Tom, I think most authorities are not using Wikipedia entries so much as Wikidata entries which I believe are persistent and point to the appropriate Wikipedia articles (in whatever languages they exist).
So for Goethe, one just has to go to: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5879 - and you will already see the burgeoning universe of connections. Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Librarian, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music & Recorded Sound Division The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023 www.nypl.org On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 7:31 AM Schilling, Tom < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > We are currently implementing a linked open data service linking our > resources to well known authority files. In doing so we stumbled upon > the usage of Wikipedia URIs in our data. > > 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 > > > Are there any concerns why this procedure could be a particularily bad > idea? Is the pageID in this case a persistent identifier for the page > on wikipedia? > > Thank you for your comments! > > [0] h > ttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/URI_scheme#Wikipedia_today > > > -- > Tom Schilling > project coordinator > EFRE-Project "Linked Open Data > > Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) > Department 2, Division 2.2 (Metadata) > Visiting address: Zellescher Weg 18, D-01069 Dresden > Postal address: D-01054 Dresden > Phone: +49 351 4677 474 > E-mail: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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