Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers

This repo hosts materials for a presentation at the Ronin Institute's Lightning talks on 8 December 2022.

It contains the slides in various formats as well as a pre-recording of the talk with some bonus slides and an attempted demo of the scholarly visualization tool Scholia.

This attempt was only semi-successful in that the video was recorded with default settings to capture a single window rather than the entire screen, so once the slide presentation is finished, the audio continues, yet the only thing visible is how the mouse cursor moves over a black screen. Perhaps the best you can make out of this is to take this as a podcast and to start exploring Scholia by yourself. If you want, you can use the same starting page - the topic profile for urban traits, which sits at https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q113468348 .

The video is also available on YouTube via https://youtu.be/TeT-8NnB4zI , without the demo part.

The title of the presentation is: Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers

The abstract:

Wikidata, a cousin of Wikipedia, captures millions of structured, and interconnected, data entries on any domain of knowledge. We used Wikidata to help biologists connect their works on biological traits. At a Aug 2022 workshop at iDiv in Leipzig, Germany, we showed a prototype connecting people, their study organisms, and publications. This prototype helps answer questions like: What other researchers study the hairiness of bees (Apidae)? Or, what conference do bee researchers attend? And, which tools do bee researchers use in their scientific works? Perhaps this prototype can inspire Ronin scholars to explore shared interests, research topics, methods, and co-collaborators.
 

The presentation was first given at the Open Traits Network Workshop in August 2022, as per

Exploring Traits of the Open Traits Network (OTN). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6863639 .