Wikidata:WikiProject Linked Data for Production/2020-November-9 Wikidata Working Hour

November 9, 2020 Wikidata Working Hour

Monday, November 9, 2020 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 16:00 UTC / 5pm CET

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Resources from LD4 Affinity Group Call on the Author Disambiguator Tool

• Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fCWegq87FPjevHxaOV5r8NX3F0sRU8VH/view?usp=sharing
• Recording: https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/pL0hj7R9gHBInci379iXrMPFafsrFPJMoMykpJVeR0xXneOq1UF5H3x10iVTZxfL.kPz7fParChfA5-qs?startTime=1604422187000
• Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData
• Author Disambiguator Tool
• Code: https://github.com/arthurpsmith/author-disambiguator
• Wikidata documentation for Author Disambiguator

Ways to Contribute

Add missing authors to scientific journal articles on COVID-19 using the Author Disambiguator Tool

1. Items for scientific journal articles on COVID-19 (main subject (P921): SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695), COVID-19 (Q84263196), COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)) that have authors as strings are available on this spreadsheet. Add your initials in the "Initials" column for the items you are working on. The spreadsheet is based on the this query--

The following query uses these:

• Items: SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695)   , COVID-19 (Q84263196)   , COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)   , scholarly article (Q13442814)   

• Properties: instance of (P31)   , main subject (P921)   , author name string (P2093)   , publication date (P577)   

  SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?pdate
  {
    VALUES ?topics { wd:Q82069695 wd:Q84263196 wd:Q81068910 } 
    ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q13442814.
    ?item wdt:P921 ?topics.
    ?item wdt:P2093 ?authorstring .
    OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P577 ?pdate }
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" } .
  }
  ORDER BY ?pdate
  LIMIT 1000
  

Try it!

2. Search for the author by first and last name found in author name string (P2093) in the Author Disambiguator Tool.

3. Choose "Fuzzy match" and then click "Look for author" button.

4. Potential publications are found. Under "Group 1" click "Uncheck all," so that you can verify author matches.

5. Look at each publication to determine if the publication author matches the Wikidata item the tool has found in the "Match?" column. Clicking the matched name string link takes you to a page with a link to the Wikidata item as well as the author's publications. If the tool has not found any matches for a Wikidata item, you can check that an item for your author doesn't exist and create one.

6. If you can verify that the publication belongs to the match, click the checkbox beside the name string in the "Authors (identified)" column.

7. Once you have gone through the publications, choose the QID for the author to match the publications within the "Potential author items" section or paste in the QID for the author item that you created.

8. Click "Link works to selected author" button.

(If the paper you are working on also has authors who already have author items, you can also use the Author Disambiguator Tool to link them up with more of their papers in Wikidata.)

Add missing authors to scientific journal articles on COVID-19

1. Items for scientific journal articles on COVID-19 (main subject (P921): SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695), COVID-19 (Q84263196), COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)) that have authors as strings are available on this spreadsheet. Add your initials in the "Initials" column for the items you are working on. The spreadsheet is based on the this query--

The following query uses these:

• Items: SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695)   , COVID-19 (Q84263196)   , COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)   , scholarly article (Q13442814)   

• Properties: instance of (P31)   , main subject (P921)   , author name string (P2093)   , publication date (P577)   

  SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?pdate
  {
    VALUES ?topics { wd:Q82069695 wd:Q84263196 wd:Q81068910 } 
    ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q13442814.
    ?item wdt:P921 ?topics.
    ?item wdt:P2093 ?authorstring .
    OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P577 ?pdate }
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" } .
  }
  ORDER BY ?pdate
  LIMIT 1000
  

Try it!

2. Search for the author names found in author name string (P2093) in Wikidata to see if an item already exists for the author.

• At this point, it may be useful to search for an open-access copy of the article, or to search the article title in your library's catalog to see if you have access to a PDF or other full text, because the article may contain an individual author's ORCiD ID or affiliations. These may help you to confirm a match between an author name string and a Wikidata item. Or, you may want to add this information to a new Wikidata item.

3. If you find an item, proceed to step 4. If you don't find an item, create one for the author. See Stanford's Wikidata Working Group's data model for faculty to find additional appropriate properties to add to the item.

Properties for describing faculty and researchers

From: Wikidata:WikiProject_Stanford_Libraries/Data_models#Academic_faculty

Label	Identifier	Data type	Description	Example value
employer	P108	Item	An institution employing the person.	Stanford University (Q41506)
work location	P937	Item	The geographic location of where the person is employed.	Stanford (Q173813)
field of work	P101	Item	The person's area of study.	All academic disciplines in Wikidata
educated at	P69	Item	Where the person was educated, at any level.
occupation	P106	Item	An activity the person engages in, whether in a career context or more generally.	university teacher (Q1622272), researcher (Q1650915)
official website	P856	URL	The official website for a person.	ex. https://profiles.stanford.edu/judith-frydman

4. Add author (P50) with the Wikidata item you have found or created for the author and qualify it with series ordinal (P1545) and the author's position. If the author's name appears differently on the publication than on the author's label, you can add the name as it appears on the publication using the qualifier object named as (P1932).

5. Remove the author's name string statement from the author name string (P2093).

Resources

Cradle Templates

The Cradle Tool provides you with a template to create certain types of items. There are templates for adding authors, journals, and articles that you may find helpful. Note that the template does not allow you to add references, so once you have created your item using the template, you'll need to add references to it.

Describing People

• Stanford Libraries page on people including general properties and properties for describing more specific groups like faculty and researchers
• Wikidata's living people policy

Adding References to Wikidata

• References Help Page
• LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group slides on references
• Stanford Libraries page on references including a list of properties used with references
• DuplicateReferences and currentDate gadgets

Gadgets and user scripts

• Gadgets and users scripts you may find useful for editing Wikidata and how to add them