Allow users to create groups and to solicit membership

bionomia / bionomia

Sinatra app to parse people names from biodiversity occurrence data, apply basic regular expressions and heuristics to disambiguate them, and to make these occurrence records as entities that can be claimed by people via ORCID.

https://bionomia.net

MIT License

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Allow users to create groups and to solicit membership #18

Open dshorthouse opened 5 years ago

dshorthouse commented 5 years ago

Half-baked idea, but perhaps it would be useful for users to create groups (+ custom theme banner) and to solicit membership. There are many such taxonomically- and/or geographically-themed associations but few would ever have an opportunity to aggregate all their specimens as a showcase of their group's collective effort. In effect, this would be comparable to iNaturalist but for preserved specimens already shared to GBIF.

dshorthouse commented 5 years ago

There are other possibilities for better engagement for groups of people such as

World politicians
explorers
women naturalists

kcopas commented 5 years ago

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_botanists (I'm still only in the A's—spoiler alert: lots of Wikidata pages needed)
Apostles of Linnaeus (working steadily on these)
European and American voyages of scientific exploration (not exhaustive, btw)
- e.g. Collectors and identifiers for U.S. Naval Expedition to Japan 1852-1853
- - James Morrow
- - Samuel Wells Williams
- - Asa Gray
- - Wiliam Starling Sullivant
- - William Henry Harvey
- - Daniel Cady Eaton
- - Francis Boott

dshorthouse commented 5 years ago

@kcopas Interesting. I wonder how to leverage lists like this. Far better for the context to be established in wikipedia/wikidata, but it would be nice if these could be automatically drawn-in as a thematic group and w/ a group-wide progress indicator.

kcopas commented 5 years ago

How about simply using the human members of a given group, e.g.

Perry expedition: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7169780
Austrian Brazil Expedition (obvs a stub): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q301417
Comisión científica del Pacífico (no Wikidata yet)

abubelinha commented 4 months ago

Interesting thread.

Are you meaning groups in the sense of "show a Bionomia's page to summarize all specimens and collectors related to the Whatever scientific expedition" (for example)? (but doing that task based on personal identifiers of each expedition member)
Or are you meaning incorporation to Bionomia of recordedByID identifiers for groups of people in the sense discussed here? (so using this kind of wikidata identifiers, as cited here)
Or maybe you are considering both options

@abubelinha

dshorthouse commented 4 months ago

The intent was more like the first one in your list, though limited in the first pass as a list of participants in a group (defined I suppose with an optional start and end date) rather than dipping down to the particular specimens gathered throughout the course of one's membership in a group. What was later revealed however is the possibility for multiple start/end dates per participant in the same group. For example, a member of a long-running expedition may have multiple, documented affiliation/association points recorded as start/end and so development of this stalled.