Upload Divinity books and book chapters that have DOIs

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Charlotte sent me two Excel spreadsheets on 2022-01-25 with DOIs. Need to use the script for pulling data from CrossRef, then VanderBot to do the upload to Wikidata. The spreadsheets are in the divinity-law folder under publications, then wikidata, projects in DiSC SharePoint.

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The relevant script is at github/linked-data/publications/crossref/retrieve_doi_data.ipynb

Change the file path by uncommenting to use the data directory github/vandycite/divinity_law/

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Issues discovered:

• [ ] There is a publication type "other": https://doi.org/10.5040/9780300261295.0009.CH002
• [x] Books are basically not going to be uploadable until there is a way to look up the publisher Q ID. Need to check the work of Charlotte on adding Journals -- I guess that was manual, but is there a way to get a publisher list from ISSNs somehow? Did we do that? (There's a journals-publisher.csv file in vandycite/journals/ but can't remember how we created it.
• [x] There seems to be a fairly common occurrence where "authors" of book chapters are listed in the CrossRef metadata as editors. So the script fails for lack of authors. There probably needs to be some kind of separate algorithm for editors since I don't think there is a editor name string property like there is for authors -- they would all have to be disambiguated with Q IDs.
• [x] Some book chapters are coming up as monographs. There's a class for them, but where do they fall in the hierarchy of nested works???

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Monographs seem to behave just like books.

Added feature to look up publishers.

Added features to handle editors, but need to implement Chris' suggestions for Editor name strings (use author name string with subject has role = "editor".

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Ran the script, but there are a lot of book chapters that don't have either authors or editors listed by CrossRef. Not sure how to handle this. Also, need to talk to Charlotte about how to handle linking the book chapters to the books, or to confirm that they actually should be considered separate works if it's a single-author book.

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Here's what Chris B. told me about how he handles books P31 in a 2022-02-14 email:

Yes, I use Q571 for books (well, books that haven’t been edited – for edited volumes, I use Q1711593, and then other things for specialized items like dictionaries and encyclopedias). I use “book” rather than “academic writing,” written work,” etc., because I see it as a “common sense” (and common) description of the thing I’m describing. “Academic writing” seems to require a judgment about an item’s “academic” qualities, and “written work” seems more abstract (it includes books, but it includes lots of other things). But this has merely been my decision: if something else makes more sense to the group, I’ll use it instead.

I use “version, edition, or translation” partly because of the page number issues I mentioned last Monday, and partly because it’s more “FRBR-friendly.” But I didn’t want to use only “version, edition, or translation” because I don’t think that provides a precise enough description of what the thing is.

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Created or verified Q IDs for books/monographs that have chapters with separate authors. Followed up with adding the chapters.

Completed with https://github.com/HeardLibrary/vandycite/commit/3ee9591cd25372967f3a51f3f51f651874e75a44