Wikidata:WikiProject University degrees/Properties
What properties will be useful for modelling university degrees in Wikidata?
General properties of a university[edit]
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| instance of | P31 | Item | instance of: that class of which this subject is a particular example and member; different from P279 (subclass of); for example: K2 is an instance of mountain; volcano is a subclass of mountain (and an instance of volcanic landform) | HTW Berlin <instance of> university of applied sciences | - |
| inception | P571 | Point in time | date of establishment: time when an entity begins to exist; for date of official opening use P1619 | HTW Berlin <inception> 1994 | - |
| official website | P856 | URL | official website and home page: URL of the official page of an item (current or former). Usage: If a listed URL no longer points to the official website, do not remove it, but see the "Hijacked or dead websites" section of the Talk page | HTW Berlin <official website> http://www.htw-berlin.de | - |
| country | P17 | Item | country: sovereign state that this item is in (not to be used for human beings) | HTW Berlin <country> Germany | - |
| students count | P2196 | Quantity | student and schoolchild: number of students of any type in an educational organization. Qualify with " point in time" (P585). The most recent count would generally have preferred rank; data for previous years normal rank (not deprecated rank). Don't overwrite. | HTW Berlin <students count> 13,355 | - |
| located in the administrative territorial entity | P131 | Item | administrative territorial entity: the item is located on the territory of the following administrative entity. Use P276 for specifying locations that are non-administrative places and for items about events. Use P1382 if the item falls only partially into the administrative entity. | HTW Berlin <located in the administrative territorial entity> Berlin | - |
| grants | P5460 | Item | award: confers degree, honor, award, prize, title, certificate or medal denoting achievement to a person or organization | HTW Berlin <grants> Master of Science | - |
General properties of a degree[edit]
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| instance of | P31 | Item | instance of: that class of which this subject is a particular example and member; different from P279 (subclass of); for example: K2 is an instance of mountain; volcano is a subclass of mountain (and an instance of volcanic landform) | Bachelor of Arts <instance of> academic degree | - |
| subclass of | P279 | Item | subclass of: this item is a subclass (subset) of that item; all instances of this item are instances of that item; different from P31 (instance of), e.g.: K2 is an instance of mountain; volcano is a subclass of mountain (and an instance of volcanic landform) | Bachelor of Arts <subclass of> bachelor's degree | - |
| academic degree | P512 | Item | academic degree: academic degree that the person holds | Douglas Adams <academic degree> Bachelor of Arts | - |
| academic major | P812 | Item | academic major: major someone studied at college/university | Douglas Adams <academic major> English literature | - |
| academic minor | P811 | Item | academic minor: minor someone studied at college/university | Douglas Adams <academic minor> English literature | - |
| short name | P1813 | Monolingual text | abbreviation: short name of a place, organisation, person, journal, wikidata property, etc. Used by some Wikipedia templates. | doctor rerum naturalium <short name> "Dr. rer. nat. (German)" | - |
It turns out that many academic degrees are not well-formed in Wikidata. Generally the property ("academic major" for students, "academic discipline" for research) is missing for most fields. They should be instances of the major and subclasses of the discipline, as there are constantly new subsubdisciplines being invented.
Degrees already found in Wikidata[edit]
There are many (and quite chaotic) degrees already listed in Wikidata. Confusingly, there is an item with the same name (academic degree (Q189533)) as a property (academic degree (P512)). See discussion on the talk page [1]. There are also lists of degrees such as this list of academic degrees [2] and this list of academic titles [3] in Dutch.
Note the difference between the item academic degree (Q189533) an institution awards and the property academic degree (P512) that a person has!
Many of these degrees should be replaced with academic degree -> Bachelor (or Master) and academic major -> (the major)
Proposed properties[edit]
Important items[edit]
- university (Q3918)
- university of applied sciences (Q1365560)
- higher education institution (Q38723)
- academic degree (Q189533)
- postgraduate degree (Q23015928)
- Diplom (Q5978719)
Please add more as you discover the need for them!
List of academic disciplines[edit]
This is important as we propose not creating items academic-degree-in-discipline, but having a university confer a degree, and these degrees being offered in a selection of disciplines.
The following query uses these:
- Properties: instance of (P31)
SELECT ?discipline ?disciplineLabel WHERE { ?discipline wdt:P31 wd:Q11862829. SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }