A figure from the article, outlining the idea of using SPARQL queries to extract data from the open knowledge base. As a reader of my blog, you know I have been doing quite some research where Wikidata has some role. I am preparing a paper on the work I have done around chemicals in Wikidata, based on what I presented at the ICCS with a poster.
Glucuronide functional group.
Screenshot of the Open Science History group on CiteULike.
In December I reported about Groovy code to create nanopublications . This has been running for some time now, extracting nanopubs that assert that some metabolite is found in some species. I send the resulting nanopubs to Tobias Kuhn , to populate his Growing Resource of Provenance-Centric Scientific Linked Data (doi:10.1109/eScience.2018.00024, PDF).
Yesterday, I struggled some with creating nanopublications with Groovy. My first attempt was an utter failure, but then I discovered Thomas Kuhn’s NanopubCreator and it was downhill from there.
My research is into abstract representation of chemical information, important for other research to be performed. Indeed, my work is generally reused, but knowing which research fields my work is used in, or which societal problems it is helping solve, is not easily retrieved or determined.
Found my way back to my room a few kilometers from the San Francisco city center, after a third day at the WikiPathways 2018 Summit at the Gladstone Institutes in Mission Bay, celebrating 10 years of the project, which I only joined some six and a half years ago. The Summit was awesome and the whole trip was awesome. The flight was long, with a stop in Seattle.
Slice of the spreadsheet in the supplementary info.
There was a lot of Open Science news this week.
Bar chart showing the number of compounds with a particular chemical identifier. I think Wikidata is a groundbreaking project, which will have a major impact on science. One of the reasons is the open license (CCZero), the very basic approach (Wikibase), and the superb community around it. For example, setting up your own Wikibase including a cool SPARQL endpoint, is easily done with Docker.