Database of university presidents

Description

This database contains the following information for all French universities:
* university Wikidata identifier ("university_identifier")
* university name ("universite_nom")
* start date of mandate ("start")
* end date of mandate ("end")
* president's Wikidata identifier ("president_identifier")
* name of the president ("president_nom")
* date of birth of the President ("birth")
* date of death of the President ("deces")
* age of the President at the beginning of her/his term of office ("age")
* sex of the president ("sex")
* role: makes it clear whether it is an interim president ("role")
* Reason for the end of the term of office: death, resignation, retirement, age limit ("reason")

The dataset matches the results of this SPARQL query (https://w.wiki/9saJ) with 2-3 changes.

To find out more about this project:

https://urfistinfo.hypotheses.org/4242

Remarks:

Wikimedia typographical conventions may vary from those used by the university, do not change the names of universities on Wikipedia or Wikidata without prior discussion.

  1. A large part of the presidents of the University of Auvergne - Clermont I are missing

Resources

Name Format Description Link
20240528-base-de-donnees-presidents-universites.csv CSV Open resource

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