On 4 April 2015 at 02:35, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all --
Have we considered separating in some way (in the UI, and possibly the
data model) properties which track identifiers in external databases vs.
properties that describe the item using Wikidata-internal links? As more
and more external identifiers are added, it's easy to get lost in them
while looking for the right property to describe an item.
We're effectively already doing this with Wikimedia identifiers by calling
them "sitelinks" and it seems like a potential logical extension of that
concept to group other kinds of external identifiers in their own section
rather than having CANTIC, BIBSYS identifiers, Freebase identifiers or even
DMOZ links mixed together with the primary descriptors of an author or
work, for example.
As systems grow they often need to interact with a larger eco system, I
think URI's were designed exactly for this use case.
Perhaps it would be an idea to bring all these systems together by giving
each entity a URI.
Thanks,
Erik
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