Wikidata for Research is a private online workshop for participants in the SEEKCommons socio-environmental knowledge commons project. The event includes an introduction to Wikidata, an explanation of Wikidata features which can improve research practices, and an invitation for each participant to edit Wikidata to develop metadata for research resources.
Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) project is dedicated to the investigation and promotion of open technologies in socio-environmental research. The project was made possible by a National Science Foundation FAIR-OS RCN grant (award #2226425).
Preparation
Before the workshop, please create a
Wikimedia account. You quit reading and skip all the next steps if you at least just do that! Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other related wiki platforms all use the same login credentials.
Identify any open "research resource" that you like and wish to share in Wikidata. The best resource to share is one that you can imagine other people reusing. It does not have to be your own resource. Examples of open resources include the following:
a dataset
software
a conference, in the context of it as a knowledge source
a device
a reusable research method
a paper, report, or book
At the time of the workshop, login to your wiki account.
This is complete documentation for the workshop exercise.
While the workshop includes live instructions, feel free to follow these instructions during the workshop as a complement or alternative.
Goal: create a Wikidata item for a "research resource". The Wikidata item will contain metadata which describes that resource.
Why this matters: When documenting research it is useful to list what resources one used to accomplish it. For many reasons, registering the resource in a database, then citing the entry of that resource in the database, is the easiest way to concisely identify a resource in documentation.
Identify a resource which you want to register in Wikidata