Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata (#55)

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+title: Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata
+date: 2023-06-08 12:09:23 +0200
+author: Charles Tapley Hoyt
+tags: wikidata bibliometrics
+---
+
+I was recently nominated for the International Society for
+Biocuration's [Excellence in Biocuration Early Career Award](https://www.biocuration.org/excellence-in-biocuration-early-career-award-2023/).
+This made me curious about how to model nominations and awards on Wikidata. In this post, I'll describe how to curate
+awards, nominations, recipients, and how to make SPARQL queries to get them.
+
+## Summarizing an Individual
+
+I'm going to use SPARQL with the [Wikidata Query Service](https://query.wikidata.org/) to see what's already in
+Wikidata. First, I want to find all of the awards that I've personally received using the
+[P166 (award received)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P166) property. Note that the following query also
+takes advantage of Wikidata's reification so I can reach into the qualifiers of each statement to figure out when
+the award was given.
+
+```sparql
+SELECT ?award ?awardLabel ?year ?conferer ?confererLabel
+WHERE { 
+  VALUES ?person { wd:Q47475003 }
+  ?person p:P166 ?award_statement .
+  ?award_statement ps:P166 ?award .
+  OPTIONAL { ?award wdt:P1027 ?conferer . }
+  OPTIONAL { 
+    ?award_statement pq:P585 ?date . 
+    BIND(year(?date) AS ?year)
+  }
+  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
+}
+```
+
+See this query in action at [https://w.wiki/6odU](https://w.wiki/6odU).
+
+As of time of writing, the only award that is listed here is the Bernie Lemire Award. This was given to me by
+the Northeastern University Department of Chemistry at the end of my bachelor's degree for service to the department and
+academic excellence. I am very proud of this award! You can switch out `wd:Q47475003` for your Wikidata
+identifier.
+
+A similar SPARQL query can be written to identify all of the awards for which I was nominated by swapping the predicate
+to [P1411 (nominated for)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1411). This isn't necessarily a superset of the
+awards received since some awards are decided without a nomination. It might also be the case depending on how curation
+is done that these are out of sync.
+
+```sparql
+SELECT ?award ?awardLabel ?year ?conferer ?confererLabel
+WHERE { 
+  VALUES ?person { wd:Q47475003 }
+  ?person p:P1411 ?award_statement .
+  ?award_statement ps:P1411 ?award .
+  OPTIONAL { ?award wdt:P1027 ?conferer . }
+  OPTIONAL { 
+    ?award_statement pq:P585 ?date . 
+    BIND(year(?date) AS ?year)
+  }
+  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
+}
+```
+
+See this query in action at [https://w.wiki/6odV](https://w.wiki/6odV).
+
+## Summarizing an Award
+
+Many awards are given on a periodic basis (e.g., yearly, bi-yearly). [Scholia](https://scholia.toolforge.org/award) is
+an excellent frontend to Wikidata that already has a way of summarizing awards. Some examples:
+
+- [Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Q44585)](https://scholia.toolforge.org/award/Q44585)
+- [Biocuration Career Award (Q106045191)](https://scholia.toolforge.org/award/Q106045191)
+
+## Summarizing a Conferrer
+
+Finally, I want to summarize all awards nominated or given by an organization. In this example, I'm going to look at
+the [International Society for Biocuration (ISB; Q23809291)](https://bioregistry.io/wikidata:Q23809291). The
+following query shows all of the recipients for all of the various awards conferred by the ISB:
+
+```sparql
+SELECT ?award ?awardLabel ?recipient ?recipientLabel ?year 
+WHERE { 
+  ?recipient p:P166 ?award_statement .
+  ?award_statement ps:P166 ?award .
+  OPTIONAL { 
+    ?award_statement pq:P585 ?date . 
+    BIND(year(?date) AS ?year)
+  }
+  ?award wdt:P1027 wd:Q23809291 .
+  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
+}
+ORDER BY DESC(?year) ?awardLabel
+```
+
+See this query in action at [https://w.wiki/6odW](https://w.wiki/6odW).
+
+At the time of writing, this only returned a paltry 9 rows, meaning more curation is necessary! Considering this award
+is about biocurators, we better get our act together 🙃. Similarly, the following query can be used to identify all
+nominations:
+
+```sparql
+SELECT ?award ?awardLabel ?nominee ?nomineeLabel ?year 
+WHERE { 
+  ?nominee p:P1411 ?award_statement .
+  ?award_statement ps:P1411 ?award .
+  OPTIONAL { 
+    ?award_statement pq:P585 ?date . 
+    BIND(year(?date) AS ?year)
+  }
+  ?award wdt:P1027 wd:Q23809291 .
+  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
+}
+ORDER BY DESC(?year) ?awardLabel
+```
+
+See this query in action at [https://w.wiki/6odX](https://w.wiki/6odX).
+
+There are only 5 results at the time of writing, and these are for my fellow nominees for the Excellence in Biocuration
+Early Career Award that I recently curated! There's a lot of work to do here for keeping a history of the ISB's awards.
+More generally, it turns out that there are only a bit more than 55K nomination relations in total. You can check this
+with:
+
+```sparql
+SELECT (count(*) AS ?count)
+WHERE { ?nominee wdt:P1411 ?award . }
+```
+
+## Curating an Award
+
+Award objects don't have to be complicated - the most important information is to include
+a useful instance annotation (e.g., to [science award (Q11448906)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11448906)) and the following:
+
+1. Field of Work (P101)
+2. Conferred By (P1027)
+3. Website (P856)
+
+See [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118947746](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118947746) as an example.
+
+## Curating an Individual
+
+On a given Wikidata page, you can add a statement for either *nominated for*
+or *award received* using Wikidata's amazing curation interface that has search
+built in. It's recommended to add a [point in time (P585)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P585)
+annotation to make a distinction between different periods.
+
+![](/img/wikidata_add_nominee_1.png)
+
+---
+Overall, I think modeling awards is hard, since these are less concrete than other academic information such as
+employment or education. Still, this is the next step in making my resume 100% auto-generated by SPARQL and Wikidata!