Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI Virtual) 2021, 8thOctober, 2021

John Samuel

CPE Lyon

Creative Commons License

Outline

Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. Wikidata
  3. Modeling Queer Voices and Topics
  4. Conclusion and Future Works

Outline

1. Introduction

  1. Active Wikidata contributor
  2. Focus on Modeling Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata

2. Wikidata

Wikidata

3. Modeling Queer Voices and Topics

LGBT on Wikidata (Q17884)

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LGBT (Q17884): multilingual labels, descriptions and aliases

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Sex or Gender (P21)

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Personal pronoun (P6553)

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Personal pronoun (P6553)

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Usage of Personal pronouns

Reference: https://w.wiki/4ABd

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Usage of Personal pronoun 'they' (L371)

Reference: https://w.wiki/J3q

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Sexual Orientation (P91)

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pride parade (Q51404)

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LGBTI+ rights organization (Q6458277)

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LGBT chorus (Q1820625)

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LGBT film festival (Q62018250)

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LGBT community center (Q2945640)

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LGBTIQA+ bookshop (Q61696039)

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LGBT-related film (Q20442589)

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LGBT literature (Q10318944)

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LGBT+ Archives (Q61710689) and Magazines (Q61710689)

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Rainbow and Pride flags (Q7242811)

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LGBT+ Awareness days (Q61740765)

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LGBT+ rights (Q17625913)

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LGBTQIA+ rights activist (Q19509201)

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Sex or Gender (P21, Q48264)

Name Wikidata ID
intersex person Q104717073
non-binary Q724351
female Q6581072
male Q6581097
two-spirit Q301702
... ..

Complete list: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/Lists/Genders

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Sexual Orientation (P91, Q17888)

Name Wikidata ID
asexuality Q724351
bisexuality Q43200
heterosexuality Q1035954
homosexuality Q6636
pansexuality Q271534
... ..

Complete list: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/Lists/SexualOrientations

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External Identifiers

Identifier Usage count (as on October 3, 2021)
Homosaurus ID (P6417) 542
Represent Me ID (P6554) 694
LGBTFansDB character ID (P6780) 68
LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID (P8285) 247
500 Queer Scientists profile (P8243) 4
GSSO ID (P9827) 80
... ..

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Modeling Pride flags (Q7242811)

Property Value
instance of (P31) pride flag (Q7242811)
inception (P571) date/year
color (P462) one or colors (Wikidata ID)
designed by (P287) person or organization (Wikidata ID)
... ..

Reference: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/Models

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Modeling LGBTQIA+ rights activist (Q19509201)

Property Value
instance of (P31) human (Q5)
occupation (P106) LGBTQIA+ rights activist (Q19509201)
family name (P734) Wikidata ID
given name (P735) Wikidata ID
sex or gender (P21) Wikidata ID and references
sexual orientation (P21) Wikidata ID and references
personal pronoun (P6553) Wikidata lexeme ID and references
... ..

Reference: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/Models

4. Conclusion and Future Works

Conclusion

  1. Coverage of topics
    • LGBT+ history, Awareness days/months
    • Social media hashtags
    • ...
  2. Notability
  3. Always incomplete
  4. Role of external identifiers

4. Conclusion and Future Works

Ongoing and Future Works

  1. Data quality
  2. Entity Schemas
  3. DCMI: DC Tabular Application Profiles (DC TAP)
  4. Role of external identifiers

4. Conclusion and Future Works

How to Contribute?

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBT_studies
  3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT%2B/Portal

Credits

References

Images

Thank you

Questions?