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Uses

Scholia is useful for purposes including the following:

1. Viewing the scholarly profile of an individual, organization, or other academic concept
   1. Use the simple suggested queries in Scholia to see information about an individual, organization
   2. Use Scholia as a start into more complicated queries in Wikidata
2. Publishing the public, free and open data which are the basis of scholarly profiles
   1. Input data into Wikidata manually for individual people, etc.
   2. Import an entire dataset into Wikidata to share profiles for groups of individuals and organizations
3. Remixing and reusing this public information for any purpose!
   1. Wikidata and Scholia are free and open projects. Query for the parts that you want and download. Enjoy!
   2. Make the world a better place!

Viewing profiles in Scholia

Queries in Scholia

Scholia is for anyone who is interested in scholarly publications, the people who write them, the organizations where anyone does research, and the web of relationships between all these and other academic topics.

Popular queries in Scholia include profiles of individual researchers to see their publication list, profiles of universities to see an aggregate publication list of all faculty, and topical profiles like lists of publications featuring a particular subject.

Since Scholia pulls from Wikidata and Wikidata contains data from all fields, Scholia and Wikidata have the unusual position of being able to remix academic profiles with any public social information.

From Scholia into Wikidata

Scholia is a Wikidata front end which takes a name and returns a series of academic visualizations in return. Anyone who wants to see the query can pass from Scholia into the Wikidata Query Service and see the SPARQL (Q54871) language text of the query.

Adding information for Scholia

Scholia is one project among many in Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData and in the WikiCite community initiative. Those projects each host their own discussions and documentation which will be more thorough than what is here.

Automated tools

Most of the data which Scholia presents came into Wikidata through import tools. Anyone may use these:

• SourceMD - input a DOI, PMID, or other identifier of a scholarly article and SourceMD creates a Wikidata item for that publication
• ORCIDator - imports information from ORCID into a Wikidata item for a person. Also, takes a person's publication list from ORCID and imports that through Source MD

Manually

Anyone may edit Wikidata items manually. This is useful for understanding what the automated tools do or for adding other information which the tools failed to import or are otherwise not able to handle.

Let others know that you are using Scholia

You can do this in various ways, e.g. by adding Template:User Scholia to your user page, either by way of {{User Scholia}} or by adding "Scholia|" to your Babel Tool Userboxes entry.