Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Notes/Using Wikidata for Author Disambiguation
Title: Using Wikidata for Author Disambiguation
Speaker(s)[edit]
Name or username: Adam Bannister
Contact (email, Twitter, etc.): adam@zbmath.org, @atomcan
- Useful links
zbMath: https://zbmath.org/
Beacon: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php
e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php?prop=496&source=1556&site= (P496=ORCID id; P1556 = zbMath author ID)
Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/
Abstract[edit]
Explain the challenge of author disambiguation due to homonyms and synonyms. Focus on academic publications in Mathematics. Show the sort of data possible to obtain from Wikidata. This includes getting external links to other sources. Demonstrate the available sources that can all be linked in order to enrich author profiles and help with disambiguation. Explain the problems with the data: mistakes, corrections, changes and the having to backlink all other sources that you received from Wikidata. Show the techniques used for getting matches with examples of how much information one can get out of a single match regarding meta data and other external links.
Collaborative notes of the session[edit]
Still early days for zbMath
Questions / Answers[edit]
How are you using ORCID iDs?
Are using, but hampered by those profies that do not have public data.