1. Citing as a public service
Building the sum of all human citations
Dario Taraborelli
@readermeter

2. Who I am
Wikimedia Research
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research

3. Who I am
The altmetrics manifesto
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

4. Use Wikimedia projects to democratize access to
scholarly knowledge; to amplify, redistribute and
reuse scientific products in a broader societal
context.

5. Outline
1. The disappearance of provenance
2. A central repository of bibliographic and citation data
3. Introducing Wikiproject Source Metadata
4. How you can help

6. The disappearance of provenance

7. Goats

8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat#Life_expectancy

13. Linking is a small act of generosity that sends people away from
your site to some other that you think shows the world in a way
worth considering. [...]
[Sources] that are not generous with linking [...] are a stopping
point in the ecology of information. That’s the operational
definition of authority: The last place you visit when you’re
looking for an answer. If you are satisfied with the answer, you
stop your pursuit of it. Take the links out and you think you look
like more of an authority.
D. Weinberger (2012) Linking is a public good
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/02/26/2b2k-linking-is-a-public-good/

16. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42

17. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php
83%

18. Building the sum of all human citations

20. “For society to reap the full benefits from bibliographic endeavours, it is
imperative that bibliographic data be made open — that is available for
anyone to use and re-use freely for any purpose.”
http://openbiblio.net/principles/

21. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite

22. The sum of all human citations
Vision
Technology
Community
Scale
Licensing
Independence

23. The sum of all human citations
INTERNAL INTEGRATION
EXTERNAL INTEGRATION
ALTMETRICS SERVICES
SCHOLARLY DATA
PROVIDERS

24. Wikiproject Source MetaData
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData

25. 1. Source metadata as Wikidata items
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Bibliographic_metadata_for_scholarly_articles_in_Wikidata

26. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15567682

27. 2. Cite by reference

28. 2. Cite by reference

29. 3. Hold all the mappings
DOI PMID PMC ARXIV ID

30. 4. Map and measure source usage
https://www.altmetric.com/details/422759/wikipedia

31. 4. Link concepts and sources
main subject Paedophryne swiftorum [Q2169503]
parent taxon Paedophryne [Q132975]
author Eric N. Rittmeyer [Q20745424]
affiliation Louisiana Museum of Natural History [Q15958804]
location Baton Rouge [Q28218]

32. 5. Link and annotate sources
A is licensed as CC BY
A is paywalled
A was retracted
A cites B
A extends B
A uses method in B
A uses data from B
A disagrees with B
http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2011/02/14/how-to-use-citation-typing-ontology-cito-in-your-blog-posts/

33. Getting involved
● Join Wikiproject Source Metadata
● Develop tools to import references from Wikipedia
● Evangelize the project with your institution
● Donate and curate references or identifier mappings

34. Questions?
dario@wikimedia.org
@readermeter
@wikiresearch

35. Image credits
Anchor Men - Mauretania
https://www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/5161439712
CC0
King Billy of Dalkey Island
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulodonnell/5937678226
CC BY
Boston Daily Advertiser Almanac
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1875_BostonDailyAdvertiser_Almanac.jpg
CC0
"Getting em up" at U.S.Naval Training Camp, Seattle, Washington. ca. 1917 - ca. 1918
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/5505933145
CC0