Pysotsog

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id	pysotsog
state	active
owner	WolfgangFahl
title	pysotsog is a python library for scholars to help navigate the conceptual knowledge graph consisting of authors,organizations,papers,scientific events,scientific event series
url	https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/pysotsog
version	0.0.6
description
date	2022-11-16
since	2022-11-17
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Motivation

Standing on the shoulders of giants is a core motto for scholars when doing research. To pursue this motto scholars need to be able to navigate the conceptual knowledge graph depicted in the diagram below. This knowledge graph is implemented in Wikidata and accessible via the scholia portal.

pysotsog is a python library to improve the search, navigation and general accessibility of the items in this scholary knowledge graph.

Installation

pip install pyThunderbird
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install pyThunderbird 
# local install from source directory of pyThunderbird 
pip install .

upgrade

pip install pyThunderbird  -U
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install pyThunderbird -U

Usage

Command line

sotsog -h
usage: sotsog [-h] [-d] [-la LANG] [-li LIMIT] [-V] [search ...]

python Library for Scholars to achieve "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

  Created by Wolfgang Fahl on 2022-11-16.
  Copyright 2022 Wolfgang Fahl. All rights reserved.

  Licensed under the Apache License 2.0
  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Distributed on an "AS IS" basis without warranties
  or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.

USAGE

positional arguments:
  search                search terms

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           show debug info
  -la LANG, --lang LANG
                        language code to use
  -li LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
                        limit the number of search results
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit

Examples

Scholar

Tim Berners-Lee

sotsog Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee(Q80):English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)✅
Scholar➜Tim Berners-Lee:
  wikiDataId=http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80
  gndId=121649091
  dblpId=b/TimBernersLee
  orcid=0000-0003-1279-3709
  homepage=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
  givenName=http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1369663
  familyName=http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18375238
  gender=http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6581097
  image=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir%20Tim%20Berners-Lee%20%28cropped%29.jpg
opening https://scholia.toolforge.org/author/Q80 in browser

Institution

RWTH Aachen

sotsog RWTH
RWTH Aachen University(Q273263):university in Aachen, Germany✅
Institution➜RWTH Aachen University:
  wikiDataId=http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q273263
  short_name=RWTH Aachen
  inception=1870-10-10 00:00:00
  country=http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183
  image=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1196-18-rwth-aachen-hg-von-hendrik-brixius.jpg
  located_in=http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1017
  official_website=http://www.rwth-aachen.de
opening https://scholia.toolforge.org/organization/Q273263 in browser