On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 17 May 2017 at 16:28, Andra Waagmeester <an...@micelio.be> wrote:
>
> > Just to add to Egon's comment IRI's can also be added to Wikidata using
> the
> > Property P2888 - Exact Match.
>
> I wouldn't advise doing this when we already have the ID in a specific
> property.
>
>
The ID usually points to human readable website, whereas in RDF the items
use IRI to distinguish between concepts. An IRI points to the related node
in the linked data cloud.  In the context of being able to link with
external (RDF) datasets, using the ID from a specific property does not
work.




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