Hoi, What we could do for particular searches is to fallback on other resources that are known to be complete. When we do not find an ISBN, we can fall back to library systems, local libraries preferably.
There are many ways we can make a difference. When we do this for one field of knowledge at a time, it will entice people to do more for their own field. Thanks, GerardM
On 9 November 2015 at 10:28, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 9 November 2015 at 08:45, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
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.
Agree.
*However*, there are some things where we may be able to say with confidence "Wikidata has a comprehensive set of X" (eg catalogues such as P1186). It might be worth thinking about whether we should record these identifier properties as "will always be incomplete", "probably complete", "expected to eventually be complete", etc. If a user queries for an ISBN we don't have, the chances are high that it's a good ISBN we don't cover - but if they query for a country code we don't have, the chances are high that it's an invalid code...
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