Missing and imprecise biographic data

[monirbounadi]

@salgo60 introduced me to this project. Given my work on late 1800s Swedish politics, I'm intrigued by the biographical data of MPs from Tvåkammarriksdagen 1867-1971. This data can help match MPs to historical registers. Ideally, we'd have comprehensive birth dates and places for each MP, with birthplaces detailed to the parish or congregational level per Swedish censuses.

I assessed Wikidata MPs against this criteria. I've updated several entries: previously, some only had birth years, and around 180 lacked birth locations. I've fixed the former and added locations for 80 MPs, leaving about 100 incomplete. While I often didn't cite sources, I always used reliable tertiary ones. Sometimes, I directly referenced Swedish household examination records.

However, I've noticed some MPs with vague birth or death locations, like "Lund" or "Stockholm", which aren't specific parishes or congregations.

I recommend:

• Ensuring every MP has a birthplace.
• Ensuring every MP has exactly one preferred birthplace (e.g. if there are two birthplaces, specify one has the preferred one). I have decided to prefer to specify the birthplace to the parish/congregational level whenever it didn't require too much research (always in rural areas), and to the city level if the MP was born in a city (in which case it can be somewhat tedious to find in which congregation the MP was born).
• Ensuring every dead MP has a death date.
• Ensuring every MP has a birth date specified by year, month, and day.
• Ensuring every MP has a death date specified by a year, month, and day.
• Ensuring (almost) every MP born in Sweden has a birthplace specified to at least the parish/congregational level if the MP was born outside a city, and if the MP was born in a rural area, ensure the birthplace is specified to at least the parish/congregational level.
• Confirming every MP who died in Sweden has a similarly detailed death location.

After using tertiary sources, let's link Swedish-born MPs to the Swedish Death Index 8, a quality secondary source. This addresses the second task and also helps us determine to what degree we have correctly assigned birth locations to MPs.

Please take all of this as a suggestion (since I am merely an outside contributor).

[salgo60]

Just out of curiosity what is your user case? Why is the birth location important?

The problem I always see when adding data from a source with text strings is what they reference a parish, a city or a combination.... is difficult to say

• my feeling with Tvåkammar Riksdagen is that they are not strict sometimes you can from the name understand it's a parish... sometimes not...
• Riksarkivet SBL are more strict but lack sources and they have bug #33 that I
  reported 3 years ago and not still fixed that they use parish names that doesn't exist when a person was born or died
  • Birthplace with source SBL were SBL is depreciated because error
• one challenge is that we don't have persistent identifiers for every house in Sweden in Wikidata or street.... I have started to use the death book as a source to reference the street they lived on when they died and if they died in Stockholm wikipedia/wikidata has articles about most streets in central Stockholm

This issue with using parishes as death location was also not satisfying for Litteraturbanken link that use Wikidata a lot e.g. they would like to see the death location of August Strindberg as Blå Tornet...

• my vision is that we should also describe the window that in Wikidata that is the window to the apartment the person lived in we he/she died... my feeling that is the direction Google Map is moving

[fredrik1984]

Hi @monirbounadi! I am happy that you have found out about our Swerik project (https://swerik-project.github.io/), and that you find our work useful! Currently, adding birth/death place is not prioritized in our project, but it is great that you do this since we can include this as metadata in our MP database later on. I guess you already have access to the digitized biographical books (1–5) of the bicameral riksdag?

What is your PhD project about?

[monirbounadi]

@salgo60 To begin with I want a basic understanding of the selection of MPs, which includes where in Sweden they come from. To get more precise information on the MPs, for example, their family or socioeconomic background, I would need to link them to other historical registers, and for accurate linking the birth location is necessary.

• Yes, the book is not always as precise as one would like.
• I see.
• Hmm, okay, is this worrisome with respect to the task in my OP?

@fredrik1984 Thanks for your work! Looking at this project is mostly exploratory for me at this stage. Yes, I think I saw the digitized books here at Github somewhere.

My project is about the struggle for female suffrage in Sweden. Together with another student, I look into the geographical distribution of women's engagement in local politics and popular movements around the end of the 1800s. A long time ago we tried to see whether we could systematically get a sense of various MPs' views on female suffrage. The National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden) made some surveys on this in the early 1900s (they explicitly asked MPs about their views; the surveys can be found at the National Archives of Sweden in Stockholm). Until 1923, if I remember correctly, voting was secret in Tvåkammarriksdagen. Thus, we can't for example see which MP voted in favor and which voted against female suffrage at the end of the 1910s. However, maybe we could proxy their views by systematically analyzing what they said about suffrage in Tvåkammarriksdagen, or whether their views were just a function of the dominant view held by the party they belonged to.

Beyond that, I am just interested in the data for other exploratory reasons.

[salgo60]

My vision as said is that we should see the window a person lived in when he/she died --> If I walk down a street we should raise the phone and see articles from newspaper about the street or people living on the street or like in my video the apartment Petren lived in when she died see deathbook Scheelegatan 13

I did some check in Wikidata and Swedish PM and death location see #233

• article by Denny the brain behind WIkidata of the problem with instance of "A categorical imperative?"

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Thus, we can't for example see which MP voted in favor and which voted against female suffrage at the end of the 1910s

If you could map the voting list to WIkidata Qnumber I feel we could rather easy create a map showing in different colors if the voted yes or no

• another interesting point would be to check the base salary P3618/ net worth P2218 that I have started to gather se #103
  • yesterday I also added a parent and the base salary --> my thought was to somehow track the economy of the household when growing up

[monirbounadi]

That's a wonderful vision!

"If you could map the vortinglist to WIkidata Qnumber I feel we could rather easy create a map showing in different colors if the voted yes or no". Hmm, how do you mean? Before 1923 (iirc), the only thing we know is the number of MPs who voted yes, no or who did not cast a vote. So we cannot assign votes to MPs before 1923.

Yes, the salary is interesting. I think one can systematically extract information about salary and education from the 1930 census. However, by connecting the MPs to the 1880-1910 censuses we get their occupations, which might give a better sense of their socioeconomic position. The sources are complementary of course.

[salgo60]

I think one can systematically extract information about salary and education from the 1930 census

I have education still on my to do list I havnt found how to make it Wikidata friendly see #102 #105

[fredrik1984]

My project is about the struggle for female suffrage in Sweden. Together with another student, I look into the geographical distribution of women's engagement in local politics and popular movements around the end of the 1800s.

Ok, cool! Hope we can collaborate further on this too. We in the Swerik project are always looking for collaboration!

[monirbounadi]

My project is about the struggle for female suffrage in Sweden. Together with another student, I look into the geographical distribution of women's engagement in local politics and popular movements around the end of the 1800s.

Ok, cool! Hope we can collaborate further on this too. We in the Swerik project are always looking for collaboration!

Thanks! I'm open to collaborations. In any case, I will follow the work you do.

[salgo60]

@monirbounadi another try I did was to get occupation classified with HISCOcodes see rep /salgo60/HISCOKoder

• and then do some social classification of different occupations... problem is there is no one on the other side of the line - Hur kommer i vidare ;-(
  • good thoughts from Katherine McDonough is that digital humaniora needs to start work together and create curated data that works together... right now I feel Wikidata is an enabler but that is not serious....

[MansMeg]

Hi!

It is great that you reach out! As @fredrik1984 mentioned, fixing birth dates and parishes are not our main priority right now, but we are happy if you would contribute with this!

I think this might be worthwhile for you, since if you add it to wikidata you can use our corpus to map the persons to debates, motions etc. Hence, I see a little of a win-win here.

If you are interested in going through the missing dates we could probably help out by generating a file on which mps are missing dates and open a specific issue for this. Would that be of interest to you?

[monirbounadi]

Hey @MansMeg! Thanks! Yes, it sounds like a win-win. Yes, if you generate a file with missing birth dates and missing birthplaces, I'm happy to consider looking at that issue.

[salgo60]

Yes, if you generate a file with missing birth dates and missing birthplaces, I'm happy to consider looking at that issue.

@monirbounadi

I guess what you are looking after to use is the electoral district not the birth location?

• right now wikidata has no geographic information for election districts
  • is it available with license CC-0? see Wikidata licensing
  • Wikidata patterns
    • just use a coordinate --> Wikidata Property P625 see example Swedish municipals Q504676#P625
    • use geoshape P3896 --> Wikidata P3896 see example Nature reserve Bogesundslandet Q30181662#P3896 that use Data:/Sweden/Nature_reserves/2020/Bogesundslandet/2014800.map

I guess missing birth date and birth location is the records missing the source "Two-Chamber Parliament 1867-1970" Q110346241

• Swedish PMs 1st and 2nd chamber --> list SPARQL

• Missing birthdate list SPARQL --> minus {?person wdt:P569 ?birthdate}

• Missing birth place list SPARQL --> minus {?person wdt:P19 ?placeofBirth}

[monirbounadi]

Thanks @salgo60! It is actually the birth locations I am interested in as a first step. I think that step is easier. How would you go about finding the election district for each MP? It is very tough to get to the municipal boundaries for a given year in Sweden. I have a map of municipal districts in 1919. I know of no other map of municipal districts.

It would be interesting to get a query that gives the set of MPs with a birth location that is not a parish or congregation of Sweden.

[salgo60]

How would you go about finding the election district for each MP

We have it in Wikidata example SPA sj9PGLAlnmUAAAAAABfQbA same as Q5890333

has election district Q10710315 "Uppvidinge härads valkrets"

You have

• svWikipedia article Uppvidinge härads valkrets

  • the article contains also the number of votes
  

• what could be better is the amount of structured data in Wikidata for the object

  • we could do like we did for Swedish Church parishes we're we took the easy track and just added a coordinate were the church in the parish is located...

[salgo60]

@monirbounadi let me know if I should show you Wikidata we can share screen

• I have created abt 1000 videos on youtube mostly about Wikidata
• my overview what I know people has done in Wikidata with Swedish PMs
  • user @miroli Robin Linderborg is the person who has update 99% of all electoral districts for Swedish PMs

[monirbounadi]

@salgo60 Sure we can talk more about this. Very tired today and probably also tomorrow so I'm taking it a bit easy this week! It's great if there's 100% coverage w.r.t. election districts!

[salgo60]

Let me know when you wake up ;-) I will be away during the weekend... you have my number and we can start with a short session... Linked data is a never ending learning process I feel we also should look into Open Refine how you can reconsolidate your voting data with Wikidata

• sv:Wikipedia Kategori:Historiska valkretsar i Sverige
  • Kategori:Valkretsar i Sverige

[salgo60]

• Wikidata fråga

[monirbounadi]

Hey again! So I've done the following recently:

• I added death dates to all MPs (in the bicameral Riksdag) on Wikidata who had (a) died and (b) had no death date.
• This means that each MP has a birth and death date.
• I then matched all MPs to the Swedish Death Index 8 using the birth and death dates. This matched about 90% of the dead MPs.
• I looked into why some of the MPs did not match the index. The obvious cases are those who died outside Sweden. But then there were some cases where birth or death dates were incorrectly entered on Wikidata. I corrected some of these.
• This suggests that the basic biographical information on Wikidata can still be improved.

In any case, this helps track down the birthplaces of MPs.

[fredrik1984]

Thanks a lot, @monirbounadi! Great work, which will also be of use to us. Will you continue to add MP metadata to Wikidata?

[monirbounadi]

@fredrik1984 My goal is to get a full picture of the birth locations and birth dates of all MPs. Wikidata definitely helps with that but now that I've found some errors I am not sure how accurate it is. For example, this guy has 3 (technically 2) birthplaces: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6043666. I think "Södra Åby" is the right one as it is the one I traced down in the parish records.

I realized that by using name, birth, and death date, and then matching it to the Swedish death index, I got a quick way to get more accurate information on the birthplaces. However, it should be noted that many times Wikidata is more precise than the death book. This is in cases where for example the death location is different from the locality in which the MP formally resided.

To answer your question, I'll add some MP metadata when I find it necessary for me to get closer to "a full picture of the birth locations and birth dates of all MPs". This means that whenever manual coding is necessary, I do the manual stuff at Wikidata.

[fredrik1984]

Ok, sounds like a good plan!

[monirbounadi]

I have attached a link to a list of the WD records of MPs that could not be matched to the Swedish Death Index 8. The easiest to explain cases are (a) did not die in Sweden or (b) have not died.

It is a CSV file.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hvh1othhukwif8nt0pu6t/missing_postID_cleaned.csv?rlkey=ic4tvovbawhgrllpcudc9ek1f&dl=0

[MansMeg]

This is great! I assume that we would just want to update our metadata now with this information? Or is it anything you would need from us @monirbounadi ?

@BobBorges , I guess this a new PR with this new data by updating from wikidata?

[BobBorges]

yep

[monirbounadi]

@MansMeg Great! No, I need nothing from you. I will let you know when I am confident we have all the birth locations and when I'm satisfied with the quality of the biographic information. Thanks!

[monirbounadi]

Example of a person with a completely wrong birthplace in the book Tvåkammarriksdagen:

Found some additional birth and death dates today that were incorrect too.

Will leave this for now until next week.

[salgo60]

Here you have how Lundström in Filipstad is connected to SBL article Lundström 34902

And the family tree of the son Herman Q1610294 - what we have in WD

What you should do is NER on those old SBL texts

see this Wikidata weekly newsletter 2023 09 25

• Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • below nearest neighbour

see

[salgo60]

Example of a person with a completely wrong birthplace in the book Tvåkammarriksdagen

• in Wikidata you can do SPARQL search to find those records we have marked depreciated and why see #35
• book "Tvåkammar-riksdagen 1867–1970" (Q110346241) - SPARQL sökning
• Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (Q379406) - SPARQL search
• Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (Q50395049) - SPARQL search
• Sveriges dödbok (Q10686079) - SPARQL search

My talk och blogpost 2021 about metadataroundtripping and how we 1750 had persistent identifiers for Runestones but today we do solutions with strings

[monirbounadi]

Thanks @salgo60! This is great. I will look into your links a bit further when I have time. Away tomorrow for a conference.

[salgo60]

Thanks @salgo60! This is great. I will look into your links a bit further when I have time. Away tomorrow for a conference.

@monirbounadi

dont miss to be part of Wikidata modelling day

I wrote about the problems we see with bad research data and lack of good modelling on sv:Wikipedia and also some good links to understand Wikidata

[monirbounadi]

I am soon done with this. A bit tedious but it has been educational to do this during a number of evenings. One observation I want to put out here already though is that it seems to me that Wikidata has more accurate birth and death dates now than most other secondary sources that I have looked at (e.g. the book "Tvåkammar-riksdagen 1867-1970" or the "Swedish Death Index 8"). The reason is that their dates have been directly checked with the vital registers in Sweden (e.g., birth and death books) for unclear MPs. The same goes with the birthplaces. In fact, I have found many errors in "Tvåkammar-riksdagen 1867-1970" regarding the birthplace. It seems to me that in some cases the birthplace given in "Tvåkammar-riksdagen 1867-1970" coincides with the places of living when the MP was about 1 year old, which is not necessarily the place of birth. There are plenty of opposite cases where an MP is born in for example a city such as Stockholm, as given in "Tvåkammar-riksdagen 1867-1970", but it is very hard or impossible to find the MP in early household examination records in the given city. In these cases, it seems like the parents of the MP simply used facilities/people in a city for the conception and christening.

Just by looking at these cases, it seems to me that the parents of many of the MPs were extremely mobile relative to the rest of the population. (I understand it is not a priority for you to do life-course analysis, but I think it is descriptively quite interesting.)

[salgo60]

A bit tedious

@monirbounadi There is a gadget so that you can drag and drop from Wikipedia se video

My common,js file that you can copy and create your own common.js see also #123

• your edit stats wikidata.wikiscan.org - wikidata changestream

• more tools Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface

• example a tool I have written to easier download pictures of swedish PMs from SPA - GITHUB salgo60/spa2Commons

• its activated on wikicommons in the common.js file see mine commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Salgo60/common.js

[fredrik1984]

Thank you @monirbounadi for your thorough work! Very good to know about this, and the flaws in the bio books.

[monirbounadi]

Thanks @salgo60! That is very helpful.

The tedious part mostly comes from double-checking with household examination records, especially for unclear cases.

[salgo60]

Thanks @salgo60! That is very helpful.

The tedious part mostly comes from double-checking with household examination records, especially for unclear cases.

That is why you should i WIkidata make it easier for the next person to check the sources and add an url to the free church book... I have written about how dysfunctional I feel Riksarkivet works feels more a waste of tax payers money

Why is it important with the location for you? what is your user case

What we miss in Wikidata is a good source for historical places with persistent identifiers it was a good try at Riksarkivet Tora but I feel they gave up...(I created property P4820)

FYI I changed your edit on Q5966042

You had on that item SBL that also had info about birth and death place.... they use text strings and miss something like Wikidata but has a lot of quality checks...

OT jag testade med chatGPT att jmf olika Wikipedia språks artiklar och vilka källor dom använt

[monirbounadi]

The birth location is important since birth dates and birthplaces are often unique identifiers in Swedish censuses. Using birth dates and birthplaces we can write a program that connects the MPs to the censuses 1880-1910 that have been digitized by the National Archives of Sweden. Does that make sense?

Wikidata is a good source for parishes in Sweden. The only issue as I see it is that historical dioceses are not recorded in the Wikidata entries for the parishes.

That is great. Editing my edits should improve the data!

Using chatGPT for that seems sensible to me!

[monirbounadi]

Okay, so now I've added birthplaces to all missing posts. I have also corrected a number of errors, changed some birthdates, added death dates for all dead MPs, added death places for most of the death MPs, made some research in primary sources and updated accordingly, etc. The quality should be of very high quality now but can of course be improved.

This issue can be closed.

To be clear: I don't know if I can close this issue. If someone else can, please do so. Otherwise, let me know how I can do it. Thanks.

[salgo60]

Wikidata is a good source for parishes in Sweden. The only issue as I see it is that historical dioceses are not recorded in the Wikidata entries for the parishes.

They are please give one example

see. how we have matched NAD with Wikidata Svenskaforsamlingar

• guess all parishes also have an article see Kategori:Svenska kyrkans församlingar/ Kategori:Historiska församlingar i Sverige
  • every church parish has one WD item and every "socken" has one WD item
    • Riksarkivet Tora did combine church parish and "socken" which I feel is a anti-pattern see T233275
      • about Tora / Tora map / my feedback 2018 to Tora

[monirbounadi]

I think the parishes that previously belonged to Kalmar diocese are simply said to be part of Växjö diocese since Kalmar diocese got subsumed into Växjö diocese. So it is hard to infer which parishes previously belonged to Kalmar diocese.

If I remember correctly some diocesan boundaries have also changed over time. For example, Stockholm diocese took over some parishes from Uppsala diocese upon its creation. For example, Brännkyrka congregation (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10436974) belonged to Uppsala stift before 1942, which is not noted in the entry for Brännkyrka congregation.

This is the issue with the Wikidata entries on the parishes:

If parish X belongs to Växjö stift, did it at some point belong to Kalmar stift before 1915 or has it always belonged to Växjö stift?

If parish X belongs to Stockholms stift, did it belong to Uppsala stift or Strängnäs stift before 1942?

[monirbounadi]

I now see how I can close this issue, so I'll close it (see above).

[salgo60]

example, Brännkyrka congregation (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10436974) belonged to Uppsala stift before 1942, which is not noted in the entry for Brännkyrka congregation.

The relationship church parish "stift" I think is not in wikidata and dont know if we need it what you have is replaced by P1366

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• Properties for "stift"

[monirbounadi]

Isn't stift/diocese given by values on property P708? "Brännkyrka församling" (Q10436974) has value "Stockholms stift" on P708. But it should say that it has that value for a period after 1941.

[monirbounadi]

This problem occured to me when I realized that there are two historical congregations called "Ryssby församling". One lied in Växjö stift. Another lied in Kalmar stift. But now they both lie in Växjö stift! So how to differentiate them using the Wikidata entries? Not easy. We have to take the "kontrakt" into account. Here they are:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10658311
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10658310

The problem then is that when strings actually uniquely identify things, such as "Ryssby församling" + "Växjö stift" in 1900 and "Ryssby församling" + "Kalmar stift" in 1900, Wikidata cannot as of yet handle that.

[salgo60]

! So how to differentiate them using the Wikidata entries? Not easy. We have to take the "kontrakt" into account. Here they ar

But wikidata never use Strings that is the idea of Linked data

Wikipedia is old school and use unique text strings to disambiguate

• Q10658311 --> Wikipedia Ryssby församling, Kalmar-Ölands kontrakt
• Q10658310 --> Wikipedia Ryssby församling, Allbo-Sunnerbo kontrakt

Looks like stift is added Q10658311

One interesting design pattern is

• P131 "inom administrativt område"
• P3133 "inom nuvarande administrativt område" --> used for historical objects that was before we had a administrative unit like kommun

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• P708 stift is on 9438 Swedish objects with a coordinate see map

You can filter by clicking to the right

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I did a SPARQL and all WD objects with wd:Q615980 has P708

• has P708 = 3383
• missing P708 = 0

[monirbounadi]

My point is not that a diocese is not recorded for each parish.

My point is the following:

A parish can belong to different dioceses across time. Currently, on WD, only the current diocese is given (as I understand it) with no specification of during which time period the parish belonged to that diocese. This means that for people who work with historical registers of parishes in the 1800s, the WD entries will be less useful than for those who work with similar registers in the early 2000s.

[salgo60]

My point is not that a diocese is not recorded for each parish.

My hope is the lesson learned from you using Wikidata is NEVER USE TEXT STRINGS

The next step I think is that you should not use Wikidata instead create your own Linked data that is trusted... the very big challenge is that Wikidata has been alive > 10 years and have a technical good product owner in Lydia

[salgo60]

A parish can belong to different dioceses across time. Currently, on WD, only the current diocese is given (as I understand it) with no specification of during which time period the parish belonged to that diocese. This means that for people who work with historical registers of parishes in the 1800s, the WD entries will be less useful than for those who work with similar registers in the early 2000s.

Do you have a good source for those statements? Then its just easy to add it....

Currently, on WD, only the current diocese is given

Maybe.... as shown above its no problem with the Wikidata model to add qualifier start end and also say that this is just for part "FOLKBOKFÖRING" etc...

The big challenge I see for humaniora research is that I feel

• the technology like Wikidata is there and its a free "empty" version wikibase that is also available as a cloud version
• to do good linked data you need start communicate communicate and what I see mostly are silos working with text strings and that is a very big change

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The big step I see with this project

• excellent usage of GITHUB
• showing that TEI is maybe a way forward
• even a community driven site like Wikidata can add values if they have persistent identifiers for e.g. Swedish PM people...

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What I lack

• You have not explored Wikidata extensively to determine its potential for enhancing research, particularly in the realm of political research on an international scale, such as incorporating relationships between different countries' corpus

  • if the Wikidata approach could be used for better scaling political research and do it more international i.e. adding relation between different countries corpus. I compared the productivity with SBL text strings and SKBL structured data, and SKBL using structured data produced 100 times more female bios. My feeling and what I see with Wikipedia/Wikidata and moving to Linked data is the real game changer see Tim Berners Lee The Next web of open linked data and Google "Applied semantics: beyond the catalog". The representative from Google talks about the importance of good metadata, and asserts that if they do their job well, there should be no need for anyone else to look up information such as Angela Merkel's birthdate...

    • seeing all the cut and pasting and that SKBL conducts research on the same women that SBL has already researched is not 2023 and it cannot be justified that tax money is not used more efficiently, and everyone has to start from scratch sad that SKBL produced so bad data and didnt do Linked data....

  • there hasn't been an effort on your part to evaluate tools like Scholia, which is built upon Wikidata, and has been utilized by other researchers see Swedish MP Anna Lind scholia.toolforge.org/author/Q208591 --> Scholia --> GITHUB WDscholia/scholia

  • a vision entails creating a unified framework where your data, structured as Linked Data, can seamlessly integrate with the broader body of research data across Europe. This integration can foster a collaborative research ecosystem, enabling the sharing of knowledge and insights across borders. By aligning your data with common standards and leveraging tools like Persistent Identifiers, it's possible to achieve a higher level of interoperability and data consistency. This will not only enhance the scalability and international scope of political research but also contribute to a more cohesive understanding of complex, transnational issues. Through platforms like Wikidata and tools like Scholia, there's potential to build upon existing infrastructures, thereby enriching the collective knowledge base and advancing the broader research objectives.

  • Utilizing Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) is a practice aimed at ensuring the long-term accessibility and traceability of digital items. Wikidata, for instance, has employed PIDs to all uploaded images, enabling a more organized and searchable database and support of more than 300 languages. Moreover, they've introduced a feature allowing for parts of an image to be annotated to indicate what or who is depicted, enhancing the information retrieval process. An example of this is seen in the annotations of "The Coronation of Napoleon" image, where labels are provided in various languages including Chinese (zh), Swedish (sv), and English (en). By integrating such practices, you can significantly improve the management and sharing of digital resources within the European research data framework. This move towards a more structured and interlinked data environment can facilitate collaborative research efforts, and potentially unlock new insights through cross-referencing and analysis of a rich, multilingual data repository.

    • merely copying and pasting from an old book not significantly advance the frontier of possible research in 2023. I observe the same lack of vision in other research project Familia see my try with them - see how I challenge the term "vilde" by using SPARQL and linked data to compare what was published in books from 1900 compared with "the bible" you trust

  • It appears that there hasn't been a clear initiative to challenge organizations like Riksdagens Öppna data, Riksarkivet, Riksarkivet SBL, Kungliga biblioteket, and Digital museum regarding the quality of data they provide. Understanding the level of support or the lack thereof from these organizations is crucial as it may significantly impact research outcomes. The gaps in support might relate to various factors including easy to communicate like using GITHUB, data accuracy, completeness, accessibility, or interoperability which could hinder the progress and quality of research. By addressing these issues and advocating for better data practices, it could pave the way for more reliable and comprehensive research, fostering a conducive environment for scholarly endeavors. Furthermore, collaborating with these organizations to improve data quality and availability could potentially lead to more insightful findings and a richer knowledge base, thus advancing the broader research objectives.

    • Observe my attempt to get your focus on some Swedish MPs with less good data using Q120143028 - (#359 - #324..., where I believe you should concentrate and enhance the data quality. It's advisable to apply the same approach to the aforementioned organizations, avoiding the isolation of data silos #25 / #24...