User:Mcarondiotte/My Academic Family Tree

Building my Academic Family Tree

In this project, I try to build my academic family tree, starting from myself and my advisor. For each researcher I find, I will try to find all their affiliations and students. I will also try to create a Wikidata item for their master's thesis and doctoral dissertation.

Data Models

• Data model for researchers
  • example: Yoshua Bengio (Q3572699)
• Data model for theses and dissertations: WikiProject Source MetaData (Theses and dissertations)
  • example: Properties of expanding universes (Q42307084) (by Stephen Hawking)
  • I will try to add the main subjects of the works in main subject (P921)

SPARQL Requests

Retrieve Data for Each Researcher by Climbing the Advisor/Student Relations

SELECT ?advisor ?advisorLabel ?student ?studentLabel ?employer ?employerLabel WHERE {
  wd:Q85622969 wdt:P184+ ?advisor .
  ?advisor wdt:P185 ?student .
  OPTIONAL { ?advisor wdt:P108 ?employer }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
}

Try it!

Tree Visualization

#defaultView:Graph
SELECT ?advisor ?advisorLabel ?student ?studentLabel WHERE {
  wd:Q85622969 wdt:P184+ ?advisor .
  ?advisor wdt:P185 ?student .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
}

Try it!

We can also visualize the tree a little bit more nicely with Entitree. However, to have the full tree, we need to start by the oldest advisor and select the doctoral student (P185) property (or else, we have only one direct line).

My academic family tree on Entitree

Resources

To locate the researchers that are part of our academic family tree, their advisor, affiliation, thesis and scolarity information, we can use the following resources:

• Wikidata to find items already in the database
• The Academic Family Tree
• Les bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal to find theses and dissertations from the UdeM
• Search Theses Canada by Library and Archives Canada to find Canadian theses
• Theses.fr to find French theses for which the researcher might have acted as a jury member