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


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Tom Schilling
project coordinator
EFRE-Project "Linked Open Data

Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
Department 2, Division 2.2 (Metadata)
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