This repository contains the code and figures that are the main output of the Short Term Scientific Mission I did with Rod Page at the University of Glasgow in the context of the COST Mobilise action. Some working documents can still be found at https://github.com/matdillen/STSM-mobilise
collectormatching.Rmd contains the SPARQL queries, processing of results and a script that attempts automated matching of collector names and dates to these Wikidata items.
blh.R tries to apply the same approach (more or less) to the most frequent names available in Bloodhound (https://bloodhound-tracker.net/).
plotids.R makes use of GraphViz to plot overlap of different identifiers for the found items in Wikidata. Some example plots can be found in the plots folder.
properties.R requests information from the Wikidata REST API for items or properties in batches of 50. It can provide info on labels, claims, references and more.
publications.R sets up a large number of SPARQL queries to retrieve publication dates from articles authored by the Wikidata persons retrieved with queries in collectormatching.Rmd.
As part of this work, a series of SPARQL queries was performed in early October 2019 to list all possible Wikidata properties present in the set of Wikidata person records assembled with the SPARQL queries from collectormatching.Rmd and connected to specimen records from MeiseBG using the matching process of that R script. All properties are listed in data/wikidataids.tsv along with their frequency. The same list can still be found in a google sheet here.
A more detailed description of this work can be found in the 5.4 deliverable report from the DiSSCo Prepare project. Alternate link.