Grant Proposal

Date: 22.05.2019

Team: Data Visualization

Author: Ulrike Bath

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Grant Proposal: https://riojournal.com/article/35820/

Main Goal:

• Back-end: make its infrastructure stable, well designed, well documented, and orderly for others to test and examine
• Front-end: priority is conforming to Wikimedia standards for accessibility and internationalization

What is the approach being taken?

1. Back-end development and testing with pilot corpora

• requires systematic testing of Scholia performance across possible use cases or usage scenarios
• optimize the infrastructure

2. Redesign of the Scholia user interface for better usability, e.g. site navigation and internationalization

• requires integration with Wikimedia standards of high usability at a global scale and using accessible design whenever possible
• Wikimedia projects already have multilingual infrastructure into which we can integrate Scholia to share its language interface with other Wikimedia translation efforts, particularly through Wikidata

3. Improving integration with WikiCite curation workflows, e.g. around missing data

• Wikimedia: "citation needed" invite users to contribute, enrich, and critique the available information
• WikiCite project has tools for data curation on Wikidata: Author Disambiguation tool (Smith 2019), SourceMD tool (Manske 2019)
• integrate such tools more closely with Scholia, so that as with Wikipedia, anyone who is reading the information gets an invitation to add or modify content.

4. Enhancing Wikidata-based reference management for scholarly writing workflows

• Scholia has a number of additional functionalities e.g. regarding entity recognition or reference management ** due to a Python library that processes BibTeX and thereby provides the ability to cite references in TeX/LaTeX documents through their Wikidata identifier or DOI, such that the citation is generated based on the reference’s metadata as available from Wikidata
• needs to be made more comprehensive and robust
• If that is achieved and its usage scaled up, this would provide a compelling way for the community of BibTeX users to share the curation of their metadata through Wikidata

5. Establishing metrics to generate usage stats for Scholia pages and key bibliographic properties and items

• currently: basic metrics for usage statistics of Scholia-related Wikidata properties
• goal: routine availability of metrics ** support contributors and partners with the media metrics that institutions use to demonstrate the value they get from engagement

6. Improving documentation of corpus, code, queries, workflows, examples and related resources, as well as limits of Scholia

• documentation priorities include routine usage instructions, lay and accessible interpretations of visualizations, notes on the underlying queries and data sources, and statements about gaps and biases