Wikidata:WikiProject Research expeditions

About

This WikiProject documents the activities of an international working group on research expeditions. The participants of this WikiProject aim to develop a detailed schema to describe research expeditions in Wikidata. This schema is then intended feed into an effort to create an agreed TDWG data standard for modelling research expeditions as well as the development of best practice documentation. As part of this effort we hope to create a manual and/or hand out guiding editors on how to add or edit research expeditions in Wikidata. We welcome input on this topic from any interested parties so please leave your comments or questions on the discussion page or get in contact with one of the members.

It is intended that the WikiProject pages will be improved and added to during the project.

Meetings

TDWG Meeting 2025

2025 TDWG Working Session: Modelling Research Expeditions Task Group

Online 24 apr 2025 17:00 CET

Wikimania 2024 meetup

A meetup will be held at #Wikimania for those editors interested in Research Expeditions. This will take place on the 8th of August 2024 at 5pm Poland time in the Dilijan Room 3 at the Wikimania venue. See this link.

Items

See sub page Examples. For a full list (automatically updated by Listeria bot) of research expeditions in Wikidata sorted by the property 'Country of origin', check the tab Listeria List.

Main items

Current model item: Harriman Alaska Expedition

Other items

1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition Q4558719
Siboga Expedition Q4201627
Southwest Pacific Expedition 2017 Q121867527
Third Archbold Expedition (1938-1939) Q109712735
Tristan da Cunha Expedition (1937-1938) Q12007460
Valdivia Expedition Q1312945
Dominion Museum expedition 1962-1963 Q124815298
Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919 - 1923 Q124738156

Properties

For a list of existing properties, property constraints etc. see tab Properties

Queries

For a list of queries: see tab Queries

Visualisations

A visualisation of research expeditions based on Wikidata items (and connected to specimens published on GBIF): https://www.expeditia.info , a work in progress by Joaquim Santos.
Research expeditions can also be visualised via Wikidocumentaries. See for example the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition as a Wikidocumentary.

English Wikipedia article infobox template (draws data from Wikidata)

User:Avocadobabygirl produced this amazing Wikipedia infobox template. To see it in action see this Wikipedia article. This template pulls from the research expedition Wikidata item. It will only display the data from that research expedition Wikidata item if that data is appropriately referenced.

Subpages

See Tab All project pages

Research expedition related projects

Wikidata WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions

Commons

Commons category: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Research_expeditions
See also Commons category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Expedition_Wikipedia_project
See structured data on commons discussion document
Example image

Participants

[+] Add yourself to the list

The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
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Sabine von Mering (talk)
Ambrosia10 (talk) 12:55, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Daniel Mietchen (talk) 13:00, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Dag Endresen (talk) 13:10, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
MNHNL pbraun (talk) 13:22, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
AHendriksen-collecties (talk) 12:38, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

References

von Mering S, Cubey RWN, Endresen D, Hendriksen A, Leachman S, Mietchen D, Santos J (2024) Advancing Community Curation of Research Expeditions: A Collaborative Journey with Wikidata and Biodiversity Information Standards. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8: e138921. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.138921
von Mering S, Braun PJ-C, Cubey RWN, Groom Q, Haston EM, Hendriksen A, Johaadien R, Leachman S, Marsden L, Rainer H, Santos J, Endresen D (2023) Modelling research expeditions in Wikidata: best practice for standardisation and contextualisation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111427. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111427 Slides as PDF.
Schema.org information for expedition
TDWG Expeditions task group home page
TDWG Expedition task group on GitHub : also a work in progress: we aim to discuss the datamodel and related properties at github.