Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys;
Odell, Jere D.; Polley, David E. (2019). Wikidata: Open Linked Data for
Library Publishing (Presentation given at the 2019 Library Publishing
Forum), IUPUI ScholarWorks. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/19396
Wikidata, a collaboratively
edited, open, linked data knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia
foundation, includes a growing collection of open citation data. As of
November 2018, more than 20 million publications and 160 million
citations have been contributed to Wikidata (http://wikicite.org/statistics.html).
Many of these data items have been added by bots that contribute data
from open bibliographic databases, including PubMed Central, and from
data made available by Crossref and the Initiative for Open Citations
(I4OC). Although this approach may be the most efficient way to build a
large corpus of open citation data, many scholarly journals will be
missed. Journals that cannot meet the requirements of a Crossref
contract (for financial or technical reasons) will be invisible in
growing open citation network. The journals that are likely to be missed
are also those that have not been well-served by for-profit publishers
and large university presses–including print journals that flipped to
open access and journals in fields that are unfamiliar with or
unconvinced of the value of a Crossref DOI (e.g., law reviews and some
arts and humanities journals). In this presentation we demonstrate how a
library publisher can contribute bibliographic data to Wikidata. By
using both manual and batch-processing methods, we contributed complete
runs for selected journals hosted on our library’s instance of Open
Journal Systems. We share our methods for contributing data for journals
that mint DOIs and for journals that do not. We also provide a
demonstration of the short-term benefits of building this collection in
Wikidata and reflect on the challenges of including Wikidata in a
library-publishing program.
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