Wikidata:WikiProject Education

This WikiProject organizes work around education: schools, fields of study, biographical education details, and more. Join us! If you've been doing education-related work on Wikidata that's not categorized below, please add it!

Vision

Why do you perform education-related work on Wikidata? What products would you love to see built from this data? Who benefits? Add your thoughts below.

• structured data from sister WikiProject Education (Q8486648) on other wikis
• an international college guide. No longer do third-party organizations have to spend so much of their time data-gathering and cleaning. They're free to focus on personalizing the search for each student and family.
• social media guide: instantly follow all liberal arts colleges...Division 3 football teams...engineering schools...university presidents...universities founded before 1850.
• deep inference support. Since we can know where academics work, and what they publish, and what awards they win, we can support college search that is truly indicative of academic strengths. Not just university public relations materials.
  • think also about college similarity calculation using co-attended metrics with people's alma maters. Or questions like "which colleges send graduates to study marine biology? Or at UCLA graduate programs?"

To do

• member of (P463): use information from associations and consortia
• instance of (P31): use information from institution types

Entities and their subclasses

• view the graph of educational organization (Q5341295) at the Wikidata Graph Builder

Properties

Wikidata property related to education (Q22984450) and what links there

The {{Education properties}} template:

People

• educated at (P69)
  • academic degree (P512)
  • academic major (P812)
  • start time (P580)
  • end time (P582), if all you know is the graduation date
  • point in time (P585), if all you know is a single point in time the person was enrolled at the institution
  • If the person earned multiple degrees from a single institution, use multiple educated at (P69) statements so you can enter the qualifiers for one degree separately from the qualifiers for the other degree.
• doctoral advisor (P184) and doctoral student (P185)
• student of (P1066) and student (P802)

External identifiers

• Google Scholar author ID (P1960), DBLP author ID (P2456) for researchers publishing in computer science venues, and all person-related information at Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData
• Masaryk University person ID (P1803) for people associated with this university

Educational institutions

• instance of (P31)
  • public university (Q875538) or private university (Q902104)
  • special areas of academic focus
    • engineering school (Q1663017)
    • liberal arts college (Q1377182)
    • seminary (Q233324)
    • medical school (Q494230)
    • law school (Q1321960)
    • business school (Q1143635)
    • art school (Q383092), conservatory (Q184644), film school (Q380093), school of design
  • involuntary membership in groups
    • e.g., Harvard University (Q13371) instance of (P31) Colonial Colleges (Q1188663), a historic status
    • land-grant university (Q615150) and other government-designated statuses
• inception (P571)
• official name (P1448)
  • start time (P580), end time (P582), and point in time (P585) are useful if the name changed over time
• has part(s) (P527)
  • constituent parts of the institution (e.g., Yale University (Q49112) has part(s) (P527) Yale Law School (Q1143289), which itself is part of (P361) Yale University (Q49112))
  • let's not use has subsidiary (P355) and parent organization (P749) for this relationship even though User:TptBot and Wikidata:Primary sources tool expresses it this way
• member of (P463) for voluntary membership in groups
  • E.g., Association of American Universities (Q743812)
• located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) should be preferred over headquarters location (P159), unless there are multiple locations and one truly is a headquarters.
  • coordinate location (P625), P969 (P969), and postal code (P281) for each location
  • country (P17), and for each location if the institution exists in multiple countries
• students count (P2196)
  • applies to part (P518)
    • undergraduate student (Q21094885) or graduate student (Q21094889)
    • any other group of students
  • point in time (P585) when the student count was taken
• represented by (P1875) a university and college sports club (Q21279592) which
  • represents (P1268): that school
  • mascot (P822) points to some entity that is instance of (P31) mascot character (Q386208) and depicts (P180) whatever the mascot is (e.g., a duck)
  • has part(s) (P527) all of:
    • college sports team (Q18558301) for that school
      • league (P118). E.g., Wisconsin Badgers football (Q8027119) instance of (P31) American football team (Q17156793) and has league (P118) Big Ten Conference (Q729478). Many educational institutions belong to multiple conferences because, for instance, football may play in one conference and other sports in another.
      • part of (P361) that university and college sports club (Q21279592)
• leader of the educational institution
  • rector (P1075), chairperson (P488), director / manager (P1037), even chief executive officer (P169)
  • qualify with start time (P580), end time (P582), and point in time (P585)
• religion or worldview (P140) for faith-based institutions
• official website (P856), Twitter (X) username (P2002), Facebook username (P2013), Instagram username (P2003), and general website account on (P553) qualified by website username or ID (P554)
• named after (P138) if notable
• topic's main template (P1424), Commons category (P373), topic's main category (P910), topic's main Wikimedia portal (P1151)
• motto (P1546) or motto text (P1451)
• Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (P2643) to classify US institutions
• employees (P1128) with unit values the type of employee, i.e. teacher (Q37226) etc., and point in time (P585) qualifier

Wikimedia categorization and navigation

• category of associated people (P1792)
• topic's main template (P1424)

Education-specific identifiers

• from the National Center for Education Statistics (Q1966994)
  • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID (P1771) for colleges and universities
  • NCES district ID (P2483) for school districts
  • NCES school ID (P2484) for schools
• Japanese High School Code (P1386)
• DfE URN (P2253)
• Ministry of Education of Chile school ID (P1919)
• Department of Education and Skills roll number (P4331)
• AICTE institute application ID (P4897)
• AICTE Permanent ID (P6513)
• U-DISE code (P6391)
• AISHE code (P6392)

Education & research-related identifiers

• GRID ID (P2427)

Non-education-specific identifiers

• GeoNames ID (P1566) and GNIS Feature ID (P590)
• Curlie ID (P998), and don't forget to get all languages with qualifier language of work or name (P407)
• authority control such as GND ID (P227), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268), Open Library ID (P648), VIAF ID (P214) and many others. The Authority Control gadget is helpful.

Education by country or region

Overview at Wikidata:WikiProject Education/education by country or region

Sample infobox at c:Category:Education in Norway

Properties

• number of out-of-school children (P2573)
• compulsory education (minimum age) (P3270)
• compulsory education (maximum age) (P3271)
• literacy rate (P6897)

Teaching and education by subject

field of education

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
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)	mathematics education <subclass of> education	-
is the study of	P2578	Item	research: the object that an academic field studies; distinct from field of work (P101), which is used for human, organization, etc.	mathematics education <is the study of> mathematics	studied in
studied in	P2579	Item	academic discipline: subject is studied by this science or domain	mathematics education <studied in> didactics of mathematics	is the study of

field of teaching

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
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)	didactics of mathematics <subclass of> teaching methodology	-
is the study of	P2578	Item	research: the object that an academic field studies; distinct from field of work (P101), which is used for human, organization, etc.	didactics of mathematics <is the study of> mathematics education	studied in
studied in	P2579	Item	academic discipline: subject is studied by this science or domain	didactics of mathematics <studied in> teaching methodology	is the study of

skill which is part of a subject

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
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)	learning to read <subclass of> learning	-
is the study of	P2578	Item	research: the object that an academic field studies; distinct from field of work (P101), which is used for human, organization, etc.	learning to read <is the study of> reading	studied in
studied in	P2579	Item	academic discipline: subject is studied by this science or domain	learning to read <studied in> language pedagogy	is the study of

Academic fields

• Classification of Instructional Programs code (P2357) is available for academic discipline (Q11862829). The National Center for Education Statistics (Q1966994) publishes the Classification of Instructional Programs (Q5128393) at CIP user site. We now have a property for CIP codes, and we can adopt the US taxonomy as one possible organization of academic disciplines.
• is the study of (P2578) and studied in (P2579)

Use of Wikidata in coursework

• See Wikidata:Wikidata curricula and the associated list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework

WikiProject members

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