On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 12:30, Schilling, Tom
<Tom.Schilling(a)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.
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Andy Mabbett
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