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Sven Lieber

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I'm on vacation now, but thanks to pre-scheduling you won't miss out
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which the authors report on the creation of large amounts of FAIR data
which they host on Wikidata.

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🧪 Researchers write scientific papers which get peer-reviewed and if
accepted they eventually make it to the proceedings of a conference. So
far so good. However, depending on the publishing platform, you may end
up with a lot of **PDF files that are not really FAIR**, meaning you
cannot easily explore research papers. In today's Science Spotlight, I
summarize an interesting paper in which the authors report on how they
**improve the CEUR-WS publishing workflow** and make the metadata
**available on Wikidata.**

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# 🧪 Science Spotlight: CEUR-WS Semantification {#science-spotlight-ceur-ws-semantification}

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If you're organizing a small workshop you most likely are looking for a
place to publish the proceedings. **CEUR-WS**
([Q27230297](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27230297)) **gets you
covered!** It's a free online service to publish conference/workshop
proceedings which is operated by a team of **unpaid volunteers** **since
1995**.

Currently there are more than **3,300 volumes** published by CEUR-WS
containing over **65,000 PDF documents**. However, most of the data is
only indirectly available via other indexing services and because of
previous manual curation. Apparently there have been attempts in the
past to make this data more accessible, but so far no sustainable way
was implemented as a service with Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) is
needed to host the data in a permanent way.

> *"PIDs can only remain persistent if someone is committed to ensuring
> they stay accessible to users. This requires an engagement or a
> service level agreement for PID availability, in contrast to URIs,
> where no such agreement exists"*

This is where two tools from the Wikimedia Foundation
([Q180](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180)) come into play:
**Wikidata** and the **Semantic Media Wiki**. In the paper
*"Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph"*
([Q118799186](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118799186)) that I want to
share with you today, the authors present a solution: instead of yet
another effort to create RDF out of the proceedings and storing them in
a local RDF database, the whole **publishing workflow is adapted** to
use a **Media Wiki** as Content Management System and
**single-source-of-truth metadata** and **Wikidata** as a free and
externally hosted database for FAIR metadata.

They have already applied the workflow and made **proceedings and event
entities available on Wikidata**. More details you can find in their
paper. The benefit you may ask? One of the benefits: exploration of
data! Check out the live query in the caption of the following image
that can show the locations of all proceedings events, because it is
stored now in a FAIR fashion.

[Read their paper for more
info!](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3447/Text2KG_Paper_13.pdf){.button
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<figcaption>The location of all CEUR-WS proceedings locations: <a
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content interesting. Don't forget to share or subscribe. See you next
week!

Sven

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