On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 12:30, Schilling, Tom Tom.Schilling@slub-dresden.de 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.