Steve Baskauf

former Data Science and Data Curation Specialist

Linked Open Data

Wikidata, RDF, JSON-LD

linking

biodiversity informatics

TDWG standards development

sharing

data science education

Python, R, GitHub

learning

Selected publications

Sica, Yanina V., Wesley M. Hochachka, Robert D. Stevenson, Kate Ingenloff, Paula Zermoglio, John Wieczorek, Yi-Ming Gan, Dmitry Schigel, Zachary R. Kachian, Steve Baskauf, Peter Brenton, Anahita J. N. Kazem, Walter Jetz, Robert Guralnick. 2025. Enabling Ecological Survey Data Integration with the Humboldt Extension to Darwin Core. Ecography e08223. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08223

Yanina V. Sica, Kate Ingenloff, Paula Zermoglio, Yi-Ming Gan, Peter Brenton, John Wieczorek, Wesley M. Hochachka, Zachary R. Kachian, Robert D. Stevenson, Anahita J. N. Kazem, Dmitry Schigel, Steven J. Baskauf, Tomomi Suwa, Robert Guralnick, Ramona L. Walls, Walter Jetz. 2024. Humboldt Extension Vocabulary List of Terms. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/doc/eco/

Jakub W. Bubnicki, Ben Norton, Steven J. Baskauf, Tom Bruce, Francesca Cagnacci, Jim Casaer, Marcin Churski, Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt, Simone Dal Farra, Christian Fiderer, Tavis D. Forrester, Heidi Hendry, Marco Heurich, Tim R. Hofmeester, Patrick A. Jansen, Roland Kays, Dries P.J. Kuijper, Yorick Liefting, John D.C. Linnell, Matthew S Luskin, Christopher Mann, Tanja Milotic, Peggy Newman, Jürgen Niedballa, Damiano Oldoni, Federico Ossi, Tim Robertson, Francesco Rovero, Marcus Rowcliffe, Lorenzo Seidenari, Izabela Stachowicz, Dan Stowell, Mathias W. Tobler, John Wieczorek, Fridolin Zimmermann, Peter Desmet. 2023. Camtrap DP: An open standard for the FAIR exchange and archiving of camera trap data. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.374

Baskauf, Steven J. and Jessica K. Baskauf. 2023. Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web Recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets. Semantic Web Journal 14:5-27. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-210443

Baskauf, Steven J., Jennifer C. Girón Duque, Matthew Nielsen, Niel S. Cobb, Randy Singer, Katja C. Seltmann, Zachary Kachian, Mervin Pérez, Donat Agosti, Anna M. L. Klompen. 2023. Implementation Experience Report for Controlled Vocabularies Used with the Audubon Core Terms subjectPart and subjectOrientation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7:e94188. http://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.94188

Groom, Quentin, Peter Desmet, Lien Reyserhove, Tim Adriaens, Damiano Oldoni, Sonia Vanderhoeven, Steven J. Baskauf, Arthur Chapman, Melodie McGeoch, Ramona Walls, John Wieczorek, John R. U. Wilson, Paula F. F. Zermoglio, Annie Simpson. 2019. Improving Darwin Core for research and management of alien species. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3:e38084. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.38084

Baskauf, Steven J., John Wieczorek, John Deck, and Campbell O. Webb. 2016. Lessons learned from adapting the Darwin Core vocabulary standard for use in RDF. Semantic Web Journal 7:617-627. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-150199 (open access at http://bit.ly/2e7i3Sj)

Baskauf, Steven J. and Campbell O. Webb. 2016. Darwin-SW: Darwin Core-based terms for expressing biodiversity data as RDF. Semantic Web Journal 7:629-243. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-150203 (open access at http://bit.ly/2dG85b5)

Recent presentations

Baskauf, Steve. February 13, 2025. Building a Global Knowledge Graph: The Semantic Web, Linked Data, and Wikidata. Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH. Feburary 13, 2025. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28410554

Baskauf, Steve. June 10, 2024. Recent advancements in the Audiovisual Core standard for biodiversity multimedia. Advances in Digital Media Workshop Series: Yale. New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Presentation slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26014210

Vivek, L., E. Clark, S.J. Baskauf, S. Xu, L. Gao, K. Nguyen, M. Goldin, K. Prasad, A. Miller, M.C. Topf, and A. Gelbard. 2024. Network Analysis of American Otolaryngologists. Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting, West Palm Beach, FL. January 26, 2024.

Baskauf, Steve. CommonsTool. LD4 Art and Design Affinity Group. Online. November 15, 2023. Presentation slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24570859. Video link

Sica, Yanina V., Wesley M. Hochachka, Yi-Ming Gan, Kate Ingenloff, Dmitry Schigel, Robert D. Stevenson, Steven J. Baskauf, Peter Brenton, Anahita J. N. Kazem, John Wieczorek. 2023. Want to Describe and Share Biodiversity Inventory and Monitoring Data? The Humboldt Extension for Ecological Inventories Can Help! Biodiversity Information Standards Annual Meeting. Hobart, Australia. October 10, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112229

Baskauf, Steve. TDWG Audiovisual Core Standard: Vocabularies for describing multimedia. Biological Data Standards Cluster - Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) meeting. Online. June 1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23277536

Baskauf, Steve. Recent Developments in Biodiversity Informatics Standards: Describing the World Beyond Museum Collections. Austin Peay University (invited speaker). February 27, 2023. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22495906

Baskauf, S. Using VanderBot with wikibases. LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Online. February 13, 2023. Presentation video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VH47ej63-sEYNCD8DL25SeerW8Y9f7di/view

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Latest Posts

Enabling ecological survey data integration
Enabling ecological survey data integration

Our paper describing the Humboldt Extension to Darwin Core has been published in Ecography. The Humboldt Extension adds 55 terms that enrich the Darwin Core, providing the terms needed to capture and share multiple types of biodiversity survey data. The paper illustrates the benefits of implementing the Humboldt Extension with three case studies and demonstrates how richer data can be used in research, modelling, and to inform decision-making.

Biological survey and monitoring data publishing guide
Biological survey and monitoring data publishing guide

My coauthors and I have published a guide to help people understand how to use the new Humboldt Extension for Biological Inventories of the Darwin Core standard. The guide includes diagrams and detailed information about how to structure the data to capture the hierarchical structure typically found in monitoring projects.

Open Science recipes published
Open Science recipes published

My colleage from the Vanderbilt Libraries’ Digital Lab, Shenmeng Xu, an I have published two chapters in the ACRL’s 2025 Open Science Cookbook. The Cookbook is a lighthearted take on technical topics where instructions are given in “recipe” format to teach beginners new tech skills.