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Scholia curation workflows are the activities in which users, typically through crowdsourced contributions, convert bulk data uploads to Wikidata into enriched data for profiling in Scholia. Examples of useful curation include author disambiguation, topic tagging, adding identifiers, or evaluating a corpus to describe the extent of its completeness.

Key resources

• Scholia workflow tickets in GitHub

Workflow goals for 2020

When information is lacking in Wikimedia projects, signals such as "citation needed" invite users to contribute, enrich, and critique the available information. In the Wikimedia way, as Scholia presents and visualizes information, it also identifies content gaps. Currently, Scholia is primarily a tool for visualization of Wikidata content. Separately, the WikiCite project has tools for data curation on Wikidata, such as the Author Disambiguation tool (Smith 2019) to replace the strings of unidentified author names with the Wikidata identifiers of the respective authors, or the SourceMD tool (Manske 2019) for ingesting source metadata. We propose to integrate such popular existing tools more closely with Scholia, so that as with Wikipedia, anyone who is reading the information gets an invitation to add or modify content.

—Scholia team, Robustifying Scholia, 2019

Update for 2019

In 2019, development of the Author Disambiguator tool proceeded and included a closer integration with Scholia, primarily by way of adding links from various Author Disambiguator pages to corresponding Scholia profiles or their missing pages, which in turn link back to Author Disambiguator pages.

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  Screenshot of the Author Disambiguator, with "[missing]" links that point to the missing pages of the corresponding Scholia profiles
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  Scholia's missing page for an author, with links to Author Disambiguator pages