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Hi I'm Ambrosia10, otherwise known as Siobhan Leachman. I tend to curate Wikidata manually, although I do use various tools for bulk editing such as the author disambiguator tool, quickstatements and OpenRefine. I particularly enjoy working on New Zealand or biodiversity related content and am keen to increase the coverage in Wikidata of women in science and New Zealand endemic species. However I'm omnivorous and contribute to many projects unrelated to my favourite topics. I have participated in and conducted training sessions and workshops with museum, herbaria and educational professionals focusing in on botanists and other such scientific collectors and contributors to biodiversity knowledge. I'm also keen in encouraging the reuse of Wikidata QIDs and associated data, particularly by natural history institutions, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and by the website Bionomia. Further information on me and my Wikiverse contributions can be found on my ORCID.

Work currently being undertaken (December 2024)

Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024

I'm a co-organiser of a group of Wikimedians intending to run a Wikidata workshop and undertake further outreach at the International Botanical Congress. See the WikiProject page for further information. Most of the objectives of this project have been completed. However our poster was so successful that we have been invited by the Annals of Botany journal to write an article how the use of Wikidata can be beneficial for the botany community. This work will require the extension of our project for another 6 months.

Women Genera project

I'm working on a project to get all the flowering plant genera named after women in to Wikidata and linked to the Wikidata items for the women in order to analyse the data and to participate in and co-author a scientific publication on this analysis. We recently published on this project see Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women. We are now drafting other paper analysing this dataset.

Wikidata WikiProject Project Research Expeditions

I'm also part of a collaboration of biodiversity informatics professionals working to increase the coverage of and the linking to and from scientific expeditions in Wikidata. See the WikiProject Research Expeditions. We will be collaborating to ensure the schema recommended to be used for scientific expeditions in Wikidata is consistent and covers all appropriate examples of scientific expeditions and will likely to hold events to train and encourage natural history GLAM folk to add scientific expeditions to Wikidata. As part of this work I applied to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to establish a three month pilot project at Te Papa to test the proposed schema, engage more widely with Te Papa staff and the general public on research expedition events and produce a project report intended to assist others to implement such projects. See above for more details on the WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions project. Members of the WikiProject Research Expeditions have also been instrumental in the creation of a TDWG Modelling research expeditions task group.

Wikidata:WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions

The residency at Te Papa and the trialling of the Wikidata research expeditions schema was completed in the 26th of May 2024. On June 4th we held a Te Papa staff Wikipedia editathon expanding Wikipedia articles on research expeditions and related content. A public event has been undertaken on July the 13th.

I received a funding grant from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to undertake a pilot project with New Zealands National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa to test out the proposed research expedition schema created by Wikidata:WikiProject_Research_expeditions. For more information on the project see the project page for Wikidata:WikiProject_Te_Papa_Research_Expeditions. The aim of this project is to trial the current research expeditions schema proposed by the Wikidata WikiProject Research Expeditions by creating or enriching Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff while employed at the museum.

The intention is to ensure these research expedition items are, where possible, richly interlinked with data such as the participants, the location information, and institutions that house objects collected during the expedition and publications, archives and artworks generated during or as a result of the expedition. Any issues raised during this project will be discussed with both interested staff at Te Papa as well as WikiProject Research Expedition participants and the wider Wikidata and Biodiversity community. These discussions will aim to improve the schema as well as elicit recommendations for best practice when implementing the schema. The plan is to resolve as many issues as possible prior to the WikiProject and the TDWG Research Expeditions working group publishing recommendations and/or a Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG data standard guiding other institutions when undertaking similar Wiki work. See the discussion page of the WikiProject Research Expeditions for examples of issues that are currently under debate. The outcomes of Te Papa WikiProject Research Expeditions will in this way assist with the generation of best practice documentation anticipated to be generated by the TDWG Research Expeditions Working Group. This pilot project will also provide opportunities to engage with the digital access, natural history, ethnology, library and archives staff at Te Papa on this work and the potential for it to be of benefit to Te Papa.

If other editors want to discuss this project or have any concerns please contact me on my talk page as I would be extremely happy to discuss this project and the editing being undertaken while engaged with this project.

A final report for this project has been produced and can be found here.

New Zealand Thesis project

I'm also working on a project in conjunction with other New Zealand Wikidata editors to import and enrich a dataset of all publicly available New Zealand theses into Wikidata. This includes working on the mix'n'match dataset for the NZThesisProject. See NZ Thesis Project. See this presentation for further information.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

I am actively involved in the WikiProject Biodiversity Heritage Library. I am the current chair (from 23 January 2024 onwards) of the BHL Wiki working group. I am an invited guest and attend the BHL cataloguing task force meetings where I assist with any Wikidata queries they may have.

Mix'n'match

I'm currently working on the BHL creator identifier, the Harvard Index of Botanists, and the Entomology mix'n'match datasets. I have been active in developing the "scientific collector" schema and follow this when adding data for botanical, entomological, mammal etc collectors. See this Cradle tool schema for scientific collectors. I have previously met with data folk at the National Library of New Zealand and am assisting them by working on the Alexander Turnbull datasets currently in Mix'n'match.

Other Wikidata work

I'm working on New Zealand species items, particularly NZ endemic moths, expanding and updating new taxonomic treatments and adding first descriptions as well as images to Wikidata. See this item for the data model I'm currently using for these items.

I've been working on datasets in https://nztcs.org.nz/. This will be a work in progress as these reports come out regularly and will need updating. Also the taxonomy used in these reports may differ from Wikidata items and as a result ingests of this data may miss particular species.

I'm working on New Zealand's National Museum Te Papa's data on botanical collectors, attempting to disambiguate them, add them to Wikidata and then, if possible, find their ORCID or their death date and add them to Bionomia Track to link specimens they've identified or collected and then add their Bionomia identifier back into Wikidata.

I'm working on the biodiversity knowledge graph, in particular although not exclusively, on collectors of scientific specimens and authors of scientific papers. I'm also a keen participant in the WikiProject Biodiversity. As part of this I'm working through the Biodiversity Heritage Library dataset in Mix'n'Match to assist with the linking of metadata within that digital library and Wikidata. Adding images to Wikicommons and linking them to Wikidata via their creators - with an emphasis on women scientific illustrators. For example see this for NZ women artists. I intend also work on making sure the women in this https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011940858 publication are in Wikidata.

Projects "to do"

Women scientific illustrators in my BHL spreadsheet. Go into items they've worked on, make sure the work in Wikidata, add them to the work data and the work data to their item. Document workflow so Michelle can also work on this. Draft currently problem with libraries, see this and this, with cataloguing and description issues, show how Wikidata/WikiCommons and Wikipedia can be the solution. This presentation from 26min sets up the issue. Look at it through the lens of women illustrators.

Keen to do an OpenRefine project to get all Canterbury Museum Records articles into Wikidata. Will have to be a manual effort as no DOIs, no single article urls (only urls for the whole volumes). Similar is needed for the New Zealand entomology society journal and newsletters as well as New Zealand regional botanical society newsletters. This is important as they all contain vital information on NZ biodiversity.

Add the internet archive wayback machine links for the NZ Entomological Society publications.

New Zealand protected areas - set up schema and model item. See this resource and the items for Bench Island and Bench island nature reserve.

Queries

My SPARQL Query page can be found here.

Wikidata Knowledge Grapher

https://w.wiki/4MVo New Zealand endemic moths
https://w.wiki/5d4 Images of endemic species of New Zealand
https://w.wiki/6k$ NZ Women artists
https://w.wiki/BLz New Zealand museums
https://w.wiki/Bsr New Zealand artists whose work will be in New Zealand public domain in 2020
https://w.wiki/Bsv Leaves of Grass book and it's editions
https://w.wiki/DLg Women scientific illustrators
https://w.wiki/46dC Female botanists and botanical collectors born<1900, sorted by number of sitelinks, with some related info
https://w.wiki/jJK All works by an artist and what they depict, in graph form - Charles Heaphy
https://w.wiki/kpj Paintings of the Suter Art Gallery
https://w.wiki/ntQ Places depicted in the paintings in the Sarjeant Gallery
https://w.wiki/ojS Bat species with optional images
https://w.wiki/$tE Marine reserve legislation
https://w.wiki/3Kue Genera named after women
https://w.wiki/4GcK Women scientists who have an english wikipedia article but not a Swedish article. Great for editathons.
https://w.wiki/4Jyg Needs sorting out!
https://w.wiki/44qA bubble diagram of cumulative page views of articles for members of the Czech Parliament, split by party
https://w.wiki/ojV cemetery query
https://w.wiki/5mec type localities of taxons endemic to New Zealand shown on a map
https://w.wiki/5$GP shows wikipedia article links!
https://w.wiki/Aczp affiliations for natural history institution. See this discussion around the creation of this query.

Queries to work on

https://w.wiki/gvY - Year of taxon publication (P574) is inconsistent with the date of birth or death of the taxon author (P405) This data needs sorting out! But see this discussion!. See this example of posthumous property.
https://w.wiki/43Lc - search for properties used for research expeditions
Mass Page views
Knowledge grapher tool!

WikiProject Biodiversity

Great documentation for adding collectors to Wikidata
My iNaturalist "missing" species articles https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10/missing_inaturalist_articles.
Add species missing Wikipedia articles here.
"Main subject" property in scholarly article - if in title use reference "based on heuristic" (P887) then inferred from title (Q69652283 If based on abstract use inferred from abstract Q75484171.
"Main subject" property - tool that helps automate this process for inferred from title examples.
Good example of "main subject" qualifiers for biodiversity paper.
Botanical collectors See this item for great qualifiers for the statement botanical collector.
Great video on how to use Zotero to help import articles to Wikidata - use for Department of Conservation publications
Guidelines for adding references for taxonomic names
Great list of other items for range/location statements can be found in this item.
Open Refine has a Bionomia end point! https://api.bionomia.net/reconcile
Feedback to Catalogue of Life Github repository to improve GBIF backbone.
Donald Hobern's amazing website.
Botany example for ex.
Rod Page's Alec tool and BHL2Wiki tool
The P6833 property is useful if the scholarly article has HTML markup

#HiddenWomen Project for BiCIKL_H2020

I participated in the BiCIKL 2020 hackathon and contributed to the Hidden Women project there.

Interesting way of structuring data to show the general area a botanist collected specimens from see this

Notes to self

GOOD EXAMPLE FOR PRESENTATIONS!: NAME AUTHORITY George Eiby
For illustrators contributing to work see P3919 - contributed to published work
For example of newspaper reference see Douglas Noël Adams entry.
For model on how to cite scientific paper see this.
See lion [1] for a model to add more detailed data to particular species in Wikidata.
See this for basionym use and this for its inverse
See this for an example of how to deal with subspecies in Wikidata.
See [2] for discussion on how to deal with books split into volumes.
See Q60572861 as an example for extra info regarding married and birth names.
See this for things to try out!
See this (No. 42) [3] discussion started by Quentin re scientific names
See this toolcalled cradle to help manually create wikidata items.
See this old tool SourceMD.
CiteQ template example of pushback
See this example of a misspelled taxon
JSTOR GLOBAL PLANTS identifier example
WIKIDATA workflow - most tools useful as a GLAM professional
Good example of item for wingspan

Sarjeant Gallery notes

See this as it's got some great queries.
TABernacle
See this and also the slides as great resources for GLAM roundtripping.

Examples of scientific articles

Try this one first.

Examples of scientific book properties

[8]

This tool is fabulous for adding works See Cradle tool TABernacle

Synonyms of species

Rod suggests "Regarding the perennial issue of taxa and taxon names I think it’s useful to think of Wikidata as following what databases such as the Catalogue of Life do: list every name, if name is accepted link name to parent taxon using P171, if name is not accepted (i. e., a synonym) link to accepted name using P1420. P171 – parent taxon P1420 – taxon synonym"

Refer to Wikidata:WikiProject Taxonomy/Tutorial page for more info.
see this Use "taxon synonym" and "synonym" "of"
synonym of current species
synonym, synonym, synonym all of current species
synonym
synonym of plant species
synonym example
taxon synonym - see how Andra does it here
example of basionym

Species item properties

SEE THIS and for more detail THIS from Rod Page explaining how to structure taxonomic literature citations in Wikidata.
SEE THIS from Rod Page - a tool using BHL DOIs to get documents into Wikidata!
original combination (P1403) Q13879041 see this]
publication in which this taxon name was established (P5326) See Q2006958 this item for statement and the use of it in a reference
taxon author citation (P6507)
Don't forget property P5304 type locality (biology) See Q21253786 as an example.
For NZ don't forget "invasive to (P5588)" - Not sure what reference here is appropriate. Obv Dept. of Conservation for NZ but worldwide?
For a model botany species see Q158695 and Q311747

See this for how to add in original description of species and making reference to BHL page id. Could also add BHL bibliographic id too?
See this example of how to model a type specimen.

Invasive Species

See this for examples of NZ invasive species.
See Invasive to P5588 Property

Copyright status

See this item Q1356297 or Q175036 as an example for Copyright status See this item Q27918954 as example for copyrighted artwork in NZ jurisdiction (ie 50yrs) See this item Q12418 as example of public domain 100 yrs See this item for Q28471337 as example of public domain 80 yrs

See this item Q1462485 as an example of an appropriately modelled copyright dispute.

See this as an example of how to deal with copyrighted material.

See this example of copyright owned by will recipient.

See this as an example of works out of copyright in NZ but in copyright in other jurisdictions.

Example of iNaturalist reference for source of image

Remember about host and especially parasite see Q10253316 and [9]

BHL work

See Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL

Notes to self

Example for BHL citation See this

See this as a model for BHL handwritten field books, particularly those that are in the Smithsonian Field Book Project. For scientific papers don't forget how important the "Main subject" property is - see for example this query

See Wikidata Property P6605 Plant Illustrations artist ID for when putting BHL illustrators into Wikidata.

See this for BHL women illustrators

See this for institutions needed to be added to Wikidata

See this document as it gives a great summary of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata.

Best practice for identifiers that have been merged by BHL is to deprecate the merged identifiers and use the reason for depreciation as Q67125514 "deprecated identifier value".

Slide that may help replicate Wikidata Wales images project

See this
Also check out "Wikidata:Projects" as they have very useful documentation!

Remember to write, record and DOCUMENT if you decide to self create a project!

Useful links

See this for example of double surname
See this for collaboration work
See this
Kākāpō schema
Don't forget "on focus list of wikimedia project" and then "American Women's History Initiative"
Example of double surname https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96209543 Preferred reasoning https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7452