Importing Scholarly Articles into Wikidata via Zotero: Step-by-Step Process
The eight steps below provide a detailed description of a process to ingest scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero, a bibliographic citation management software. The process is the same used to ingest a body of articles of the Anais do Museu Paulista into Wikidata.
Step 1: Download Zotero
In this step, we use Zotero, an open-source so ware to manage bibliographic data. Zotero Desktop is the desktop version of the tool and Zotero Connector is an extension for browsers to save online references to Zotero. The combination of the two tools aims to make bibliographic references fully integrated, interoperable, and synchronized. These tools are available to download at www.zotero.org/download/. Tutorials for how to work with Zotero are available at www.zotero.org/support/.
Step 2: Import a Set of Articles into Zotero
Begin by creating a list of identifiers and use the “Add Item by Identifier” button on Zotero Desktop to import them all at once (see top of figure 3). As of 2020, ISBNs, DOIs, PMIDs, and arXIv IDs are the only supported identifiers. Alternatively, add identifiers manually using the Zotero Connector extension in the browser by clicking on the “Save to Zotero” button at the top right corner of the article web page (see bottom of figure 3).
The challenge in this step is to decide on which alternative is less time-consuming or skill dependent: to produce a list of identifiers in a text file or spreadsheet or to add them one by one. If an article does not have any of the four identifiers, rely on Zotero Connector to add the article to the library.
Step 3: Create an Account on Wikimedia Projects
Users are not required to create an account or login in order to edit Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons. However, an account and
