Hi!

Just today my pull request was merged in which allows wider set of OAuth libraries to authenticate against Wikipedia/Wikidata. This means it is possible to easier develop nice interfaces around Wikidata. For example, interfaces which allow better managing of bibliographic data.

One such project is bib2wikidata:

https://github.com/mitar/bib2wikidata

The idea is simple: you copy-paste on the left side bibliographic entries in in preferably any format, we detect the format, parse it, display on the right side the parsed structure. You can then verify and if you want to change something, you edit the left side in your native format you pasted in. Once you are satisfied with the right side, you press import and it goes to Wikidata.

This is the idea. It is not yet developed. (I got stuck because of the OAuth limitations.)

Also we had a hackathon a month ago in SF on creating schema then for Wikidata. You can see report here:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Bibliographic_metadata_for_scholarly_articles_in_Wikidata

So this is then how we would map bibliographic data to Wikidata entries.

If anyone is interested in helping here, that would be great. For example, we need now some JavaScript code which would take text as input and display it mapped into those fields we will send to Wikidata. We can start with one input format, but it would be good to support multiple in the future.

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