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Wikipedia’s sister projects

Wikidata An item for any notable subject “Claims” (or “statements”) about each item, using clearly-defined “properties” Properties may have “qualifiers” Every item is an “instance of” or “subclass of” another Claims show relationships between items Multi-lingual labels and descriptions Claims may include identifiers

Wikidata Machine-readable (linked, open data) API Toolserver Data dumps – JSON/ XML/ RDF 13,960,493 items (as of 1pm yesterday!) Public domain (CC0)

Wikidata identifiers Every Wikidata item has a UID: e.g. Douglas Adams = Q42 = This, too, is a form of authority control..but remember: only for notable items You can add your catalogues to Wikidata!

Wikidata – Douglas Adams

Wikidata – claims (& relationships)

Wikidata - multilingual

Wikidata - identifiers

ORCID in Wikipedia and Wikidata

ORCID in Wikipedia 1. For article Subjects

ORCID in Wikipedia 2. For Wikipedia contributors

ORCID in Wikipedia 3. For authors in Wikipedia’s citations (potential use)

Wikipedia contributions as works, in an ORCID profile

WP:ORCID shortcut Type this in the English Wikipedia’s search box:

Authority control properties in Wikidata ISNI= P213(x 224,079) VIAF = P214 (x 559,089) GND= P227(x 352,706) LCCN= P244(x 228,615) ISBN-13= P212 (x 8,287 ; also 10,713 x ISBN-10 ) ISSN= P236(x 29,209) ORCID = P496 (x 206 ; also 112 users on en.WP )

Authority control properties in Wikidata ResearcherID National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier (for artists, subjects) US Congress Bio identifier IMDb Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID Many, many more…

Resolver Find the Wikidata page corresponding to a given authority control identifier

Resolver resolver.php?prop=P496&value=

Resolver = bit.ly/WD-Resolver

Beacon Matching two authority control identifiers, using Wikidata

Beacon

NAME: ORCID #DESCRIPTION: Mapping from VIAF identifier IDs to ORCID IDs #CREATOR: Magnus Manske #CREATOR: #HOMEPAGE: #TIMESTAMP: T10:03:54+00:00 #PREFIX: #TARGET: |Q | |Q | |Q | |Q | |Q823885| |Q | |Q | |Q | |Q | |Q | |Q | X |Q |

Beacon |Q | VIAF (P214)|Wikidata|ORCID (P496) todo/beacon.php?prop=496&source=214

Beacon = bit.ly/WD-beacon

In summary… Wikidata stores many types of authority control IDs (including ORCID) IDs are then imported to Wikipedia articles in many languages Wikidata can be used to link IDs in two – or more – authority control systems Wikidata is copyright-free, linked, open data Wikipedia editors can put ORCID iDs on user pages Need to get more ORCIDs into Wikipedia/Wikidata Wikidata welcomes your input!

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