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Wikidata Visiting Scholar

As the National Library of Wales' Wikidata Visiting Scholar I have worked on the following projects:

• Welsh Landscape Collection
  • Prints that were published in books or other collections.
  • Artists, engravers and publishers associated with the prints.
    • Dynamic list of engravers and artists.
  • Welsh Landscape Collection in Europeana.
• Welsh Landscape Collection as a dynamic list.
• Count of artists, engravers and publishers associated with the Welsh Landscape Collection.
• Map with lines linking each print's main subject location and place of publication.

• Geoshapes of buildings depicted in the Welsh Landscape Collection with associated prints.
• Welsh book trade
• Welsh Journals
• Welsh Newspapers Online
• Graph showing place of publication (in red) for titles in the Welsh Journals and Welsh Newspapers Online collections.
• List of Welsh journals and newspapers with place of publication, publisher and date of first issue.

Welsh literature project

• Count of items created.
• Count of property claims.
• Count of statements per work.
• Works and editions --- Count of works and editions.
• Ready for QS - works without reciprocal has edition or translation (P747) link to edition.
• Authors to create - count of items for author name string (P2093).
• Data to create work for an edition.
• Labels/titles to correct.

Citations, coverage in articles, blogs and presentations, awards received etc

• Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar, National Library of Wales blog post by Jason Evans.
• Spotlight: Wikidata Visiting Scholar. The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/November-December2016.
• The Power of Open Data, RCAHMW Digital Past Blog, 21 December 2016.
• Case study: The National Library of Wales, chapter from Gill Hamilton and Fred Saunderson (2017) Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage. London: Facet Publishing, pp. 126-132.
• Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage, Oxford University Museums Partnership blog post by Martin Poulter, 19 January 2017.
• Resource discovery and Wikidata, Bodleian Libraries blog post by Martin Poulter, 21 June 2017.
• Trends in Linked Open Data, KCL King's Digital Lab blog post by Samantha Callaghan, 25 July 2017.
• Honourable Mention at the UK Wikimedian of the Year 2017 awards.
• Congratulations to our Wikimedians Of The Year!, Wikimedia UK blog post by John Lubbock, 1 August 2017.
• Wikidata Showcase at Repo Fringe 2017, presentation by Ewan McAndrew and Navino Evans.
• Wikidata loves GLAMs, WikidataCon 2017 presentation by Jason Evans.
• Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas and Lydia Pintscher. Published (2018) in "Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge" (pp. 143-158). Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
• Bringing Wikimedians into the Conversation at Libraries/Wikipedia Visiting Scholars, part of a book chapter by Alex Stinson and Jason Evans. Published (2018) in "Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge". Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
• Wikidata in GLAMs, How and why, EuropeanaTech Conference 2018 presentation by Jason Evans.
• Celtic Knot 2018 - How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, Wikimedia UK blog post by Delphine Dallison, 1 August 2018.
• Celtic Knot 2018: Preserving endangered languages with Wikipedia, SLIC blog post by Delphine Dallison, 13 July 2018.
• Celtic Knot : la conférence Wikipédia autour des langues, Wikimedia France blog post by Nicolas Vigneron, 20 July 2018.
• Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata, my guest post for the National Library of Wales blog republished in OpenMethods, with an introduction by Klaus Thoden, 1 August 2018.
• Wikipedia and Libraries (Q57418070), article by John Lubbock. Published in Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, 26 August 2018.
• And They Were There-Reports of Meetings — WikiCite 2018 and 38th Annual Charleston Conference, report by Laura Soito (Q38360700). Against the Grain, 31 (1), 12 April 2019.

• Robustifying Scholia: paving the way for knowledge discovery and research assessment through Wikidata (Q63433973), grant proposal by Lane Rasberry, Egon L. Willighagen, Finn Årup Nielsen, Daniel Mietchen. Published in Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO), 02 May 2019.
• IFLA releases 6 videos on Wikidata and Wikibase in Libraries, IFLA News, 24 September 2020.
• OpenUK Awards First Edition, 2020. Open Data award for the National Library of Wales, 20 October 2020.

Academic publishing / Open Access

• Relevant Properties

• Count of statements. Wikidata property related to research (Q80840868): List of properties. --- Scholarly works.

• Conferences

• Conference series TABernacle. --- Event TABernacle. --- Proceedings series TABernacle. --- Proceedings TABernacle. --- Journal items that are potential conference proceeding series: Query; Petscan. --- Search for proceedings. --- Count of items in results from a search for proceedings by work published in. --- Items published in or part of a series. --- Items with DBLP Publication ID. --- Conference papers with DBLP Publication ID.

• Occupation is subclass of researcher (Q1650915)

• Items per occupation (count). ORCID and occupation is subclass of researcher (Q1650915): Total with ORCID (count). --- Items with ORCID per occupation (count).

• Property claims of items with ORCID iD (P496)

• Has employer (P108): WikibaseItem (count). --- ExternalId (count).
• Has educated at (P69): ExternalId (count).
• Count of statements and external identifiers: Items with ORCID checksum 0xx. --- With rank. --- For a specific item by QID. --- Showing whether item has employer or educated at claims.

• ROR ID (P6782)

• ROR IDs in Wikidata (count). --- ROR tree.
• Count of property claims: All property types. --- WikibaseItem. --- ExternalId.
• Mapping of Wikidata to ROR and other PIDs.
• ROR IDs per country (geoshapes).
• Dissolved organisations with active ROR ID.

• Research papers by authors employed by institutions in the UK.

• Query to search for a string in the label of papers by authors employed by UK institutions.
• Co-author affiliation and country.

• University of Leeds research.

• Open Access articles. --- Authors. --- Author string (count).
• Leeds thesis. --- Thesis in WREO. --- Supervisor-student graph.
• Geoshape layers: Count of articles per faculty --- Staff by faculty.

• Org structure with affiliated researchers (graph). --- With colour. --- Employees. --- With publications.

Maintenance queries

• ORCID iD (P496)

• All items with ORCID and English label.
• Items with more than 1 ORCID.
• No employer. --- Employer validation checks. --- Format errors.
• Educated at statements with references. --- Employer statements with references.
• Education greater than ten years duration. --- Employment with two or more start dates. --- Employer statement.
• ORCID ID and ORCID reference mismatches: Employer claims. --- Educated at claims
• Count of properties per datatype for an individual.
• Count of papers per author.

• Ringgold ID (P3500)

• Ringgold ID claim with rank.

• SciGraph (Q65509402)

• Add Scigraph exact match. --- Scigraph to add by publisher (BMC).
• Scigraph exact match, no Dimensions ID. --- Scigraph exact match errors.

• Encoding or formatting errors

• Title string errors. --- Author name string errors.
• Searches for <sup>, <sub>, <i> in labels.

Exeter stuff

• Located within 10km of Exeter, no instance of (P31) statement.
• Items without images near Whimple (box).
• Items without images within 5km radius of object.
• Items without images in Devon.
• Items in Exeter with a missing OSM relationship.
• OSM entities located in Exeter with QID tag.

• Streets in Exeter.

• No Freebase or Google Knowledge Graph ID.

• No Freebase or Google Knowledge Graph ID (in Devon).

• Maintenance query located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) = Exeter (Q134672).

• Federated query - geoshapes from ONS.

• OSM geoshapes for civil parishes in East Devon .

• Ships built in Topsham.

• With voyages.

• Buildings in Topsham

• Topsham people.

• Railway stations directly or indirectly connected to Topsham Station.

• UK stations only.

• University of Exeter departments. --- Parts of the University of Exeter.

• Nearest pub to current location.

SPARQL queries

• Wikidata

• Wikidata currently contains 113,719,578 items. It has been edited 2,240,359,694 times since the project launch. There are currently 23,743 active users.
• Count of total items in Wikidata.
• Triples in Wikidata. Datatypes.
• Properties in Wikidata. Property classification. Count of properties for class. Count of external identifier properties.

• Geoshapes

• Countries of the world. World population. Population with flags.
• Countries of Europe. Europe with population as coloured layers.
• Local authority areas of England geoshapes.

• Map layers

• Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums of the world.
• Medieval churches with century of construction.
• Map of places in the UK within horizontial and vertical bands defined by latitude and longitude ranges.

• Libraries

• Map of UK public libraries by local authority. More efficient. UK & Ireland.
• Map of public libraries in the UK & Ireland with clustering.
• Public libraries in Wales. Libraries in Wales by type.
• Count of public libraries per district - UK (geoshapes).
• Library closures in the UK since 2000.
• Map of libraries and library buildings in the UK. Listed library buildings in the UK.
• Leeds City Libraries with links to Google Knowledge Panel in different languages.
• Library systems in California.
• Map of libraries in the Netherlands. Map of public libraries in the Netherlands.

• Languages

• Langauges in Wikidata.
• Number of language labels per country.
• Welsh speakers geoshapes.
• Welsh-medium schools.
• Akademi Kernewek Place Names.

Structure Data on Commons / Commons Query Service

• Photos from Commons that are used in P18 claims on Wikidata. Count of images. Count of items.
• Map of photos taken by Sic19.
• Wikidata items within 2.5km of Topsham with an image created before 2018.
• Wikidata items located in the historic county of Devon with an image created before 2013.
• Images of listed buildings with metadata.
• Wikitext for images in a category.
• Class of depicts values for images in the WLM UK 2023 category.
• Count of WLM UK photos 2018-2024 by subject depicted.
• Map showing the point of view of WLM UK photos 2020-2024.
• Map showing the location of subjects depicted in WLM UK photos 2018-2024.
• Images without SDC depicts claim in WLM UK 2023 category.
• Subjects depicted in WLM UK photos 2018-2024 with Commons category and depicts subject image search links.

Structured Data on Commons searches

• Search for files in Images from Wiki Loves Monuments in Wales category without SDC P180 depicts claim.
• Images of listed buildings in Wales with Wikidata QID and without SDC P180 depicts claim.
• Search for files in Images from Wiki Loves Monuments in England category without SDC P180 depicts claim.
• Search for files in Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in the United Kingdom category without SDC P180 depicts claim.
• Files in Listed buildings in England missing SDC depicts category with Wikidata QID.
• Files in Listed buildings in England with known IDs category with Wikidata QID and without SDC P180 depicts claim.
• Files in Images from Wiki Loves Monuments missing SDC depicts category with Listed building Scotland template.

Listed buildings

• Lookup any British listed building by ID.
• British listed buildings without an image and with a Commons category.
• Items with multiple listed building IDs: HES ID --- Cadw ID --- NHLE ID.
• Label formatting issues: Acronym requires capitalisation --- Potential unnecessary use of uppercase --- Missing space after comma --- Unnecessary initial capitalisation --- Potential incomplete label.
• All items with: NHLE ID --- HES ID --- Canmore ID --- CADW ID --- NIEA ID .
• Entries in the Northern Ireland Buildings Database a novalue heritage designation claim.
• List of listed buildings in Scotland with component listing.
• Thatched buildings.
• Canal bridges in England. --- Map of canals in the UK. --- Map of items in the UK with 'canal' in label but no crosses (P177), carries (P2505) or located in or next to body of water (P206) claim ; in TABernacle.
• Items with National Heritage List for England number (P1216) but without instance of (P31) claim. --- Items with National Heritage List for England number (P1216), Cadw Building ID (P1459) or Historic Environment Scotland ID (P709) but without instance of (P31) claim.
• Listed buildings in England without heritage designation start date and/or OS gridref. --- Statement ID and reference hash.
• Churches in the UK within 0.05km of another church. --- Bridges in the UK within 0.05km of another bridge.
• Pubs within 0.5km of point.
• Post boxes in the UK.
• Thatched buildings in the UK with and without images. Clustered map.
• Map of thatched buildings in Devon per civil parish . Count of thatched buildings in Devon per civil parish with OSM polygons . Federated query from Devonshire Wikibase Cloud to retrieve images frpm Wikidata - map view. Image grid view.
• Listed buildings in Devon.

SPARQL queries for ongoing tasks

• Books:

• Books with sitelink to Welsh Wikipedia.
• Books printed before 1801 (add ESTC numbers).
• Manuscripts.

• Libraries:

• Map of libraries and library buildings in the UK without operator (P137) statement.
• Libraries and other institutions with ISIL (P791), RCR number (P4645) and UK Parliament thesaurus ID (P4527) identifier properties.
• Libraries without instance of (P31) claim statement.
• GLAMs in Albania map and Total GLAMs per county in Wikidata.

• Identifiers

• Items with Art UK venue ID (P1602) but without instance of (P31) statement.
• No TOID.

• Images

• Items without image (P18) or coat of arms image (P94) but with a Commons category (P373).
• Places without an image within 5km of a location. Link to NHLE constructed from P1216 value.
• Files on Commons with sitelinks PetScan

• Boxing

• Boxing matches.

Dynamic Wikidata Lists

• Welsh Landscape Collection (faceted by entity depicted).
• Engravers and artists in the Welsh Landscape Collection.
• 1933 book burning locations.
• Libraries damaged during World War II.
• Libraries and library buildings (faceted by country).
• Post boxes in the UK.
• Archives at Leeds University Library.
• List of libraries and librarians in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

GeoShapes

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