Okay, the Pilot is over ending with 17 papers, 16 of which have CiTO annotations (and so far 4 J.Cheminform. papers after the pilot), but my interest in the Citation Typing Ontology continues and we just need more adoption.

Datasets as source of annotations

So, here’s a quick Wikidata update. I have been using Wikidata as infrastructure to collect and share CiTO annotations (see also the below “Scholia patch” posts). Some time ago I recovered my CiteULike CiTO annotations and made this available on Zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.7368209).

And while thinking about datasets with CiTO annotations, I found two other datasets. One was from an article in Portuguese and one from an article by Peroni et al. with this data file. That data file is actually a zip, but inside the zip file is a CSV file with three interesting columns: cited_doi, citing_doi, and intext_citation.intent. There are many more columns and I can highly recommend browsing them. But these are the three I need to add data to Wikidata. The third column is free text, but using the CiTO for labels, making it relatively easy to convert to citation intentions from Wikidata (PS, thanks to Fvtvr3r for adding more!).

So, I had a cleaned file and started writing a Groovy Bioclipse script using Bacting. It basically does a few things: extract all DOIs, check which ones are in Wikidata, analyze the intext_citation.intent column content, and then generate QuickStatements (see this gist). Out of the 600 lines from the input, it creates some 200 new CiTO-annotated citations in Wikidata between some 150 article pairs:

The ability to include CiTO annotations from datasets is another welcome boost for the CiTO statistics in Wikidata. This SPARQL query shows an overview of sources that support the CiTO intention annotation, but note that a claim with a CiTO intention may also have CrossRef, PubMed, and COCI as reference. In those cases, they are primarily for the citations and not the intention.

There are now (the latest stats are here) 1202 citation intention annotations in Wikidata for 992 citations from 405 articles in 199 venues. Of these 27 articles have explicit annotations in the article itself and are found in 4 venues, two journals and two preprint servers). These annotated citations are to 510 articles in 190 different venues. This Scholia patch will add a new statistics, the number of datasets providing citation intentions, of which there are (as discussed) currently two in Wikidata. The latter two provide intentions for the majority of articles and are depicted in yellow in the below overview.

With an annotation in an 1938 article by Alan Turing! I ran into this article in November 2011 noting an apparent duplicate title in his article list. I turned out an earlier article had a correction with the same name. I added this clarification:

This is very trivial citation intention data that publishers could provide as open data.

Okay, that will do for today. There are actually some really interesting things in the pipeline, but I will have to write about that later. I have some deadlines I should start looking at. Below is some extra reading. Some more history

cito  data  scholia  10.1186/s13321-023-00683-2  10.1186/s13321-023-00701-3  10.21105/joss.02558  10.5281/ZENODO.7368209