Wikidata:WikiCite

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WikiCite WikiProject (formerly WikiProject Source Metadata)

The English word "citation" sung by a soprano singer

The aim of WikiCite is:

to act as a hub for work in Wikidata involving citation data and bibliographic data as part of the broader WikiCite initiative.
to define a set of properties that can be used by citations, infoboxes, and Wikisource.
to map and import all relevant metadata that currently is spread across Commons, Wikipedia, and Wikisource.
establish methods to interact with this metadata from different projects.
to create a large open bibliographic database within Wikidata.
to reveal, build, and maintain community stakeholdership for the inclusion and management of source metadata in Wikidata.

There have been various proposals over the years for similar projects (see meta:WikiCite for details). Now that Wikidata is here, we can make it happen.

Current activities

User:Research Bot has imported metadata for millions of academic works. Some data is stored as strings (such as author names)
Go to Scholia, search on a name for an author, go to that page, append "/missing" to the URL (e.g., https://scholia.toolforge.org/author/Q6371926/missing) and then start resolving author strings. There are "/missing" pages for topics as well, e.g. as documented here, and venues have them too (example).
Go to https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org, look for an author name and create an item + link existing work items. See Organizing the public data about a researcher.
Use Wikidata lists to curate sets of items, e.g. Journals without main subject or Works with famous authors but no publication date or Famous people with unidentified co-authors or Semi-disambiguated authors.
Add main subjects to all scientific articles. So9q has written python command line tool that enables you to semi-automatically add main subjects.

Past activities

A WikiCite Roadmap of the future of bibliographic data in Wikidata has been discussed
so9q worked on a python bot to follow the Wikimedia eventstream and list DOIs and ISBNs found in Wikipedia articles mentioned in the stream. Next step it to import them if the bot request is approved..

Ongoing imports

Citations between works are being imported by Citation graph bot 2; (no edits since March 2021)
Researchers and works from the University of Leeds (Q503424) are being imported by Sic19;
Daniel Mietchen is adding main subject (P921) to publications (this is not really an import, since we do not have appropriate tooling, e.g. as discussed here);
Mahdimoqri is importing journals from Crossref (Q5188229) (dataset import page);
John Cummings is importing journals from Directory of Open Access Journals (Q1227538) (dataset import page);
valhallasw is importing arXiv ID (P818) using data from Unpaywall (Q38352586) (dataset import page). Help is welcome!
Sic19 is adding education and employment data from ORCID to existing items that lack this information.
Kpjas is importing titles and labels (in Polish) of scientific articles that have been published in Polish scientific journals (currently: Wiadomosci lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960) (Q27713857) and Psychiatria Polska (Q11830678), more to follow). PROBLEM: changing ranks of titles, Quickstatements won't.
Alessandro Marchetti (WMCH) with Researchers in Switzerland is slowly checking all authors. Moslty manual, with imported refinement.
Alexmar983, Bargioni, Epìdosis (as part of the Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche (GWMAB) group) are the main users active on the topic in Italy, see Wikidata:WikiCite/Italy
- The GWMAB is working, mostly manually, on the import of items of researchers affiliated to Italian universities (see project IRIS) which is the main focused driving force of the import strategy in Italy

Properties

See this subpage for more details.

Projects

bib2wikidata is a tool being designed to import bibliographic data in Citation Style Language (Q824708) format into Wikidata.
Open Access Signalling
Citoid
ORCID integration
Proposed citation microformat for Wikipedias and other project content pages
ProveIt - A powerful gadget that adds a visual interface to manage references, which is on its way to being connected to Wikidata
Wikidata:Scholia, Scholia — A web service that displays scholarly profile pages based on Wikidata.
~~Wikidata:SourceMD, SourceMD - Import "source MetaData" via DOI/PMID/PMCID~~ under repair
Fatameh - Import items to Wikidata about papers with content generated from places like EuropePMC, PubMed and Crossref.
zotkat - Zotero export to QuickStatements format for importing in Wikidata
Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData/Citation Typing Ontology - about CiTO annotations in Wikidata

Examples

Here is an example that creates a reference list with the articles

based on the following code:

{{#invoke:Cite | reflist | Q14405740 Q13416617 Q20058533 Q15567682 }}

This results in

Wulf D. Schleip and Mark O'Shea, "Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution", ZooKeys, vol. 66, 66, 4 November 2010, doi: 10.3897/ZOOKEYS.66.683, PubMed ID: 21594030 , PubMed Central ID: 3088416 , Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Stefan Martin Schmid, Bernhard Fügenschuh and Eduard Kissling, "Tectonic map and overall architecture of the Alpine orogen", Swiss Journal of Geosciences, vol. 97, 1, March 2004, doi: 10.1007/S00015-004-1113-X

Rudolf Jung, "Uffenbach, Zacharias Konrad von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 39th volume, vol. 39, 1895

Eric N. Rittmeyer, Allen Allison, Michael C. Gründler, Derrick K. Thompson and Christopher C. Austin, "Ecological guild evolution and the discovery of the world's smallest vertebrate", PLOS One, vol. 7, 1, 11 January 2012, doi: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0029797, PubMed ID: 22253785 , PubMed Central ID: 3256195 , Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic

«ГОСТ» examples:

Q21694395 → Wobst R. Cryptology Unlocked — Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2007. — 554 p. — ISBN 978-0-470-06064-3
<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q21694392"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q207639"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q21694393"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q21694395"></a>
Q21694386 → Luciano D., Prichett G. Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems // The College Mathematics Journal — MAA, Taylor & Francis, 1987. — Vol. 18, Iss. 1. — P. 2–17. — ISSN 0746-8342; 1931-1346 — doi:10.2307/2686311
<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q880582"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q5146471"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q21694383"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q21694386"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q21694384"></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q1813899"></a>

Tasks

For a list of specific tasks and todos (missing data, missing properties, cleanup tasks) see /ToDo

Workflow for profiling researchers

How to create a scholarly profile for a researcher in Wikidata

Consider the platform
1. Visit Wikidata
  1. Wikidata is the database which anyone can edit
  2. The Wikidata community curates this data
2. Consider Wikicite
  1. Wikicite is the community project within Wikidata which curates source metadata
  2. The Wikicite community is a subset of the Wikidata community
3. Consider how anyone accesses data
  1. Scholia is the specialized Wikidata tool for viewing academic profiles of people, topics, universities, etc
    1. If a profile looks good in Scholia, then the data is correctly formatted to be maximally open and accessible in Wikidata and the Semantic Web
    2. Making a profile look good in Scholia is the quickest and easiest way to format data once and for all
  2. the Wikidata Query Service is the general Wikidata tool for viewing groups of Wikidata content
  3. Everyone else, including big tech, big publishing, big government, etc scrape Wikidata and reuse this content, so what is in Wikidata goes everywhere else
Identify or create the Wikidata item for the researcher to profile
1. use basic Wikidata search by the person's name
  1. if the item for the person exists, then use it
  2. if the item does not exist, then create it
    1. follow the instructions for creating a profile for a human in Wikidata:WikiProject Biographies
    2. add enough information to uniquely identify this person by name and a few other characteristics
  3. If there is ambiguity because multiple people have the same name and characteristics, then create a new item. Items can be merged, and merging duplicates is easier to fix than separating mixed items.
Try to add the ORCID, which is a unique scientific identifier
1. visit https://orcid.org/
2. search for the researcher
3. if there is an easy and obvious match, then grab the ORCID
  1. go back to Wikidata
  2. click "add statement", enter ORCID, paste the ORCID, publish
  3. run ORCIDator, a Wikidata tool to import ORCID data into Wikidata
    1. Access through the SourceMD tool - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SourceMD
    2. further documentation at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORCIDator
4. there is often no ORCID, or the ORCID is blank, or there is ambiguity - pass if this is the case
Use the "Wikidata Author Disambiguation tool"
This will match papers indexed in Wikidata to the _target researcher
https://tools.wmflabs.org/author-disambiguator/
1. Enter the _target researcher's name
  1. in 2019 the tool is clunky
  2. try name variations, including initials, or whatever is likely in an academic paper
2. Identify name variations
  1. go back to the Wikidata item for the person
  2. add the variations to the "also known as" field at the top of the item
  3. noting the variations greatly assists ongoing maintenance and profile updates
Wait
1. Wikidata is a nonprofit project of the Wikimedia Community
2. technical infrastructure is modest; in 2019 updates typically take 5-30 minutes
3. Like Wikipedia, Wikidata depends on volunteer contributors of content and donor funding
4. thanks for editing, it is the most valuable contribution anyone can make
View incomplete profile on Scholia
1. enter the person's name - it should autocomplete
2. profile generated based on available data
use Scholia's "missing content" tool
1. this is weird - access by adding "/missing" at the end of the scholia URL
2. the missing tool is actually a collection of tools which search and suggest possible data to add to the profile
3. building out the network of collaborators is easy from here
  1. consider building profiles for top co-authors
  2. consider building profiles for people who commonly cite _target researcher's papers

Possible Data Collaborators

ContentMine presentation, Wikimania 2014. Wikiwish: "An Open Bibliography of science, updated daily" (the first bulletpoint at 27:30)

Some possible Data Collaborators have expressed interest on working on source metadata in Wikidata: others might usefully be approached.

OCLC, which runs WorldCat, is very keen on collaborating with Wikidata; User:Maximiliankleinoclc wrote a letter about the possibilities.

ContentMine has some excellent open software tools, which we could use to let Wikidata answer queries like "List all the review papers ever written on malaria vaccines", "List all the articles that mention Lygodactylus williamsii", "List every paper ever written by John Tuzo Wilson" and "List all the papers cited in Wikipedia articles that have been retracted". They listed "An Open Bibliography of science, updated daily" as a "wikiwish" at Wikimania 2014, apparently unaware that this project has been started at a slightly earlier workshop.

PLOS has an API for RichCitations, which contains metadata on all PLOS papers up through late 2014. Rich Citations is a novel structured format to express each citation as a data element, and it includes a set of useful, additional terms specific to scholarly literature that enable research about the knowledge web citations create. It also includes a display feature much like Reference Tooltips, but linked to a database (which is open licensed), so it can update metainformation. They presented at Wikimania 2014 and are keen to collaborate and share their results with us.

Zotero is interested in the idea of a proofread metadata source. Some Zotero users currently upload to cloud storage; we might build tools to let them upload here, instead. CiteseerX has a large open-licensed database of article metadata, and might want to set up an exchange, but have not responded to e-mails.

The Cochrane Collaboration is developing an API to its metadata (they were contacted about this project in July 2014, so this use case may have helped shape the API). They produce large amounts of non-conventional metadata on works they review, and on works they produce, both of which Wikimedians quote.

Institutional repositories are also increasingly interested in open APIs and linked databases, and seem generally receptive to this project. The university-run academic search engine BASE aggregates and normalizes these repositories and makes its data collection available for non-commercial purposes.

Resources

Statistics

Of the 41,458,756 items which are instance of (P31) of scholarly article (Q13442814)   :

	With property	Without property	Coverage
DOI (P356)	29,596,004	11,862,752	71.4%
PubMed publication ID (P698)	32,036,547	9,422,209	77.3%
main subject (P921)	17,457,870	24,000,886	42.1%
language of work or name (P407)	16,793,065	24,665,691	40.5%
author (P50)	11,606,828	29,851,928	28.0%
author name string (P2093)	38,760,042	2,698,714	93.5%
Only author (P50) , no author name string (P2093)	1,267,160	40,191,596	3.1%
Only author name string (P2093) , no author (P50)	28,420,374	13,038,382	68.6%

Updated: 11 March 2024.

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Subpages

The following subpages belong to the project:

Contact

IRC channel: #wikidata-wpsm (webchat now!) and #wikicite (webchat now!)
Mailing list: wikicite-discuss
Twitter: search for wikicite #WikiCite or @WikiCite

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Historical discussions

There have been historical discussions about Wikidata hosting information about the sources of data.

Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Source_items_and_supporting_Wikipedia_sources - Confirmed that sources could be typical items in Wikidata, and that a separate sort of item only for sources ("S" instead of "Q") need not be created as a space only for sources
Wikidata:Requests for comment/Sourcing requirements for bots - Confirmed that bots set standards for best practices, and that claims made through bots are best backed with sources.
Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/References_and_sources - Confirmed Help:Sources as an official project guideline
m:Wikidata/Notes/Bibliographic data
Wikipedia as the front matter to all research - Discussed role of Wikidata in handling citations across Wikimedia projects