New subject: [Wikitech-l] An early preview from WikiCite

1 Jun 2016


      Hey all,
Wikimedia Deutschland and the Wikimedia Foundation hosted the WikiCite
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016 event in Berlin last week,
bringing together a large group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Participant_list of
Wikidatans, Wikipedians, librarians, developers and researchers from all
over the world.
The event built a lot of momentum around the definition of data models,
workflows and technology needed to better represent source and citation
data from Wikimedia projects, Wikidata in particular.
While we're still drafting a human-readable report
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Report, I thought I'd share
a preview of the notes from the various workgroups, to give you a sense of
what we worked on and to let everyone join the discussion:
Main workgroups
Modeling bibliographic source metadata
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_1
Discuss and draft data models to represent different types of sources as
Wikidata items
Reference extraction and metadata lookup tools
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_2
Design or improve tools to extract identifiers and bibliographic data from
Wikipedia citation templates, look up and retrieve metadata
Representing citations and citation events
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_3
Discuss how to express the citation of a source in a Wikimedia artifact
(such as a Wikipedia article, a Wikidata statements etc.) and review
alternative ways to represent them
(Semi-)automated ways to add references to Wikidata statements
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_4
Improve tools for semi-automated statement and reference creation
(StrepHit, ContentMine)
Use cases for source-related queries
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_5
Identify use cases for SPARQL queries involving source metadata. Obtain a
small open licensed bibliographic and citation graph dataset to build a
proof-of-concept of the querying and visualization potential of source
metadata in Wikidata.
Additional workgroups
Wikidata as the central hub on license information on databases
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_6
Add license information to Wikidata to make Wikidata the central hub on
license information on databases
Using citations and bibliographic source metadata
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_7
Merge groups working on citation structure and source metadata models and
integrate their recommendations
Citoid-Wikidata integration
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_8
Extend Citoid to write source metadata into Wikidata
We're opening up the wikicite-discuss@wikimedia.org mailing list to anyone
interested in interacting with the participants in the event (we encouraged
them to use the official wikidata list for anything of interest to the
broader community). Phabricator also has a dedicated tag
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikicite/ for related initiatives.
The event was generously funded
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Funding by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Crossref.
We'll be exploring the feasibility of a follow-up event in the next 6-12
months to continue the work we started in Berlin and bring in more people
than we could host due to funding/capacity.
Best,
Dario
on behalf of the organizers