Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Biocuration 2016

Public engagement with data

Map of geolocated Wikidata items

Semantifying restaurant menues

Curator's mindset

How can we use structured information to identify knowledge gaps?

About

This page is part of the Workshop WS6: Wikidata as a platform for biocuration at the Biocuration 2016 conference in Geneva (Q71) on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (see also tinyurl.com/biocuration-wikidata or https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lDty0ZwwzJd4MoJr7NX7iWZthP0bSPal3GcZaaW3YiM/edit# )

Venue

The conference venue is Campus Biotech Geneva; 9, chemin des mines; CH-1202 Geneva. Within that building, the workshop takes place in the afternoon in Room H8.144-165.

Schedule

• Presentations
  • Overview "wikidata as a platform for biocuration"
  • Community organization
  • Hands-on

Things to do

• Listen to Wikidata
• Take a Wikidata tour
• Special:Nearby
• review existing Wikidata items
  • Wikidata:Showcase items
    • Douglas Adams (Q42)   
    • ethanol (Q153)   
    • Montblanc (Q761735)   
      • Try to find the item about the Montblanc near Geneva!
    • Varanus komodoensis (Q4504)   
    • Cactaceae (Q14560)   
    • Large Hadron Collider (Q40605)   
    • Biodiversity assessment of the fishes of Saba Bank atoll, Netherlands Antilles (Q15625490)   
    • The Night Watch (Q219831)   
  • Zika virus (Q202864)   
  • lac operon (Q311359)   
  • docking (Q403004)   
  • Zika fever (Q8071861)   
  • Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (Q1895685)   
  • 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic (Q21686043)   
  • Vienna RNA Package (Q21933168)   
  • Zika virus outbreak timeline (Q22921543)   
• review existing properties
  • e.g. Template:NIH properties
• add missing chromosomes to human genome (Q720988)   
• improve Neanderthal genome (Q23757062)   
• add main subject (P921) to items about scientific articles that do not have P921 set yet
  • e.g. Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData/Wikidata lists/Items about Zika virus or fever (mostly research articles)
    • see also the corresponding timeline
  • recent Zika papers from PubMed
• Create items about scientific papers (execution requires login)
• add main subject (P921) to new items about relevant data sources to create an index. e.g. of emerging Zika data like: http://andersen-lab.com/data/