Wikidata:WikiProject Chinese Culture and Heritage

In October 2020, a group of Chinese American librarians from several institutions formed a WikiProject: Chinese Culture and Heritage group and came up with some project ideas:

Collaborative learning

• Working with Wikidata
• SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service to do batch processes

Enhance existing Wikidata items, such as:

• Add Chinese characters
• Add additional statements
• Add references
• Add other IDs (like LC IDs, etc.)

Create new Wikidata items

• Create data models for special projects
• Create new Wikidata properties if needed (needs Wikidata community approval)

Since then, they have conducted several projects and have presented their findings about characteristics of Wikidata on Chinese related topics, challenges in creating Chinese related Wikidata entries, data model for Chinese women poets, and different visualizations using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service.

Project Coordinator:

• Xiaoli Li (University of California, Davis)

Group Members:

• Sai Deng (University of Central Florida);
• Sophie Dong (Syracuse University);
• Greta Heng (San Diego State University);
• Amei Hu (University of Iowa Libraries)
• Jie Huang (Penn State University);
• Jing Jiang (California Digital Library);
• Mingyan Li (University of Illinois Chicago Library)
• Clara Liao (Library of Congress);
• Hsianghui Liu-Spencer (Carleton College);
• Amanda Xu (National Agricultural Library);
• Yan Yu (University of Notre Dame);
• Lihong Zhu (Washington State University);
• Eric H. C. Chow (Hong Kong Baptist University);
• Suzhen Chen (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

 Info You can use the AutoEdit tool to quickly add label and description on WikiProject Chinese Culture and Heritage in many languages.

Projects

Chinese Women Poets

Project page

Data Models

Data Model for Chinese Women Poets

This data model is presented at three levels:

• Constant/Const
• Core
• Extended/Ext

Data Model for Chinese Women Poets

Level	Property	Value	Usage note
Const	instance of (P31)	human	Add usage note here.
Const	sex or gender (P21)	female	Add usage note here.
Const	occupation (P106)	poet	Add usage note here.
Const	field of work (P101)	poetry	Add usage note here.
Const	on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008)	Q116889971	Add usage note here.
Core	name in native language (P1559)	name in native language	Add usage note here.
Core	native language (P103)	native language	Recommended to pair with "name in native language".
Core	languages spoken, written or signed (P1412)	languages spoken, written or signed
Core	family name (P734)	family name
Ext	date of birth (P569)	date of birth
Ext	date of death (P570)	date of death
Ext	ethnic group (P172)	ethnic group	e.g., Han Chinese people
Ext	residence (P551)	residence
Ext	country of citizenship (P27)	country of citizenship	This field is normally used for dynasty information. It'll not be good to use value "Chinese" instead? The dynasty info is also in "time period."
Ext	birth name (P1477)	birth name
Ext	place of birth (P19)	place of birth
Ext	place of death (P20)	place of death
Ext	manner of death (P1196)	manner of death
Ext	cause of death (P509)	cause of death
Ext	date of burial or cremation (P4602)	date of burial or cremation
Ext	place of burial (P119)	place of burial
Ext	father (P22)	father
Ext	mother (P25)	mother
Ext	sibling (P3373)	sibling
Ext	spouse (P26)	spouse
Ext	child (P40)	child
Ext	ancestral home (P66)	ancestral home
Ext	occupation (P106)	occupation	other roles
Ext	field of work (P101)	field of work
Ext	employer (P108)	employer
Ext	part of (P361)	part of
Ext	member of (P463)	member of
Ext	member of political party (P102)	member of political party
Ext	academic degree (P512)	academic degree	e.g., jinshi
Ext	educated at (P69)	educated at
Ext	notable work (P800)	notable work
Ext	described at URL (P973)	described at URL
Ext	described by source (P1343)	described by source
Ext	Commons Creator page (P1472)	Commons Creator page
Ext	Commons category (P373)	Commons category
Ext	topic's main category (P910)	topic's main category
Ext	award received (P166)	award received
Ext	on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008)	on focus list of Wikimedia project
Ext	copyright status as a creator (P7763)	Copyright Status as a Creator
Ext	pseudonym (P742)	pseudonym
Ext	pen name (Q127843)	pen name
Ext	courtesy name (P1782)	courtesy name	字 We may want to include these fields since they are "very Chinese."
Ext	art name (P1787)	art-name	号
Ext	posthumous name (P1786)	posthumous name	谥号
Ext	religion or worldview (P140)	religion	Additional information
Ext	significant event (P793)	significant event	e.g., New Policies, 王安石变法
Ext	student of (P1066)	student of
Ext	copyright status as a creator (P7763)	copyright status as a creator
Ext	has works in the collection (P6379)	has works in the collection
Ext	image (P18)	image
Ext	VIAF ID (P214)	VIAF
Ext	ISNI (P213)	ISNI
Ext	Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268)	Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
Ext	NCL ID (P1048)	NCL ID
Ext	FAST ID (P2163)	FAST ID
Ext	Academia Sinica authority ID (P6705)	Ming Qing Archive ID
Ext	Union List of Artist Names ID (P245)	Union List of Artist Names
Ext	Library of Congress authority ID (P244)	LC NAR ID
Ext	GND ID (P227)	GND ID
Ext	P7859 (P7859)	WorldCat Identities ID

Data Model for Historical Places

Basic Description

Label	Description	Note/Example
English Label	English Description	For 县, English description should be: ancient county of China"
Chinese Label	Chinese Description	中国历史地名, 今XXXX
Simplified Chinese Label	Simplified Chinese Description

Core Statements

Property	Value	Note/Example
instance of (P31)	Wikidata item for type of place	ancient county of China (Q28739697)
country (P17)	China (Q29520)
official name (P1448)	String value	In traditional Chinese
native label (P1705)	String value	In traditional Chinese
coordinate location (P625)	Coordinates
located in time zone (P421)	UTC+08:00 (Q6905)
CHGIS ID (P4711)	String value

Participants

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