Wikidata:WikiProject Invasion biology/Task Force Hi Knowledge

About

This Task Force assists in integrating Wikidata with the Hi Knowledge platform that hosts structured information on key hypotheses in invasion biology, enriched with information between these hypotheses and between them and related pieces of information, like specific publications, datasets or research questions.

The integration is taking place in close collaboration with WikiProject Invasion biology and WikiProject Philosophy as well as with WikiProject Datasets, WikiProject Data Quality and the WikiCite initiative, particularly its Wikidata home at WikiProject Source MetaData.

Two approaches are being pursued for visualizing the integrated knowledge: Scholia and Open Knowledge Maps.

Activities

Data modeling

Key elements of invasion biology — species, habitats, ecological factors and changes thereof — as well as the components of Hi Knowledge — chiefly hypotheses, research questions, publications and datasets — need to be represented in Wikidata in a consistent fashion that will then form the basis for building tools to assist in the process.

Elements of invasion biology

These will be modeled in collaboration with WikiProject Invasion biology as well as with WikiProject Biology and documented there.

Taxa

Taxa will be modeled following practices established by WikiProject Taxonomy and documented there.

Habitats

Habitats are not yet modeled as such in Wikidata, and WikiProject Ecology is not functional yet, so initial data modeling will take place here but the intention would be that it would move over there eventually.

Ecological interactions

Only some ecological interactions are currently modeled as such in Wikidata, and WikiProject Ecology is not functional yet, so initial data modeling and documentation will take place here but the intention would be that it would move over there eventually.

Ecosystem dynamics

Habitats are not yet modeled as such in Wikidata, and WikiProject Ecology is not functional yet, so initial data modeling will take place here but the intention would be that it would move over there eventually, in coordination with related initiatives like Wikidata:WikiProject Climate Change.

Hi Knowledge components

Hypotheses

Main item: hypothesis (Q41719)   : proposed explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem

Hypotheses will be modeled in collaboration with WikiProject Philosophy — see documentation there.

Also consider

distinctions between explanatory and predictive hypotheses, as per
- ON PREDICTION AND EXPLANATION (Q110632051)   : scientific article by Nicholas Rescher published in 1958 that makes the case for distinguishing two types of hypotheses, explanatory and predictive ones or
the relationship between
- hypothesis (Q41719)   : proposed explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem and
  - knowledge gap hypothesis (Q69411923)   : hypothesis
  - supporting evidence (Q110632057)   : concept in epistemology
  - premise (Q321703)   : statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion
  - conclusion (Q20665666)   : the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning
  - proposition (Q108163)   : idea that is true or false and may be expressed in a declarative sentence
  - syllogism (Q107342)   : type of logical argument
overlap with existing properties like
- prerequisite (P4967): prior event or achievement that a person or team needs to complete before joining or obtaining the item topic, e.g. a qualifying round of a sports event, a lower-level course in an educational program, or a lower level of a professional qualification or
- has use (P366): main use of the subject (includes current and former usage) or
examples like Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (Q1092095)   : hypothesis on what initiated the Younger Dryas geological period, which uses
- has cause (P828): underlying cause, entity that ultimately resulted in this effect and
- has effect (P1542): effect of this item.

Research questions

Research questions will be modeled in collaboration with WikiProject Invasion biology and WikiProject Philosophy, with initial documentation taking place here. A simple but not very precise way to get a list of research questions is to look for publications with question words and question marks in their titles, e.g. as per

The following query uses these:

Properties: title (P1476)  

SELECT 
  DISTINCT
  ?item ?title

WHERE {
  hint:Query hint:optimizer "None".
  
{  SERVICE wikibase:mwapi {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:api "Search";
                    wikibase:endpoint "www.wikidata.org";
                    mwapi:srsearch "\"why\" the haswbstatement:P31=Q13442814".
      ?page_title wikibase:apiOutput mwapi:title.
  }
 }
UNION
{  SERVICE wikibase:mwapi {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:api "Search";
                    wikibase:endpoint "www.wikidata.org";
                    mwapi:srsearch "\"why\" -the haswbstatement:P31=Q13442814".
      ?page_title wikibase:apiOutput mwapi:title.
  }
 }
  BIND(IRI(CONCAT(STR(wd:), ?page_title)) AS ?item)
  
  ?item wdt:P1476 ?title.
  FILTER REGEX(LCASE(?title), "why").
  FILTER REGEX(LCASE(?title), "\\?").
  FILTER REGEX(LCASE(?title), "invasi(on|ve)").

}

Try it!

Publications

Publications will be modeled as suggested by WikiProject Source MetaData — see documentation there.

Publications about invasion biology

See the Scholia links in the following list.

biological invasion (Q446911)   : process in which organisms become established in a region where they previously did not exist and then rapidly expand their range
invasive species (Q183368)   : non-native organism causing damage to an established environment
- introduced species (Q1065449)   : species introduced either deliberately or accidentally through human activity
- 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species (Q311688)   : Wikimedia list article
invasion biology (Q42985020)   : branch of biology that deals with the spread of alien species
glossary of invasion biology terms (Q6059580)   : no description
invasion ecology (Q105094378)   : branch of ecology
habitat (Q52105)   : ecological or environmental area inhabited by a particular species; natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds a species population
invasion success (Q109467185)   : concept in invasion biology

Publications about hypotheses

Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories (Q51189323)   : scientific article published in March 2004

Datasets

Datasets will be modeled in collaboration with WikiProject Datasets — see documentation there.

Lexemes

Words, phrases and technical terms relevant to hypotheses in invasion biology will also be handled. The idea here is to facilitate the creation and curation of suitable Wikidata lexemes (see Wikidata:Lexicographical data) as well as the linking between lexemes and items, e.g. to facilitate activities like semantic annotation or entity recognition.

Properties

Based on the data models, a set of Wikidata properties will be defined as being in scope of the Task Force, and workflows will be built around them to facilitate curation of the properties and of items where they are being used. Whenever a suitable WikiProject exists, priority will be given to document things there. Should this not be the case, documentation will take place here.

Communication channels

We will start by using the Discussion page of WikiProject Invasion biology, i.e. Wikidata talk:WikiProject Invasion biology.

Queries

As the project develops, we will build queries to monitor progress and to facilitate exploration of invasion biology knowledge via this fledgling resource.

Participants

--Daniel Mietchen (talk) 19:53, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
--JonathanJeschke
--TinaHeger
--Peter Kraker
--Steph Tyszka

Funding

The integration between Hi Knowledge and Wikidata is supported by the VolkswagenStiftung as part of the enKORE grant (grant number 97863), which runs from September 2021 until February 2024.