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Our family loves to visit U.S. national parks and we have visited most of the ones that are easy to get to.

After finishing reading all of the Hugo Award winners for best novel, I decided to keep up the momentum and read all of the winners of the Nebula Award for best novel.

In May 2023, I completed a quest that was on my bucket list: reading all of the winners of the Hugo Award for best science fiction/fantasy novel.

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In my last blog post, I described a tool (CommonsTool) that I created for uploading art images to Wikimedia Commons.

A Ghost Painting Coming to Life in the Studio of the Painter Okyō, from the series Yoshitoshi ryakuga (Sketches by Yoshitoshi). 1882 print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.

"Welding sparkles" by Dhivya dhivi DJ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Background This is actually a sort of followup post to my most popular blog post: "Getting Data Out of Wikidata using Software", which has had about 6.5K views since 2019.

Pearly-eyed Thrasher - Bosque Estatal de Guánica, Puerto Rico NOTE: this information was accurate as of our trip in mid-March of 2022.

Introduction Those of you who know me know that I like to play somewhat complicated games.

This is the fourth part of a series of posts intended to help you manage and upload data to Wikidata using spreadsheets.

This is the third part of a series of posts intended to help you manage and upload data to Wikidata using spreadsheets.

For a video walk-through of the previous blog post and this one, see this page.

Warning: this blog post involves extreme hand-holding.

Photo from W3C https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html TDWG IRIs are dereferenceable with content negotiation!

In the previous blog post, I described how I used a Python script to upload data stored in a CSV spreadsheet to Wikidata via the Wikidata API.

In the previous post of this series, I described how my investigation of the Wikibase data model led me to settle on a relatively simple spreadsheet layout for tracking what items, statements, and references needed to be created or edited in Wikidata.

The Wikidata GUI and the Wikibase model To read part 1 of this series, see this page.

Note added 2021-03-13: Although this post is still relevant for understanding the conceptual ideas behind my project to write Vanderbilt researcher/scholar records to Wikidata, I have written another series of blog posts showing (with lots of screenshots…

This is the sixth and final post in a series on the TDWG Standards Documentation Specification (SDS).

This post is very focused on the details of two Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) standards as they relate to Linked Data and graph models.

This is a followup post to an earlier post about getting data out of Wikidata, so although what I'm writing about here doesn't really depend on having read that post, you might want to take a look at it for background.

For those of you who have been struggling through my series of posts on the TDWG Standards Documentation Specification, you may be happy to read a more "fun" post on everybody's current darling: Wikidata.

This is the fifth in a series of posts about the TDWG Standards Documentation Specification (SDS).

This is the fourth in a series of posts about the TDWG Standards Documentation Specification (SDS).

This is the third in a series of posts about the TDWG Standards Documentation Specification (SDS).