | |||||
| LinkedIn personal profile ID (P6634) | nice | |||||
| employer (P108) | core | |||||
| participant (P710) | nice | |||||
| native label (P1705) | core | |||||
| colonial name (proposed) | core | |||||
| colonized by (proposed) | core | |||||
| official language (P37) | extended | |||||
| different from (P1889) | extended | |||||
| population (P1082) | extended | |||||
| pseudonym (P742) | core | |||||
| family (P53) | noble house NOT family name | core | ||||
| father (P22) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | ||||
| mother (P25) | extended | |||||
| sibling (P3373) | extended | |||||
| child (P40) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | ||||
| cause of death (P509) | extended | |||||
| manner of death (P1196) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | ||||
| place of burial (P119) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | ||||
| image of grave (P1442) | extended | |||||
| native language (P103) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | ||||
| temple name (P1785) | extended | |||||
| posthumous name (P1786) | extended | |||||
| type of kinship (P1039) | extended | |||||
| replaces (P1365) | extended | |||||
| replaced by (P1366) | extended | |||||
| follows (P155) | extended | |||||
| followed by (P156) | extended | |||||
| noble title (P97) | extended | |||||
| seal image (P158) | extended | |||||
| owner of (P1830) | extended | |||||
| residence (P551) | extended | extended (sitter & artist) | ||||
| official residence (P263) | extended | |||||
| Eight Banner Register (P470) | extended | |||||
| ethnic group (P172) | extended | |||||
| military rank (P410) | extended | |||||
| series ordinal (P1545) | extended | |||||
| time period (P2348) | extended | |||||
| subclass of (P279) | extended | |||||
| era name (P6902) | extended | |||||
| depicted by (P1299) | extended | |||||
| reference URL (P854) | extended | extended | ||||
| retrieved date (P813) | extended | |||||
| transliteration (P2440) | extended | |||||
| Möllendorff transliteration (P5139) | extended | |||||
| Pinyin transliteration (P1721) | extended | |||||
| Commons category (P373) | extended | extended | ||||
| country (P17) | extended (org) | |||||
| located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) | core (org) | |||||
| movement (P135) | extended (sitter & artist) | |||||
| genre (P136) | extended (artist, artworks) | |||||
| creator (P170) | core (artworks) | |||||
| depicts (P180) | extended (artworks) | |||||
| materials used (P186) | extended (artworks) | |||||
| Union List of Artist Names ID (P245) | core (artist) | |||||
| member of (P463) | extended (sitter & artist) | nice | ||||
| country of origin (P495) | extended (artworks) | |||||
| point in time (P585) | extended (qualifier for educated at (P69)) | |||||
| parent organization (P749) | core (org) | |||||
| academic major (P812) | extended (qualifier for educated at (P69)) | |||||
| official website (P856) | core (org) | |||||
| main subject (P921) | core (artworks) | |||||
| work location (P937) | extended (sitter & artist) | |||||
| doctoral thesis (P1026) | extended (qualifier for educated at (P69)) | |||||
| director / manager (P1037) | extended (org) | |||||
| official name (P1448) | nice (people), extended (org) | |||||
| title (P1476) | core (artworks) | |||||
| for work (P1686) | extended (qualifier for award received (P166)) | |||||
| FAST ID (P2163) | core (sitter) | |||||
| GRID ID (P2427) | extended (org) | |||||
| Crossref funder ID (P3153) | extended (org) | |||||
| on focus list of Wikimedia Project (P5008) | core (sitter) | |||||
| street address (P6375) | extended (org) | |||||
| curriculum vitae URL (P8214) | nice |
Properties Related to Exhibitions[edit]
- Exhibition catalogs get a separate Q number from the Q number for the exhibition itself
- Good model Wikidata item for a museum/art exhibition is the one for the Armory Show Q688909
| Property | Value | Usage Note |
|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | exhibition (Q464980) or art exhibition (Q667276) or temporary exhibition (Q29023906) | required |
| image (P18) | optional, if available | |
| country (P17) | required | |
| located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) | required | |
| coordinate location (P625) | optional, if available | |
| start time (P580) | required | |
| end time (P582) | required | |
| organizer (P664) | required | |
| location (P276) | required | |
| main subject (P921) | required | |
| catalog (P972) | optional, if available | |
| movement (P135) | optional, if available | |
| participant (P710) | optional, if available | |
| genre (P136) | optional, if available | |
| curator (P1640) | optional, if available | |
| title (P1476) | required | |
| Commons category (P373) | optional, if available |
Properties of Organizations/Units/Departments[edit]
| Property | Value | Usage Note | Modeling questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance of (P31) | some values from q that are required | required | structure of organizations e.g. museums and subclass of art museums and postal museum and history museums |
| parent organization (P749) | Smithsonian Institution (Q131626) | part of the core required | part of and parent organization |
| parent organization (P749) | give the Q for the level between this unit and Smithsonian Institution overall | required if applicable | |
| official name (P1448) | required - or not required ? (have we decided what the source is of the official names?) | date ranges of name changes? | |
| GRID ID (P2427) | optional | ||
| ISNI ID (P213) | optional |