Zotero2Wikidata

Conny

Hey,

can you make it possible in exchange with developers of Wikidata to easy integrate a Book from Zotero to Wikidata please? So People can use Bookitems there to cite content. Sample [1] .

Thank you,
Conny

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6911

Conny

Find https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata%3AProject_chat&type=revision&diff=220492608&oldid=220459679 .

adamsmith

I doubt we'll have the resources for that, but at this point I don't even understand what that would entail, to be honest, and your Wikidata chat post has too much site-specific jargon for me to follow, so you'd have to explain that in laypersons terms a bit more.

zuphilip

Both wikidata and zotero have a very good API, so maybe some kind of workflow integration is possible. However, I do not understand either what you are exactly trying to do. Conny, maybe you can explain your example in further details? Feel free to write in German.

Conny

Thank you for your comments. I try to explain more in detail: In Wikidata an Item can be a book (f. e. [1]). The Item contains statements to describe (instance of book, publisher, ISBN, ...). Later this Item can be used to cite another statement in another Item (f. e. [2]).

In [2] there is a crucible furnace defined (via statement) as a part of foundry (this is not a very good sample, it is a test for referencing). This statement can be cited via [1] with more details as you can read (stated in, chapter, page, ...).

I wished it would be easyier to create [1] out of my zotero library - but maybe it makes more sense to get data via Worldcat. Taking data from Worldcat into Zotero (works at this time) and than create easy Wikidata-Item would be fine for me.

The linked discussion on Wikidata is a feature request, also for easyier creating an Item. If I state book I wished there would appear other relevant statements as a proposal for my filling - that would be obsolete, if there is a way to click an item out of my Zotero Library :D .

There are also some guys working on this [3] , maybe that can help?

Thank you, Conny...

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20008687
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2432040
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool

zuphilip

Do you have any experience (or some other guys at wikidata) with javascript coding? I could imagine a ad-hoc workflow with the Client API form Zotero:

1) Select an item in Zotero
2) Take some informations in Javascript (e.g. in the browser console, bookmarklet), e.g. the title
ZoteroPane.getSelectedItems()[0].getField("title")
3) Do something with these information along the Wikidata API/functions.

(I haven't looked closely at [3].)

Conny

Maybe some of the guys allready did some userscripts [1] ...


[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/User_scripts

Conny

There is a tool called QuickStatements [1] to add content via a command line. It uses WiDaR [2] - maybe this is interessting for the described task wish :D .

[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php
[2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/

Conny

Any interessted people out there?

adamsmith

There's an upcoming workshop/hackathon in Berlin this May on this and related topics. Both zuphilip and I are going to be there. Are you by any chance?

pigsonthewing

We now have such a tool in test [1], thanks to @zuphilip. As suggested above, it outputs commands for QuickStatements (which itself is undergoing active development [2])


[1] https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/zotkat/blob/master/Wikidata QuickStatements.js

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/quick_statements2