Wikidata as a FAIR and multilingual interface to the research ecosystem

This repo hosts a contribution to the Frühjahrstreffen 2024 der Fachgruppe Datenbanken of the Gesellschaft für Informatik that is taking place on 11-12 March 2024 in Jena, Germany. 

Title

Wikidata as a FAIR and multilingual interface to the research ecosystem

Abstract

The practice of data sharing is slowly but surely reaching further and deeper into scholarly realms, and an increasing share of such data meets at least some of the FAIR Principles. On that basis, it is increasingly possible for research data to be found and used by people and processes with no close relationship to the original research context, which opens up both opportunities and challenges. This contribution focuses on opportunities, specifically those provided by integrating research resources with Wikidata, a FAIR and public-domain database providing general reference information spanning all domains of scholarly knowledge. Aligned with thousands of databases and with terminologies in many languages, it can serve as a multilingual interface to the research ecosystem, including to resources originally available in a very small number of languages or even just one. 

Figure sources

• The map of science is from Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Bettencourt L, Chute R, Rodriguez MA, et al. (2009) Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4803. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803
• The Wikidata query for clinical trials (Q30612) with statements for medical condition treated (P2175) in Hindi is from Rasberry L, Tibbs S, Hoos W, Westermann A, Keefer J, Baskauf SJ, Anderson C, Walker P, Kwok C, Mietchen D. medRxiv 2022.04.01.22273328. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.01.22273328

Pointers to further resources

• https://wikidata.org
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  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
  • Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
• https://scholia.toolforge.org
  • Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata 
    
    • Scholia for Software 
• https://ordia.toolforge.org
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• https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de
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• Wikidata:In one page
• Representing COVID–19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata
  • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
• Scholia - An open-source profiling tool to explore scholarly knowledge via open data from Wikidata 
• WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
• Visualizing the research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia 
• Centralized and Distributed Data Spaces: Insights from Dashboarding Invasion Biology 
• WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
• Bridging Science Art and Community in the New Arctic through Wikimedia projects
• Scholia about Wikidata
• Scholia about Scholia