Special:FindCitableMetadata provides access to selected metadata provider to map external data to the internal #scite format. Supported providers are:

PubMed (PMID, PMCID)
CrossRef (DOI)
OpenLibrary
OCLC (WorldCat)
VIAF

This video shows the usage variety of the metadata search.

Direct search

A link Special:FindCitableMetadata + /doi/10.1126/science.1152662 or /pubmed/18487186 with a type and ID parameter allows to execute a search immediately.

Search

After a successful search, a generated #scite form is provided which can either be copied manually (see the Search text button) or with the help of the auto creation feature (use the Create button) can add an individual article directly from the special page.

The data received from a service provider are compacted to fit the #scite format but the parameter &format=raw can be used to display the unprocessed data retrieved from a provider.

If a citation resource already exists for one of the selected identifiers then a link to this resource is provided.

Citation resource auto creation

Special:FindCitableMetadata allows to create a dedicated article containing the mapped #scite with content from the search and a page title that is generated from:

CR: (is the fixed identifier indicating a citation resource article)
UID prefix ( PMC, PMID, OCLC etc.) and
UID itself

For example, a search for 18487186 on the PubMed database is expected to create the article CR:PMID:18487186 containing the filtered #scite content matched during the search if the user was to engage in a Create action.

CR: namespace

It is possible to customize CR: and be recognized as separate namespace so that it is distinguishable from other content.

// Define custom CR namespace
define( "NS_CR", 3000 );
define( "NS_CR_TALK", 3001 );
$GLOBALS['wgExtraNamespaces'][NS_CR] = "CR";
$GLOBALS['wgExtraNamespaces'][NS_CR_TALK] = "CR_talk";
// Enable annotation for the CR namespace when used as custom NS
$GLOBALS['smwgNamespacesWithSemanticLinks'][NS_CR] = true;

If this step is done after resources have already been created rebuildData.php needs to be executed to ensure that annotations are reconnected to the newly assigned namespace number.

Related settings

To avoid repeated data downloads from a service provider, requests are cached that contain the same signature with an expiry specified by `$GLOBALS['scigMetadataResponseCacheLifetime']`.

By default, the access to the search is restricted to users with the sci-metasearch right.