On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 12:30, Schilling, Tom
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It turns out other authority files like DNB's culturegraph uses the
> complete title within the URI:
>
> https://hub.culturegraph.org/entityfacts/118540238
> → dewiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
>
> [0] states, that Wikipedia URL are not persistent and can change, for
> example if a Person changes its name. So the question arises if a usage
> of pageID would not be a better solution in context of linked open
> data? In this context the upper link could be represented by
>
>         https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2501

Better still would be to use the Wikidata URI instead:

   https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5879

with more human-readable equivalent at:

   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5879

You could if you wish simply store the UID, "Q5879".

Given one of the above, the Wikidata API will always return the
current Wikipedia URI, in German or any other preferred (or other
available, as a fallback) language.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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