- Create application profiles for
a. Scientific names of organisms
Wikidata needs to be useful to the users of scientific names of organisms, such as taxonomists, ecologists, gardeners, museums, doctors, geneticists, conservationists etc. Currently the data model for taxonomy, nomenclature and specimen data on Wikidata conflating taxon concepts with taxon names and so Wikidata is not suitable to hold taxon information in a usable format. For example, Zamia calocoma (Q17348078) and Microcycas calocoma (Q144477) are different names for the same taxon, which gives the impression that Wikidata is modelling names. However, there is a picture of Microcycas calocoma (Q144477), so it must be modeling a taxon. If this were modelled correctly we could do many things that are not currently possible, just one example is that Wikidata could be used to test the rules of international nomenclature.
b. Projects and grants
DINGO, the Data Integration and Extension for Grant Ontology, is an ontology expressly designed to provide an extensible interoperable framework for formally conceptualizing and expressing the relevant parts of the research/cultural landscape in relation to funding, such that they can easily be shared between different actors and platforms. It is conceived to have sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements (see sections Aims of the model and Relation with other ontologies, extensions and integrations of the model, while at the same time being simple enough to be of immediate use also for the simplest use cases.