Wikidata:WikiProject VandyCite/training-materials

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Here are some general guidelines for adding bibliographic data to Wikidata. Please check back frequently (or "watch" this page) as I will try to collect emergent ideas and questions as they arise.

Overview of the Task

• Creating a User Accounts
• Identify a Vanderbilt faculty member and check to see whether he/she already has a Wikidata item.
• Create items for journal article and link them to the Vanderbilt faculty member
• Explore tools like Cradle and QuickStatements to expedite creating bibliographic items
• Use Scholia to visualize scholarly communications your faculty member's bibliography, improving data as you can

Creating Wikidata Items

Your initial goal is to add at least article by a Vanderbilt faculty member to Wikidata. First, conduct a check on Wikidata to see whether the article already exists. If so, check whether it is linked and, if not, create the link to the faculty member. If not, create a new item. You do that by clicking on Create New Item from the side menu and then entering a label and description. Before you create a new item, please check that it does not already exist.

• Create a new item for a faculty member at Vanderbilt, using Q42352198 or Antonis Rokas as a model; Thanks to Steve Baskauf's VanderBot, most faculty members will already have existing Q numbers.
• Create a new item for a journal article, using Q57067459 or A pragmatic reading of Karl Barth's theological epistemology as a model
• If necessary, create a new item for a journal, using Q7914442 or Vanderbilt Law Review as a model

Helpful resources

As you become more acquainted with adding and editing bibliographic data on Wikidata, here are some more advanced tools that you will want to explore.

• Wikidata:WikiProject Books/Microdata
• Wikidata:Publication types

Sample SPARQL queries

SPARQL is the query language for Wikidata. Using SPARQL, you can identify complex patterns of data and visualize them in multiple ways. The query interface for Wikidata provides visual tools for writing SPARQL queries. The example queries below are meant to help you get started. You can substitute the name of the journal in the third example to customize the queries to your interests.

• List of faculty and staff at Vanderbilt University with Wikipedia pages
• Bubble graph of theological schools ranked according to the number of their graduates listed in Wikidata
• List of articles published in Theology Today, ordered by date
• List academic departments and faculties (i.e. schools or colleges) having Vanderbilt University as parent organization
• Find researchers/scholars for a department or school at Vanderbilt

Cradle Tool for Creating Wikidata Items

Cradle provides set forms for entering certain kinds of items (like authors, articles, journals, etc.) into Wikidata. If planning to create an item via Cradle, please remember to check first that it does not already exist.

• Cradle tool
• Cradle form for adding authors
• Cradle form for adding articles
• Cradle form for adding journals
• Cradle tool for adding Books (Works)
• Cradle tool for adding Books (Editions or Expressions)

QuickStatements for Batch Entry

While you can certainly enter bibliographic records one-by-one into Wikidata, you will eventually want to turn to batch processing for purposes of scale. A great process for creating batch additions to Wikidata is to collected data in Zotero and to export them using the Zotero extension into triples and then to load those triples into Wikidata using the QuickStatements tool. Just double-check that you are not inadvertently creating duplicates of existing items in Wikidata.

• Zotero extension that exports bibliographic records to Wikidata statements
• QuickStatements tool for batch processing of Wikidata items

Here is an example of a bibliographical information about Helmut Walser Smith's **The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town** expressed in the form of QuickStatements, now already imported as Q89132250 into Wikidata.

CREATE
LAST	P31	Q571
LAST	P50	Q5709784
LAST	Len	"The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town"
LAST	Den	"book published in 2002"
LAST	P2093	"Helmut Walser Smith"	P1545	"1"
LAST	P577	+2003-11-17T00:00:00Z/11
LAST	P212	"978-0-393-32505-8"
LAST	P1476	und:"The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town"

Linking to Open Access Publications

If there is an open access version of an article online, you can use the Wikidata property "full work available at" (Property:P953) to link from Wikidata to the full text of the article. This is a great way to forge connections between Wikidata and our institutional repository.

Scholia for Visualizing Scholarly Communications

Scholia is an open source tool for visualizing scholarly bibliographic data within Wikidata. Scholia provides a way to profile your institution and its scholars and also to make comparisons with other institutions and scholars. For an introduction to Scholia, see Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata.

• Author - In this case, Q5709784 or Helmut Walser Smith
• Institution - In this case, Q29052 or Vanderbilt University
• Publisher - In this case, Q98818 or De Gruyter

Author Disambiguator tool

Many publications have been added to Wikidata by automated processes (bots) and frequently the authors of those publications could not be linked to person items in Wikidata, either because no item existed for the author at the time, or because the bot could not figure out which person item to link to. In those cases, the author is only identified using the author name string property rather than linked to an author item using the author property. The Author Disambiguator tool is a powerful tool for locating articles where an author name string is likely to match a particular author item. The tool presents the user with potential literature matches for the author of interest and the user checks good matches. After all correct matches have been selected, the tool generates a QuickStatements list for submission to change the author name string property to the appropriate author link.

Note: An option is available in Author Disambiguator to log into your Wikimedia account using OAuth instead of QuickStatements. There are some benefits to using that login method, particularly if some of the changes fail due to errors.

The Author Disambiguator tool is also integrated with the Scholia tool. After viewing an author in Scholia, add "/missing" to the end of the URL in the browser search box. This will generate a list of links to potential author names to be used in the Disambiguator tool, both for the author being viewed in Scholia, and also missing coauthors. If the missing coauthors do not have items, you can create them, then use the Author Disambiguator to link to them.

• Scholia "missing" example for William G. Eickmeier

Next Steps

If you would like to use Wikidata to foster scholarly communications at Vanderbilt, here are a few next steps you should consider for support.

• Join the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group.
• Read the From Wikidata to Scholia: Creating Structured-Linked Data to Generate Scholarly Profiles and ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations.