diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 0792c33..438e22c 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Use Scholia and Wikidata to find scientific literature -According to [WikiData](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia), +According to [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia), > Scholia is a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions using Wikidata, the community-curated database supporting Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. Scholia is being developed in the framework of the larger WikiCite initiative, which seeks to index bibliographic metadata in Wikidata about resources that can be used to substantiate claims made on Wikidata, Wikipedia or elsewhere. **Why should you use Scholia?** @@ -9,25 +9,25 @@ Scholia is a useful tool for finding scientific literature. Based on the main to **How does it work?** -Scholia accesses information from [WikiData](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page) to search the literature. This requires that the main subject of a publication is annotated in WikiData. However, the main topic of a publication must be manually added, so we rely on crowdsourcing for this project. The more people annotate scientific literature in WikiData, the more powerful the search function in Scholia will become. +Scholia accesses information from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page) to search the literature. This requires that the main subject of a publication is annotated in Wikidata. However, the main topic of a publication must be manually added, so we rely on crowdsourcing for this project. The more people annotate scientific literature in Wikidata, the more powerful the search function in Scholia will become. In this tutorial we will take you through the basic steps the help you learn to use Scholia for finding scientific literature. -## Check Scholia to see if the publication you're looking for is annotated in WikiData +## Check Scholia to see if the publication you're looking for is annotated in Wikidata Go to the [Scholia homepage](https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/). Here you can use the search bar to look for the title of the publication. When you find the publication, the main page will look like this: ![Figure 1](Images/Scholia_1.PNG) -You can check whether the main topic of the publication is annotated in WikiData by scrolling down to the "Topic Scores" Section. +You can check whether the main topic of the publication is annotated in Wikidata by scrolling down to the "Topic Scores" Section. ![Figure 2](Images/Scholia_2.PNG) -In this example, there are no matching records found, so we need to annotate the publication in WikiData. To do so, click on the identifier associated with the title of the publication at the top of the page which is Q61163318 in this case. This will bring you to the WikiData page for the publication of interest. The page contains multiple pieces of information about the publication including the author list, the publication date, the journal, work that it cites, etc. +In this example, there are no matching records found, so we need to annotate the publication in Wikidata. To do so, click on the identifier associated with the title of the publication at the top of the page which is Q61163318 in this case. This will bring you to the Wikidata page for the publication of interest. The page contains multiple pieces of information about the publication including the author list, the publication date, the journal, work that it cites, etc. ![Figure 3](Images/Wikidata_3.PNG) -## Annotate the main topic of a scientific publication in WikiData -Before annotating the publication on WikiData, you must be logged in. Click "log in" at the top right of the page. +## Annotate the main topic of a scientific publication in Wikidata +Before annotating the publication on Wikidata, you must be logged in. Click "log in" at the top right of the page. ![Figure 4](Images/Wikidata_1.PNG) @@ -60,6 +60,6 @@ For this example, we will search the term *cardiac muscle contraction*. Under th ![Figure 11](Images/Scholia_5.PNG) -### For more information about Scholia, you can refer to the [Frequently Asked Questions page](https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/faq). For more information about how to use WikiData, you can refer to the [WikiData tours page](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours). +### For more information about Scholia, you can refer to the [Frequently Asked Questions page](https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/faq). For more information about how to use Wikidata, you can refer to the [Wikidata tours page](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours).