On 08/12/2012 17:32, "Jeroen De Dauw" jeroendedauw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
It woud be great to have keys into other databases from Wikidata. I'd be happy to contribute Freebase IDs to matching Wikidata concepts. However, I'm wondering if it really makes sense to have a separate property for every type of ID. Shouldn't it be modeled more like interwiki links so that each concept has many foreign keys each with an associated data source. That's how we've modeled it in Freebase and it scales quite well.
If I'm not mistaken this is what we plan to do. The current system we're using for the language links can certainly handle it, as it's not WP specific.
I would love to see equivalency links to other sites with stable identifiers, such as IMDb and MusicBrainz.
What would the linking policy be for the wider web? We are interested in: - Official Twitter - Official Facebook - Official Homepage(s) and blogs - Fan sites
MusicBrainz have done quite a lot of work on this, for example: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Category:External_Website_Relationship_Class
They also have some nice JavaScript in their editor to make sure that URLs are consistently formatted for well-known sites.
nick.
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