Full database download is described at: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/download/
The only problem with it is scope, being life sciences-only.
- What motivates the WikiGnomes?
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome
It appears to only extract structured data from Wikipedia, not natural language, so it is kind of basic then.
These are free to query, but you can't download their database. For those that allow database download see: Open academic paper database.
By "open" we also mean that you can download their database locally and that it has an open license, not just free access.
TODO evaluate:
- www.crossref.org/. No papers by author attempt unless they have ORCID: community.crossref.org/t/get-all-works-of-a-particular-author-without-orcid/3751 so what's the point of this project? www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/ this Funder registry thing sounds cool though.
Peter Mortensen is by far the largest serial editor on Stack Overflow, making predominantly style and grammar edits.
He is the prototypical WikiGnome.
His edit count is insane, ~127k as of November 2024 and increasing.
As per Users with most posts edited and stackoverflow.com/users?tab=Editors&filter=all he was the second most prolific editor of all time as of 2024, surpassed only by
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. Possibly a Tawny owl.By "Academic paper database" we mean a database that collects paper metadata such as authors and citations, but not necessarily the full article content.
Academia is so broken that there isn't even one be-all and end-all database of:It's closed access academic journals are evil to the extreme.
Getting a list of all currencies from Wikidata with SPARQL Updated 2025-04-18 +Created 2024-11-18
This one was way harder than my previous fun with "find the oldest people who won a given prize" (Nobel Prize/Oscar) mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/112689376315990248 because unlike those prizes where all the decisions are centralized, countries are much more complicated beasts, with changing currencies and international recognition.
This was a good experience to see a few ways in which Wikidata is inconsistent, with the same concept being expressed in multiple different ways, e.g. "end time" property of the current vs the superior "end time" qualifier.
Particularly bad is the notion of a "deprecated rank", that should really not exist.
This is exactly the type of semi interactive data munching that I like to do, a bit in the same vein as CIA 2010 covert communication websites and Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain.
As you might imagine, the secret services use exactly this type of knowledge modelling to do their dirty business, e.g. Gaffer by the GCHQ.
This is the best monstrosity I had the patience to come up with:It got quite close to the ISO 4217 list.
SELECT
?currency
(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?currencyIsoCode; SEPARATOR=", ") AS ?currencyIsoCodes)
?currencyLabel
(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?countryLabel; SEPARATOR=", ") AS ?countries)
WHERE {
?country wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q6256. # is country
?country p:P38 ?countryHasCurrency.
?countryHasCurrency ps:P38 ?currency.
?countryHasCurrency wikibase:rank ?countryHasCurrencyRank.
OPTIONAL {
?currency p:P498 ?currencyHasIsoCode.
?currencyHasIsoCode ps:P498 ?currencyIsoCode.
}
FILTER NOT EXISTS {?country wdt:P576 ?countryAbolished}
FILTER NOT EXISTS {?currency wdt:P576 ?currencyAbolished}
FILTER NOT EXISTS {?currency wdt:P582 ?currencyEndTime}
FILTER NOT EXISTS {?countryHasCurrency pq:P582 ?countryHasCurrencyEndtime}
FILTER (?countryHasCurrencyRank != wikibase:DeprecatedRank)
FILTER (!bound(?currencyHasIsoCode) || ?currencyHasIsoCode != wikibase:DeprecatedRank)
# TODO makes query take timeout? Why? Needed to exclude PLZ.
FILTER NOT EXISTS {?currencyHasIsoCode pq:P582 ?currencyHasIsoCodeEndtime}
SERVICE wikibase:label {
bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en".
?currency rdfs:label ?currencyLabel .
?country rdfs:label ?countryLabel .
}
}
GROUP BY ?currency ?currencyLabel
ORDER BY ?currencyIsoCodes ?currencyLabel
I was drawn into this waste of time after I noticed that someone had managed to create the Wikipedia of PsiQuantum which I had tried earlier but got deleted: mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/113488891292906243, and then I made the mistake of having a look at the Wikidata page of PsiQuantum.
500,000 Transnistrian ruble banknote 1997 series
. This is one of the most widely used currencies which does not have an ISO 4217 code.Announcements:
I also had one more fun with: opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/15750/structured-data-for-nobel-prizes/21847#21847 getting some basic info about Nobel Prize winners, and noticed one, John Sulston, 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine laureate, who likely has the wrong place of birth on his Nobel Prize profile: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2002/sulston/facts/ which is funny. I suggested the change now. Edit they fixed it after I pointed it out:
Another highlight was 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Alfred Werner who born either in Mulhouse in Alsace, France, or in "Yo no sé qué me pasó" ("I don't know what happened to me" in Spanish), a 1986 song by Mexican singer Juan Gabriel.
Announcements:
Also at opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/21849/how-to-get-a-list-of-all-nobel-prize-winners-who-never-had-a-doctorate-from-wiki/21850#21850 I tried to get the list of Nobel Prize laureates who don't have a PhD. I think the query was correct, but Wikidata data is just too incomplete. Related:
An Introduction to the Transmon Qubit for Electromagnetic Engineers Updated 2025-04-18 +Created 2024-11-15
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