Wikidata:WikiProject Wikidata for research/Meetups/2015-02-25-2015-02-28-Bern

In February 2015, an Open Data hackathon is taking place in Bern (Q70). One of the topics to be worked on is taxonomic information on Wikidata.

February 25

Informal get-together

February 26

• Plazi (Q7203726) presentation at ETH Zurich (Q11942)
• Talk on Wikidata for Research
• Plazi workshop on taxonomic information in Wikidata
  • Enriching a small set of existing taxonomy-related Wikidata items:
    • Taxonomists
      • Auguste Forel (Q22530)
      • Felix Santschi (Q3068177)
      • Emil Goeldi (Q115643)
      • Walter Rausch (Q113978)
    • Papers
      • Biodiversity assessment of the fishes of Saba Bank atoll, Netherlands Antilles (Q15625490)
    • Taxa
      • Cerapachyinae (Q1156044)
      • Mycocepurus goeldii (Q13867042)
        • author: Auguste Forel (Q22530)
        • paper: Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent, récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith (Q19361647)
      • Cactaceae (Q14560)
      • Anochetus grandidieri (Q3687836)
      • Camponotus herculeanus (Q162870)
      • wolf (Q18498)
      • lion (Q140)
      • Varanus komodoensis (Q4504)
    • Properties
      • List
      • e.g. taxon author (P405)
        • Details on discussion page

February 27

• Pitches at the hackathon:
  • Link the descriptions of the species of the world to the respective names
    • Cite & Link: crawl the grey web to find PDFs of references cited in species descriptions
    • Pre-OCR: process the image quickly to compute proxies for OCR quality
    • Itemize: create the Wikidata items needed to describe species
      • working on Wikidata property profiles for
        • species item
          • Mycocepurus goeldii (Q13867042)
        • author item
          • Auguste Forel (Q22530)
          • possibly with affiliation
        • paper item
          • Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent, récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith (Q19361647)
        • collection item
• Missing Wikidata properties:
  • type specimen
    • with qualifiers for holotype, paratype, lectotype etc.
  • ZooBank ID eample: http://zoobank.org/360C7C81-9BA6-4CEC-B92A-9F02B5E06768 as their persistent ID for taxonomic names.
    • There is now ZooBank ID for name or act (P1746)
      • usage
  • Antweb ID example: http://www.antweb.org/specimen/CASENT0915954 as their persistent ID
  • Plazi ID example: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C4EDC17-8AD7-9DD7-F1A5-AB856E8C5BCA as their persistent ID
  • Hymenoptera Name Server ID
  • Collection Code ID (eg. example: AAFC-PRC as a collection Code registered at the Global Registry of Biorepositories (GRBio), but without a persistent Identifier)
• tackling synonyms, revisions
• Presentation of Wikidata for research

February 28

• continued from above
• observations from this discussion on how to handle type specimens:
  • see taxonomic type (P427) in Ichthyosaurus anningae (Q19346236), Acanthocalycium ferrarii (Q337692) (holotypes) and Cereus hexagonus (Q1055079) (lectotype)
  • the latter is also linked to paper and author