Wikidata:WikiProject U.S. Congress

This is a tracking page for an ongoing project to translate contemporary and historical data about the United States Congress, its committees, and legislators into richer WikiData objects for research and transparency.

Scope and goals

The project covers all Representatives and Senators in the United States Congress (as well as Continental Congress), as well as related entities such as committees, rules, and reports.

The goals of this project are:

• to integrate extant structured data about U.S. Congress into WikiData from existing databases and academic research
• to extract structured information about U.S. Congress from textual sources like the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Data Model

People

Property	Values	Example	Notes
instance of (P31)	human (Q5)
position held (P39)	each office		with qualifiers: start time (P580) end time (P582) (omit if current) replaces (P1365) replaced by (P1366) (omit if current) series ordinal (P1545) (if known)
sex or gender (P21)	male (Q6581097) female (Q6581072) intersex (Q1097630) trans woman (Q1052281) trans man (Q2449503)	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ sex or gender (P21) ⟨ male (Q6581097)    ⟩
given name (P735)	first (given) name	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ given name (P735) ⟨ Paul (Q4925623)    ⟩
image (P18)	link to official portrait on Commons	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ image (P18) ⟨ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Ryan_official_Speaker_portrait.jpg ⟩
date of birth (P569)	date (or year) of birth
place of birth (P19)	a city or territory	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ place of birth (P19) ⟨ Janesville (Q257536)    ⟩
date of death (P570)	date (or year) of death
place of death (P20)	a city or territory
occupation (P106)	each occupation, including politician (Q82955)	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ occupation (P106) ⟨ politician (Q82955)    ⟩	with qualifiers: start time (P580) end time (P582) (omit if current)
employer (P108)	each employer, outside of formal offices/positions	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ occupation (P106) ⟨ Sam Brownback (Q317618)    ⟩	with qualifiers: start time (P580) end time (P582)
educated at (P69)	each institution	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ educated at (P69) ⟨ Miami University (Q590643)    ⟩	with qualifiers: start time (P580) end time (P582) (omit if current)
residence (P551)	each place of residence	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ place of birth (P19) ⟨ Janesville (Q257536)    ⟩	with qualifiers: start time (P580) end time (P582) (omit if current)
member of (P463)	affiliations, memberships, etc.	⟨ Paul Ryan (Q203966)    ⟩ member of (P463) ⟨ Delta Tau Delta (Q5254760)    ⟩	with qualifiers: start time (P580) end time (P582) (omit if current)

Related projects

• Wikidata:WikiProject Parliaments
• Wikidata:WikiProject Politics infoboxes
• Wikidata:WikiProject Heads of state and government

Participants

• User:Madcoverboy (Brian C. Keegan, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder)
• User:Zamadics (Joseph Zamadics, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder)
• User:BellaMGreer
• User:Henrybowditch