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WikiProject Scholia is a community project to

present Scholia, which is a scholarly profiling (Q109678085) tool based in Wikidata
support researchers in sharing information to profile in Scholia, such as through the WikiCite project
to organize technical development of Scholia

About

Scholarly profiling

"Scholarly profiling" is the practice of generating summaries of research information. Typical scholarly profiling activities include presenting all the research publications on a topic, by a researcher, from a university, or in a journal. Easier access to new technology in the late 2010s enabled new options for collecting large research metadata sets, sorting them with automation, and presenting them with data visualization. By using the Wikipedia platform to bring together contributors, it became possible to divide the huge task of sorting academic articles by person, university, topic, time range, journal, or in many other ways as individual researchers or teams desired. Through this process, Wikidata contributors have been able to curate research data in ways that compare favorably to the content offerings of complementary or competing scholarly profiling projects such as ORCID iD (Q51044), Semantic Scholar (Q22908627), Google Scholar (Q494817), Scopus (Q371467), Web of Science (Q1201886).

The earliest forms of scholarly profiling simply listed research publications. Beyond just listing publications, scholarly profiling in Wikidata also gives credit to researchers for their research projects, awards, software, datasets, and algorithms. Wikidata further presents networks of research collaborators, charts of related topics, geographical maps of places featured in research, and presentations of other information which becomes easier to manage when citation metadata is available.

Scholia

Scholia is a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions using Wikidata, the community-curated database supporting Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. Scholia is being developed in the framework of the larger WikiCite initiative, which seeks to index bibliographic metadata in Wikidata about resources that can be used to substantiate claims made on Wikidata, Wikipedia or elsewhere.

WikiCite

WikiProject Scholia

Wikidata:Scholia described above is a product page. The target audience for that page is end users wanting profiles or the instructions to create profiles. This WikiProject is for those who go beyond only being readers, and who contribute user generated content or engage with Scholia in the wiki way.

Key resources

Scholia, official website of the tool
Wikidata:Scholia, main documentation page
source code on GitHub
Wikidata:WikiProject Scholia, this page, the community space for discussion and development

Items

A poster explaining the basics of Scholia

Main items

Scholia (Q45340488)
instances and subclasses of
- works, e.g.
- events, e.g.
  - academic conference (Q2020153)

Properties

Scholia profiles academic research source metadata alone or with related data.

Main properties

Other properties

Participants

Users interested in Scholia are invited to sign up here and to also put the {{User Scholia}} user box onto their user page.

[+] Add yourself to the list

The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|Scholia}}