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Scholia facilitates reference management for documents written in LaTeX by reusing bibliographic metadata available from Wikidata

Reference list created from Wikidata identifiers included in Markdown file and formatted via Citation.js, as shown here. Note the link to Scholia.

Key resources

• Scholia citation tickets in GitHub

Citation goals for 2020

Besides the visualizations, Scholia has a number of additional functionalities e.g. regarding entity recognition or reference management. The latter is due to a Python library that processes BibTeX and thereby provides the ability to cite references in TeX/LaTeX documents through their Wikidata identifier or DOI, such that the citation is generated based on the reference’s metadata as available from Wikidata.

This mechanism, while functional, needs to be made more comprehensive and robust. If that is achieved and its usage scaled up, this would provide a compelling way for the community of BibTeX users to share the curation of their metadata through Wikidata.

We currently have no plans to expand this functionality beyond TeX/LaTeX for other writing environments, but a related JavaScript library, Citation.js (L.G. Willighagen 2019), is being developed with input from the Scholia team, and so is pandoc-wikicite, a filter for the open-source document converter tool Pandoc (Voß 2019). Both libraries can handle formats beyond BibTeX and Wikidata and could help expand a collaborative way of reference metadata management beyond the TeX community. Zotero has also been integrated with Wikidata in a way that allows data exchange in both directions. It can ingest and output files in a variety of formats including BibTeX, so it can serve as a bridge between different writing environments. Another important development in this space is that Citoid, a MediaWiki extension that facilitates reference management on Wikimedia sites other than Wikidata, is scheduled to be adapted to Wikidata in the coming months, which will provide further integration with Wikimedia writing workflows.

—Scholia team, Robustifying Scholia, 2019

Milestones

1. Citation.js plugin for Quickstatements in GitHub
   1. Lars G. Willighagen (12 August 2019). "Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line". PeerJ Computer Science. 5: e214. doi:10.7717/PEERJ-CS.214. ISSN 2376-5992. PMC 7924481. PMID 33816867 . Wikidata Q66720409.
   2. documentation of wiki adaptation in Twitter
2. Citation.js-based conversion of Wikidata-based identifiers in Markdown to full-fledged reference list, complete with link to Scholia