Translate medical research publication metadata for easy access through Wikidata and Wikipedia

Wikidata is currently the central hub of the Open Semantic Web and a portal to downstream reuse. While various sources such as libraries, repositories, and ClinicalTrials.gov provide ‘open data’, the easiest way to make information broadly accessible to the public as well as professionals and researchers is integration into a Semantic Web portal like Wikidata which encourages further reuse.

This project will integrate ClinicalTrials.gov into Wikidata, making it accessible to the Open Semantic Web and beginning the process of mapping its metadata with PubMed, disambiguated names of researchers, geolocation of study sites, portfolio of sponsors and drug databases. Furthermore, we will translate the search interface to those named underserved languages, such as Hindi, Bengali and Swahili, as a precedent in global collaboration. 

If we are successful to the limits of our expectations, clinical trials data published to date will be free and open and in the Semantic Web. This project will also set the precedent that linguistic diversity must be central to open data projects of global interest.