Submissions:2018/Does Wikidata Need an Ontological Overhaul?

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Title

Does Wikidata Need an Ontological Overhaul?

Theme (optional)

Tech & Tools

Academic Peer Review option

No

Type of submission

presentation

Author

Sam Smith

E-mail address

smsmith508@aol.com

Wikimedia username

SammyWiki

Affiliation(s) (optional)

DataSmith, LLC

Abstract

This presentation asserts that Wikidata can benefit from the use of an enhanced overall ontology. The informal ontology now employed is inconsistent. The presentation follows up on a presentation given at the North American pre-conference at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal (“A Macro-Micro Biological Tour of Wikidata” that compared Wikidata ontological terms for microbiological organisms and humans), and incorporates a presentation given to biomedical ontology experts last spring in Shanghai, in which an ontology for occupations was proposed for use in wikis that is consistent with current biomedical ontologies. In this presentation, the occupation ontology developed will be used to contrast the way historical persons are characterized in Wikidata as to occupation using current terminology, versus using the proposed, consistent, occupation ontology.

Length of presentation

20 minutes

Special requests

May I request a spot any time Saturday October 20 (will be doing Detroit Half-Marathon on Sunday the 21st)

Preferred room size

10

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

The same theme of Wikidata ontology but different content and subject matter: Wikimania 2017; a non-Wiki medical bioinformatics conference in Shanghai, Biocuration 2018 by my colleague Dr. Yongqun He of University of Michigan.

If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?

Yes

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

Tentatively, yes.

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