ORCID for Wikidata: A workflow for matching author and publication items in Wikidata
Channel: SWIB
Date: 26/11/2020

Talk by Eva Seidlmayer, ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences, Germany

In the context of a bibliometric project, we retrieved social context information on authors of scientific publications from Wikidata in order to import it into the metadata of our dataset. While we were able to capture about 95% of the requested scholarly publications in Wikidata, only 3% of the authors could be assigned and used for retrieval of social context information. One reason probably was that authors in general are rarely curated in Wikidata. Whilst research papers account for 31.5% of the items, it is only 8.9% which represent humans in general, not even researchers in particular (according to Wikidata statistics, January 2020). Another reason we observed is the frequent absence of relations between the Wikidata item of a publication and the Wikidata item of the author(s), although the author is already listed.
To fill the gap and in order to improve the foundation for bibliographic analysis in general, we established a workflow for matching authors and scholarly articles by making use of the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) database. The presentation will demonstrate how we harvest information on publications and their authors from ORCID, how we query Wikidata for existing items that are also listed in ORCID, and how we perform the matching. Finally, it will be illustrated how the initial research project benefits from the presented enrichment of bibliometric details in Wikidata.

Streamed live on 2020-11-26 at SWIB20 Conference (23 - 27 November 2020)
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