Wikidata:Property proposal/National Science Foundation award

‎National Science Foundation award

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: National Science Foundation award (P11858) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for grants from the United States National Science Foundation (Q304878)
Represents	National Science Foundation award (Q28765596)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item
Example 1	NNA Track 1: Understanding the Changing Natural-Built Landscape in an Arctic Community: An integrated sensor network in Utqiagvik, Alaska (Q118121847) → 2022639 [1]
Example 2	Collaborative Research: Models for Network Evolution: A Study of Growth and Structure in the Wikipedia (Q119140646) → 0907439 [2]
Example 3	A Linguistic Ethnography of the Global Trade in Indigenous Plants (Q119141095) → 1325025 [3]
Source	https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/simpleSearch.jsp
Number of IDs in source	~3000 new awards in 2023. Perhaps that many every year for a 20 year period?
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320)
Formatter URL	https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=$1
Robot and gadget jobs	bots could connect this property to both institutional and human award recipients and WikiCite-indexed papers which credit award sponsorship;

Motivation

USAspending (Q110644040), the United States government database, reports that for 2023, the United States government agency National Science Foundation will award US$1.89 billion in 9,270 awards, of which 3621 are new. This database probably has grants data for the past 20 years and will continue to publish data at this scale indefinitely. If we wanted 20 years of data, then there may be about 3600 * 20 = 72,000 award records. Many of these get updates which I think in Wikidata can go into the original record, but I am unsure of how the original database sorts these.

Indexing this would be useful for meta:WikiCite, as frequently, research papers which WikiCite indexes give thanks for particular awards which we could connect here in Wikidata. Also right now, there is an organization called the Open Research Funders Group (Q45759536) which has convened most major United States-based foundations to standardize the metadata of their grants for indexing in Crossref (Q5188229). That standardization is looking to these NSF records for modeling inspiration because NSF has so many large awards. This kind of standardization is a trend which many people are reviewing now to watch where the money goes and how. Indexing these records in Wikidata would connect with what we already have and make us better prepared for the scrutiny of this data which is growing elsewhere. Bluerasberry (talk) 19:10, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

• As proposer Bluerasberry (talk) 19:09, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support:Fpa1981 (talk) 14:02, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
  Reasons: It seems like properties that can be used to represent or even organise funds supporting research projects would facilitate the better assessment of the outcomes through Wikidata items. In addition, the research outcomes may play some roles in calculations of ROI or alternative measurement systems. That seems to be very much the case in which we can benefit from the inclusion of this property.

•  Support - also Fpa1981 did you mean to say something or support/oppose here? ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:30, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks. I have just stated a few reasons to support such property. Fpa1981 (talk) 14:04, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

• @Bluerasberry, Fpa1981, ArthurPSmith: Created as National Science Foundation award (P11858) TiagoLubiana (talk) 18:46, 1 July 2023 (UTC)