Wikidata:WikiProject Citizen Science/Curate

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The initial scope of this Wikiproject is focused on curating:

1. The citizen science literature corpus
2. citizen science projects
3. citizen science platforms
4. organizations
5. technologies (hosting of a project ie specialized software, used in conducting a project activities, supporting a project)
6. conferences with citizen science sessions or stated theme or topic
7. datasets and outputs generated by citizen science activities
8. Authors and notable figures of citizen science (authors of papers, authors of datasets, notable figures following Wikidata notability guide and living persons guide)
9. Datasets identified to be of value

Items and Descriptions

Properties: maintained by WikiProject (P6104) = Wikiproject Citizen Science (Q83547937) on Q's affiliated with this project.

 Info You can use the AutoEdit tool to quickly add label and description on WikiProject Citizen Science in many languages.

Main items

• citizen science (Q1093434) - discuss if the subclass taxonomy is correct for the this project's use case or if a new "citizen science" Q should be created to describe the type of citizen science following scientific literature classifications.
• citizen science project (Q24577212)
• citizen science platform - Q to be proposed after description and discussion
• Example project: EyeWire (Q640043)
• European Citizen Science Association (Q56068260)
• Citizen Science Association (Q59291891)
• Australian Citizen Science Association (Q59292017)

Other items

• WikiProject Biodiversity (Q60006372)
• Open Citizen Science (Q66771716)

Types of items

• properties are currently being discussed - not ready for scaled use **

Citizen Science Project

Description and identification: Listed in the PPSR Data Exchange databases, other?

Common Statements -- in progress

• instance of (P31) = Q24577212
• part of (P361) = Q of the citizen science platform that hosts a project

Example items

Citizen Science Platforms

Common Statements -- in progress

• instance of (P31) - Q to be proposed after description and discussion
• logo image (P154) - official logo
• official website (P856) - platform specific homepage
• official blog URL (P1581) - choose the page that
• source code repository URL (P1324) - where can the code be found = url
• developer (P178) - person or organization
• commissioned by (P88) - use if the development was requested by law or other authority in a public context
• sponsor (P859) - for financial sponsors or development time

Example items

• PARSEC (Q122587878)
• AmazonFACE (Q118147006)
• CyVerse (Q122585695)
• Lilly Center for Lakes & Streams (Q122819385)
• Lead Innovation Team (Q122820724)
• CACAO (Q650061)
• University of Virginia Arctic Research Center (Q118131415)
• Our Soil (Q120752086)
• Alianza Coachella Valley (Q122830877)
• Open Environmental Data Project (Q118150388)
• The HDF Group (Q106509427)
• HDF5 (Q61080677)

Bioblitz BioBlitz (Q2904016)

For discussion:

• How to classify a Bioblitz: an event, project, or other. See talk page.

Citizen Science Organizations

For base description see WikiProject Organizations extend with:

• TODO add list of properties to link to citizen science.