Wikidata:WikiProject Scholia/Robustifying/Outreach

Template:Scholia (Q55622789) on the article for Abiy Ahmed Ali (Q50365049) on the Serbian Wikipedia

Integration of Scholia refers to integrating Scholia profiles more closely with Wikipedia articles and relevant other pages in the Wikimedia platform and beyond. For example, biographies of researchers in any language of Wikipedia could link to Scholia profiles to present readers with that person's bibliography, and Scholia itself could link into Wikidata tools to support users in curating content.

Key resources edit

Outreach goals for 2020 edit

Currently most users access Scholia by navigating to the Scholia homepage. The longer term intent is that Scholia is a tool which complements other research workflows, and because of this, we need to make Scholia accessible wherever users are doing relevant research. This includes in Wikipedia articles, and for example, there could be a link or button to Scholia on the biography of a scientist which links to their Scholia profile and list of publications.
Some Wikipedia language communities, like those for English, German, French, and certain other more developed projects, are cautious about adopting new features. Other Wikipedia language communities, like the experimental Swedish language community and many smaller Wikipedias, are more willing to adopt new technology to get quicker better access to content despite bugs in code and less-reviewed information.
For this project identify a strategy of making Scholia accessible outside of its own platform and document the same. This should include experimental and documented integration into some languages of Wikipedias in some classes of articles. In addition to distribution through Wikipedia, experiment with the sharing of Scholia links in any other public platforms. In selecting other platforms, consider that the ideal outlet will be one where it is possible to measure and observe a user response.
—Scholia team, Robustifying Scholia, 2019

Timeline edit

Outreach activities by the Scholia team edit

Video of a presentation for Cost MOBILISE Wikidata Workshop 2020 (Q84943795) in February 2020 in Warsaw

Scholia poster for the Wikimania 2019 Hackathon

The formatting here is to be adapted to the "What others say" section below and possibly merged into it, with some indication as to whether any of these activities originated from the Scholia team itself or from someone else.

2019-05-02: published the grant proposal for the Robustifying Scholia project
2019-05-17 till 2019-05-19: attended the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 taking place in Prague (Q1085)
2019-05-03 presented at Program for Cooperative Cataloging workshop
co-organized workshops around visualizing clinical trials
- general idea: ingest ClinicalTrials.gov and integrate it with Wikidata and WikiCite curation workflows
- refine current data for Duke University, University of Virginia, and Vanderbuilt
- also historic or evergreen data for some universities in India to pilot language translation
attended Wikimania 2019
- Scholia: A web application for scholarly data
- Integrating Wikidata into Education
has submitted session proposals for WikidataCon, as per this overview
- Cheminformatics to improve Wikidata on chemical compounds (accepted)
- Workshop: Scholia for Communities (not accepted)
presented at Bridging Science, Art, and Community in the New Arctic
has presented Scholia as part of tutorials
- https://openrisknet.github.io/workshop/OntologyWorkshop/scholia.html
has run sessions at WikiCon North America
- Building Scholia profiles
- Limits of Wikidata
2019-03-22 presented Scholia as GUI for scholarly biographies, around the Dutch Wikidata:Wiki-wetenschappers project, at Researcher meets Curator, Maastricht, The Netherlands
reached out to the chemistry community
- 2019-10-16: Wikidata and Scholia as a Hub Linking Chemical Knowledge, at Beilstein Open Science, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
- 2019-09-07: Examples on Using Wikidata to Support Nanoinformatics Projects, webinar, USA NanoWG, September 7 2019
- 2019-08-25: Blog post Finding potential reviewers using Scholia
2019-11-28: Published a new release of the Scholia code
2019-12: Published "Adoption of the Citation Typing Ontology by the Journal of Cheminformatics" by Egon Willighagen
2020-01-10: Presentation at the Central Virginia Data Librarian Meetup
2020-05-27: Online talk "How to contribute to Scholia in 10 easy steps" by Finn Årup Nielsen at WikiLunch, #vBIB20. slides
2020-07-05: Online talk about Scholia by Finn Årup Nielsen at workshop Wikidata and Scholia for the Leibniz Research Alliabce Open Science organized by Konrad Förstner
2020-08-21: Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina, presentation "Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective" with Scholia demo as part of the workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research"

What others say about Scholia edit

Ideally, Scholia could have seamless integration into the Wikimedia platform. If this happened, end users would refer to "Scholia" as part of (and in some contexts synonymous to) "Wikipedia" or "Wikidata", and expect that Scholia's content be part of what is routine in the Wikimedia platform. Media mentions and recognition contribute to the acceptance of Scholia as an integrated part of the Wikimedia platform.

2021-08-17: "Scholia … provides a list of associated publications by year, a map and word cloud of topics, an interactive diagram of co-authors, and a list of citing authors, all based on citations in Wikidata. Scholia and related tools provide a possible open alternative for expensive and proprietary scholarly metrics tools that are currently sold by major companies"
2020-06-11: "wikipedia/wikidata have assembled and tracked a ridiculously detailed amount of information on my academic career. Very cool, thanks"
2020-04-30: "Open research profiles with Wikidata and Scholia for the LRA Open Science" — project to feed Scholia profiles for a set of German research organizations
2020-04-29: "Scholia is distinctive in that the data are free and open and not monetized in any way."

Feedback from Wikimedia Tunisia on Scholia

2020-04-09: Wikimedia Tunisia publishes detailed feedback on Scholia
2020-02-14: "Que incrível essa ferramenta Scholia para visualização de dados do Wikiverse", in response to tweets about a Scholia slide presented at a WikiCite Satellite event
2020-01-22: "I will go to my grave plugging @WDScholia and @wikidata.", with "This set up is so cool! So clean and streamlined." amongst the responses
2019-12-20: Wikidata, WikiCite y Scholia como herramientas para un corpus de datos bibliográficos enlazados. Curación y estructuración de la producción científica de los investigadores del IATEXT (Q79377127)
2019-12-20: Q392754: Criação de perfis académicos com Wikidata e Scholia – projecto-piloto (Q79377124)
2019-12-05: "I keep getting amazed by the progress of @WDScholia"
2019-12-05: "Thank you @WDScholia" (in reaction to us adding a favicon)
2019-11-13: "the wonderful Scholia" added to GitHub list "Awesome Python Applications"
2019-11-10: Tweet from participant in the Scholia session at WikiConference North America 2019: "Nice"
2019-11-10: Scholia featured in a presentation at WikiConference North America
2019-10-30: Eigenfactor.org, Very cool stuff"
2019-10-26: Scholia featured in talk at WikidataCon (tweet)
2019-10-24: Wikidata Conference card game presented at WikidataCon — Scholia is featured on one of the 60 cards
2019-10-22: Scholia featured in talk at Biodiversity Next conference (audience reaction: "A fantastic and impressive Scholia profile")
2019-10-15: Open Publishing Awards, Wikidata wins and Scholia featured: "The impact of Wikidata is developing but it already underpins a range of tools and systems such as Scholia"
2019-10-14: Scholia featured in an article published in Wellcome Open Research
2019-06-20: Wikidata-IATEXT, WikiCite y Scholia en los Wikidata Days 2019: contribución al corpus de datos bibliográficos de Wikidata
2019-06-18: Scholia featured in Lightning talk at Northeast Institutional Repository Day
2019-06-13: Scholia is at the core of a Wikidata editathon at the American Theological Library Association annual meeting
2019-06-10: The Virginia part of the Scholia team is profiled
2019-05-28: Scholia: perfilando la investigación
2019-05-11: Scholia featured in talk at Linked Data in Libraries conference
2019-04-04: Generating Nova SBE scholarly profiles using Wikidata and Scholia – a pilot project