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On 2012-05-31, at 8:39 AM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: > Max et al, > > I'm glad your brought up this opportunity for wikidata to work with OCLC. An > issue that I haven't seen adequately discussed on the list yet is how > citation/source data is expected to be represented in wikidata. > > There is a great opportunity for wikidata to help fix one of the biggest > structured data problems that have afflicted Wikipedia, i.e. the lack of > dedicated support for citations, which are currently represented via > templates (in the best scenario) or raw links (in the most common scenario). > Having citation support built into wikidata with the ability to represent > sources themselves as entities, and associate them with the appropriate > unique identifiers when available (ISBN, DOI, PMID, ArXiV IDs etc) would > allow us to fix many of the outstanding limitations of the current lack of > support for citations in Wikipedia. > > A central, canonical repository for all sources used as citations across > WIkimedia projects (including WikiData itself) would allow us to: > > • simplify the maintenance of citations in WIkimedia projects > • avoid the proliferation of templates in Wikipedia articles and allow > citations to be referred to by unique keys > • expose citation data in both human and machine-readable format (enabling > the possibility to export records in various formats like RIS, bibtex, > EndNote or format them using CSL [1]) > • support collaboration around sources – this is one of the most exciting > (and promising) recent trends in collaboration in Wikipedia > • measure usage of sources across languages and projects (in particular > measuring the use of open access/libre materials) > • allow editors to annotate the relation between sources or between sources > and factual statements using citation typing ontologies such as CiTO [2] > > Some of these goals are the same the WikiCite project is trying to achieve > [3] but there are different communities, projects and organizations out there > that would benefit for a source repository hosted in Wikidata: just to name a > few, acawiki, the altmetrics project, OKFN's open blbliography project. > > Citation data could be seeded from data parsed from Wikipedia itself as well > as open bibliographic databases such as WorldCat (for monographs) or the > CC-BY licensed Mendeley catalogue (for scholarly papers) (licensing issues > are important but IMO not insurmountable). > > Hope to see a good discussion on this topic at the Wikidata summit/hackathon > in the next couple of days. > > Dario > > [1] http://citationstyles.org/ > [2] > http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2008/publications/Shotton_ISMB_BioOntology_CiTO_final_postprint.pdf > [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite > > > On May 29, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > >> Hi Max, >> >> thank you for the pointer! I am very excited about the idea of working >> together with a project like OCLC! We had a discussion on IRC in the office >> hour, and I just want to point to the answers there, as soon as the logs are >> up. >> >> Let us make an appointment for Wikimania, and if you have follow ups, let us >> know! >> >> Cheers, >> Denny >> >> >> >> 2012/5/25 Klein,Max <[email protected]> >> Hello Wikidata Wizards, >> >> >> >> Phoebe Ayers from the Board recommended I talk to you. My name is Max Klein >> and I am the Wikipedian in Residence for OCLC. OCLC owns Worldcat.org the >> world’s largest holder of Library data at 264 million bibliographic records >> about books, journals and other library items. We would really like to >> partner with you as Wikidata is being built, in incorporating our data into >> your project. >> >> >> >> What we can offer: >> >> · WorldCat.org metadata http://www.worldcat.org/ . >> >> o Typically, for any work we have most of the following: title, authors, >> publisher, formats, summaries, editions, subjects, languages, intended >> audience, all associated ISBNs, length, and abstract. >> >> · APIs to this data http://oclc.org/developer/ >> >> o And some other cool APIs like xISBN which returns all the ISBNs of all >> the editions of book on the input of any single one. >> >> · Library finding tools >> >> o When viewing a record on our site, we show you the closest library which >> has that work, and links to reserve it for pick-up. >> >> · The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) http://viaf.org/, >> which is an Authoritative Disambiguation file >> >> o That means that we have certified data on disambiguation of Authors >> >> · WorldCat Identities, an Analytics site >> http://www.worldcat.org/identities/ >> >> o It gives you for Author metadata and analytics: Alternative names, >> significant dates, publication timelines, genres, roles, related authors, >> and tag clouds of associated subjects. >> >> >> >> What’s in it for us: >> >> · We are a not-for-profit member cooperative. Our mission is >> “Connecting people to knowledge through library cooperation.” >> >> · Since I work at the research group, for now this is just a >> research project. >> >> o If at some point this goes live - and you want to - we’d like to >> integrate the “find it at a library near me” feature, that means >> click-throughs for us. >> >> >> >> The ideas: >> >> There are a lot of possibilities, and I’d like to hear your input. These are >> the first few that I’ve can come up with. >> >> · Making infoboxes for each book or author that contains all their >> metadata. >> >> o Ready to incorporate into all language projects. >> >> · Using authority files to disambiguate or link works to their >> creators. >> >> o Solving DABs >> >> · Using our analytics (e.g. author timelines) as Wikidata data types >> to transclude. >> >> o Curating articles with easy to include dynamic analytics >> >> · Populating or creating works/author pages with their >> algorithmically-derived history and details. >> >> o Extremely experimental semantic work. >> >> >> >> I’m roaring and ready to get this collaboration going. I know Wikidata is at >> an early stage, and we are willing to accommodate you. >> >> Send me any feedback or ideas, >> >> >> >> Max Klein >> >> Wikipedia in Residence >> >> [email protected] >> >> +17074787023 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Project director Wikidata >> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 2 | 10963 Berlin >> Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. >> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter >> der Nummer 23855 B. 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