2023:Program/Research, Science, and Medicine/DSGJU9-WikiCite and Scholia for medicine and beyond

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Title: WikiCite and Scholia for medicine and beyond

Speakers:

Lane Rasberry

Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian-in-residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. His professional interests include popular science, consumer protection, civic engagement, access to health information, clinical research, the Open Movement, data science, LGBT+ rights, and Wikimedia projects. Photo by Lane Rasberry, CC-By-SA-4.0. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lane_Rasberry_February_2019_02.jpg

Pretalx link

Etherpad link

Room: Room 310

Start time: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:45:00 +0800

End time: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:15:00 +0800

Type: No (pretalx) session type id specified

Track: Research, Science, and Medicine

Submission state: confirmed

Duration: 30 minutes

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Presentation language: en

Abstract & description

Abstract

Scholia is the Wikimedia scholarly profiling service which connects Wikipedia editors and everyone else to scholarly literature. Join the session to share the vision of how Wikimedia can out-compete similar commercial projects, use medical data to improve access to knowledge in the humanities and civics, and change the world with library cataloging.

Description

slides Scholia is the Wikimedia scholarly profiling service. https://scholia.toolforge.org/ It presents content from the WikiCite project, which is the single-most popular Wikidata initiative in terms of number of contributors and amount of content. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite

There are a number of competing commercial projects in this space including Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. Additionally there are nonprofit initiatives developing this sector including Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex.

Perhaps the world’s most organized research publication data is in medicine because of the huge global investment in the sector. The index PubMed is extraordinarily organized to present medical papers as other connected databases. Wikidata takes lessons learned from PubMed to curate data in the humanities and civics to make knowledge organized and accessible in new unprecedented ways.

Among developers in this space, success seems likely - we have Scholia as a service increasing access to knowledge right now, but even if this service is replaced, engaging with it now gives the Wikimedia community a place in the global negotiation about values and ethics in access to data. Many ethical puzzles arise simply from collecting this data, and this talk will survey this information ecosystem and inform all attendees enough to be able to add thoughtful comment to the ethical discourse.

Further details

Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?

Wikimedia LGBT+ has discussed many of the challenges with this content collection about biographical data, including when and how to apply demographic labels such as gender and sexuality to biographies in Wikidata.

Additionally, this talk will include descriptions of how the Wikidata community has translated best practices from the wealthy medical sector into less funded sectors in the humanities and civics.

Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?

• Onsite in Singapore
• Remote online participation, livestreamed
• Remote from a satellite event
• Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
• Pre-recorded and available on demand