Been falling down on a research rabbit hole as a result of feeling very aggrieved on behalf of Filemón Lozano y Lozano. He was a Mexican botanical collector who worked with Cyrus Pringle. Variously described as "helper" or "travelling companion" & is generally not listed as a co-collector on Pringle specimens. I've added him to #Bionomia and #Wikidata. I've also ensured he's linked in Wikidata to the genus Lozanella and the multiple species named in his honour.

As part of my Wikimedian in Residence role at the New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute I've created documentation using Bionomia.net frictionless data packages and #OpenRefine to help add "collection items at" statements to collector items in #Wikidata See https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18379994 #Bionomia #NaturalHistory #Collectors

Thrilled to announce that after much work our Introduction to Bionomia module for the Hidden Figures Course base Undergraduate Research Experience has been published on
Qubeshub. Thanks to Makenzie Mabry BCEENET for all the help & support https://doi.org/10.25334/axve-e198 #Bionomia #NaturalHistoryCollections

Spent a lot of today attempting to link in the botanical collector Mrs John Mack collecting around 1836. How I wish I knew her full name 'cause she collected specimens that to this day are still informing our knowledge of biodiversity. #Wikidata #Bionomia
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123438368

I've just made my youtube recording of a presentation I did on "Connecting Entomological Collectors to the Wikiverse" public. See https://youtube.com/watch?v=kWp9Yi4v87c #Wikidata #Bionomia

That #FieldMuseum @BionomiaTrack dataset I was working on is now at 40%. That is, in #Bionomia 40% of the specimens in that dataset are now linked to either the #ORCID or the #Wikidata item for the collector or determiner of those specimens. It's now up to the FieldMuseum to decide whether they want to make use of that linking. #LinkedOpenData

Just spent the morning with the #TePapa natural history team talking #Bionomia #GBIF #Wikidata and #ORCID. Explained how to link collectors/determiners to their specimens. #LinkedOpenData Slides & script can be found here https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8097989

Doing specimen attribution work in #Bionomia (https://bionomia.net/) & I get a thrill seeing "R/V Tangaroa" (she isn't French!) My Dad, Andrew Leachman, captained that vessel "month on, month off". If I had a list of voyages he went on I'd be able to work out whether he & his crew helped collect this specimen.