Hello,
we here at Bibnet (a government agency working for public libraries) in Brussels greatly
admire your work on the Wikidata project! Thanks to the addition of Wikidata indentifiers
to the viaf.org<http://viaf.org> project, we finally will be able to relate the
personal names in our library catalog to Wikipedia.
What we do now (without identifiers):
We use the Wikipedia API to query the ’titles’ parameter, based on the name of an author
in our database. Lots of things can go wrong of course.
Example query:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops%7Cinfo%7C…
Result in our library catalog (AquaBrowser software):
http://zbb.staging.aquabrowser.be/?q=author:%22Dimitri%20Verhulst%22&ui…
What we want to do (with identifiers):
Keep on using the Wikipedia api (because then there are no costs for extra development),
but query for a Wikidata identifier (I believe it is called wikibase_item). I only find
pageids as a parameter on
http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=queryuery.
Is querying for a Wikidata identifier possible? If not, what is a possible workaround?
Thank you,
Johan
Johan Mijs
Technology Manager
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