Yes, Aubrey. It would be way too onerous to expect us to make each
citation a Wikidata item.
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Anthony Cole
<ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com
<javascript:;>> wrote:
Most editions of most books published in the last
40 years (certainly
books
from reliable publishers) have an ISBN that
identifies one edition. Most
reliable journal articles these days have a doi. For simple citing of web
pages, you could automatically convert bare urls to archived versions of
the cited web page.
I do agree with you.
But the problem emerges if you want to cite the reference (the book, the
article) as an item.
There you have to take into account a "book model" in Wikidata, and it's
easier said than done. (scientific articles are a bit easier, and Magnus is
working on them).
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData
Aubrey
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