Submissions:2022/Data Modeling the Person
This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2022.
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:
E-mail address:
- lloyd_kevin_sy
alumni.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