Submissions:2022/Data Modeling the Person

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2022.

Etherpad

Title:

Data Modeling the Person

Theme:

Friday Lightning Talk Day

Type of session:

Lightning Talk

Abstract:

WikiProject Biography (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biography/Model) seeks to discuss social and ethical issues concerning the biographies of people on Wikipedia and Wikidata. As part of the WikiProject, our team created a data model capturing the various "essential" qualities of human beings.

This presentation discusses the model we created. We go over which properties were chosen, how that process occurred, and, especially, how we picked "examples" for each property, a process fraught with the question of how to achieve representation within data modeling. Specifically, we made a marked effort to diversify the examples used—on the grounds of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, etc. This session talks about the importance of diversifying data models and the problems with doing so.

Academic Peer Review option:

Author name:

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

E-mail address:

lloyd_kevin_syalumni.brown.edu

Wikimedia username:

HappyBear5000

Affiliated organization(s):

University of Virginia

Estimated time:

6 minutes

Special requests:

slides?

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:

No

If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)

Yes