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

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. http://dx.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. http://dx.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. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SW-150203 (open access at http://bit.ly/2dG85b5)

Recent presentations

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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Humboldt Extension for Ecological Inventories Published
Humboldt Extension for Ecological Inventories Published

The Humboldt Extension for Ecological Inventories is a new metadata vocabulary that extends the Darwin Core Standard to make it possible to describe the inventories and sampling events that are used to collect organism occurrence data. This is the largest extension to Darwin Core since the original vocabulary was ratified in 2009 and it represents over three years of work by the Humboldt Extension Task Group. This group of international experts met weekly over that time period to develop the vocabulary, carry out implementation testing, and publish the vocabulary and associated documentation.

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Published: Mar 19, 2024

Camtrap DP paper published
Camtrap DP paper published

Camera trapping is an increasingly important method used by ecologists for monitoring animals in the wild. Camera trap data has previously been difficult to publish by conventional means, since the data includes many related images or videos that must be associated with the occurrence data. The new Camtrap DP standard provides a way to package camera trap data based on the open Frictionless Data Package specification. Camtrap DP datasets can be easily exchanged or published to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) where the included occurrence data will be integrated with biodiversity data collected by other means.

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Published: Dec 10, 2023

Nine hundred images added to Wikimedia Commons from ACT
Nine hundred images added to Wikimedia Commons from ACT

Charlotte Lew and I have been working for some time to improve access to images in the Art in the Christian Tradition database by linking descriptive metadata in Wikidata to the corresponding artwork images in Wikimedia Commons. In the first part of the project, we were primarily cleaning up and linking Wikidata metadata to images that were already in Commons.

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