Steve Baskauf

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

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. 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

Baskauf, Steven J., Jennifer Girón Duque, Matthew Nielsen. Using the Audubon Core Controlled Vocabularies for subjectPart and subjectOrientation. Biodiversity Information Standards Annual Meeting. Sofia, Bulgaria. October 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.90955

Mayfield-Meyer, Teresa Jegelewicz, Steven J. Baskauf, Dag Endresen, Christian Bölling, John Wieczorek, Richard L. Pyle, and Jutta Buschbom. 2022. MaterialSample and its Properties. Biodiversity Information Standards Annual Meeting. Sofia, Bulgaria. October 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91407

Sica, Yanina, Kate Ingenloff, Yi-Ming GAN, Zachary Kachian, Steven J. Baskauf, John Wieczorek, Paula F. Zermoglio, and Robert D. Stevenson. 2022. Application of Humboldt Extension to Real-world Cases. Biodiversity Information Standards Annual Meeting. Sofia, Bulgaria. October 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91502

Baskauf, Steve, Imam Dagher, and Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts. 2022-07-14. Working with VanderBot to Add Multilingual Content (in English and Arabic) to Wikidata. 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data. Online. https://sched.co/13sdP

Lew, Charlotte and Steve Baskauf. 2022-06-16. Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition Database to Wikidata. ATLA 2022 Annual Conference. Online. https://sched.co/10N82

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Latest Posts

Building an Omeka website on AWS
Building an Omeka website on AWS

I recently finished building an Omeka digital collection for images from the files of Bassett Associates, a landscape architectural firm that operated for over 60 years in Lima, Ohio. This award-winning firm, which disbanded in 2017, was well known for its zoological design work and also did ground-breaking work in incorporating storm water retention as part of landscape site design.

Publication of subjectPart and subjectOrientation controlled vocabularies
Publication of subjectPart and subjectOrientation controlled vocabularies

On 26 April 2023 the Executive Committee of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) ratified two new controlled vocabularies to become a part of the Audiovisual Core standard. This marks the culmination of hundreds of hours of work on my part over many years.

Structured Data in Commons and wikibase software tools
Structured Data in Commons and wikibase software tools

In February, I gave a presentation at the Wikibase Working Hour about how my VanderBot tool for uploading data to Wikidata could be used more broadly with any kind of wikibase. One example I gave was using it to upload Structured Data on Commons (SDoC) statements that describe what is depicted in a media file, since SDoC is just another wikibase instance.