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Monthly Archives: November 2017

Everybody scrape now!

If you like Wikidata and working on lists, you probably know my Mix’n’match tool, to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata. And if you are really into these things, you might have tried your luck with the import function, to add your own catalog. But the current import page has some drawbacks: You need […]

The flowering ORCID

As part of my Large Datasets campaign, I have now downloaded and processed the latest data from ORCID. This yielded 655,706 people (47,435 or 7% in Wikidata), and 13,438,786 publications (1,079,305 or 8% in Wikidata) with a DOI or PubMed ID (to be precise, these are publications-per-person, so the same paper might be counted multiple times; however, […]