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Integrate paper content with Wikidata at point of publication #480

Open Daniel-Mietchen opened 7 years ago

Daniel-Mietchen commented 7 years ago

One direction I am thinking in is towards integrating the content of publications with Wikidata, which has grown to a knowledge base with over 35 million concepts, including many biomedical ones, and papers about them. For an overview, see https://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/bosc2017-using-wikidata-as-an-open-communitymaintained-database-of-biomedical-knowledge or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot/SPARQL_Examples or https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/venue/Q2635829 or https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/work/Q27940324 .

The latter page has a "Supports the following statement(s)" section at the bottom, which is a new article-level metric much closer to real impact than currently popular ones. We could try to encourage authors to summarize some key outcomes of their research in such Wikidata statements.

Daniel-Mietchen commented 6 years ago

One necessity for making this happen would be to have a public-facing tool that allows to easily add triples to Wikidata, for which I have just started #765.