Am 09.11.2015 um 03:26 schrieb S Page:
I think these other identifiers are all "Wikidata
property representing a unique
identifier" and there are about 350 of them [2] But surprisingly, I couldn't
find an easy way to look up a Wikidata item using these other identifiers.
We discussed some loose plans for implementing this in Currus when Stas was in
Berlin a few weeks ago. On Special:Search, you would ask for
property:P212:978-2-07-027437-6, and that would find the item with that ISBN.
Stas: do we have a ticket for this somewhere? All I can find are the notes in
the etherpad.
Also, is this a temporary thing? Will Wikidata
eventually have items for every
book published, every musical recording, etc. and become a superset of all those
unique identifiers?
It's highly unlikely that wikidata will become a superset of any and all
vocuabularies in existance. Better integration of external identifiers is high
on our priority list right now. The first step will however be to property
expose URIs for them, so we are no longer a dead end in the linked data web.
But since we need to work on Cirrus integration anyway, I expect that we will
have search-by-property soonish, too. I certrainly hope so.
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.