Wikidata:WikiCite/Theses and dissertations

About

This page summarizes efforts to collect and structure data about theses and dissertations in Wikidata. The project is part of WikiCite.

Scope

Instance of thesis (Q1266946) and its subclasses.

General theses and dissertations

Use of these classes should be avoided in favour of a more specific subclass.

• thesis (Q1266946): a scholarly work submitted as a requirement to obtain an academic degree; Use Q187685 for PhD thesis
• dissertation (Q1385450): conflation of concepts

Specific types of theses and dissertations

• doctoral thesis (Q187685): document submitted in support of candidature for a doctorate
• Doctor of Science thesis (Q51282999): academic thesis
• habilitation thesis (Q1414362): type of thesis necessary for teaching in German universities
• masters with honours thesis (Q111476177): thesis produced for the degree of master's with honours
• master's thesis (Q1907875): thesis submitted in support of candidature for a master's degree
• bachelor's with honors thesis (Q111475835): thesis produced for the degree of bachelor's with honors
• bachelor's thesis (Q798134): thesis reporting a research project undertaken as part of an undergraduate course of education leading to a bachelor's degree
• postgraduate diploma thesis (Q111475860): thesis produced for a postgraduate diploma
• diploma thesis (Q30749496): type of thesis
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Properties

See Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData for general properties for bibliographic items. The following list of additional properties is preliminary with details to be discussed.

On thesis item

• thesis submitted to (P4101)
• reviewed by (P4032)
• thesis committee member (P9161)
• ...

On person item

• academic degree (P512)
• conferred by (P1027)
• doctoral advisor (P184)
• doctoral student (P185)
• student (P802)
• student of (P1066)
• educated at (P69)
• ...

Identifiers

• Theses.fr person ID (P4285)
• Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID (P4465)
• EThOS thesis ID (P4536)
• OCLC control number (P243)
• Handle ID (P1184)
• DOI (P356)
• ProQuest document ID (P6572)
• ...

Example data schemas

• New Zealand Thesis Project data schema
• University of Washington Application Profile
• ...

Example items

• A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud (Q28971627)
• Properties of expanding universes (Q42307084)
• X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (Q50560072)
• Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer (Q50560459)
• ...

Data Sources

• http://www.ndltd.org/
• http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/
• https://oatd.org/
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Dashboards

• Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Theses by institution
• User:DrThneed/All theses dashboard (theses by type rather than by institution)

See also

• Wikidata:WikiProject University degrees
• Wikidata:WikiProject Higher education
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