WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata

Abstract

WikiProject Clinical Trials is a Wikidata community project to integrate clinical trials metadata with the Wikipedia ecosystem. Using Wikidata methods for data modeling, import, querying, curating, and profiling, the project brought ClinicalTrials.gov records into Wikidata and enriched them. The motivation for the project was gaining the benefits of hosting in Wikidata, which include distribution to new audiences and staging the content for the Wikimedia editor community to develop it further. Project pages present options for engaging with the content in the Wikidata environment. Example applications include generation of web-based profiles of clinical trials by medical condition, research intervention, research site, principal investigator, and funder.The project’s curation workflows including entity disambiguation and language translation could be expanded when there is a need to make subsets of clinical trial information more accessible to a given community. This project’s methods could be adapted for other clinical trial registries, or as a model for using Wikidata to enrich other metadata collections.

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