Wikidata:Property proposal/British Museum bioID

British Museum bioID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: no label (P6077) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Identifier for a person, organisation, or mythological figure on the British Museum main public website
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5), organization (Q43229), character that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598)
Allowed values	[1-9][0-9]{0,5}
Example 1	Rembrandt (Q5598) → 110150
Example 2	Royal Academy of Arts (Q270920) → 109179
Example 3	Perseus (Q130832) → 95469
Source	http://www.britishmuseum.org/research.aspx
Number of IDs in source	232,000 +
Formatter URL	http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=$1
See also	British Museum person or institution ID (P1711)

Motivation edit

The British Museum website contains over 232,000 entries for people, organisations, and mythical characters. Some are only a single line, but many are quite extensive, and sometimes more detailed than other standard online references.

We have previously tried to match to this corpus using British Museum person or institution ID (P1711) linked to the BM's trial linked-data service (29,000 entries currently matched). But some time ago that service ceased returning any biographical text for entries, and for the last several months it has been off the net completely, returning a 502 "Bad Gateway" error. It would therefore seem a good idea to try to make links to the main public website instead.

There appears to be no relation between the P1711 IDs and those used by the main public website. However, it may be possible to make some assignments by scraping the text of the public website and comparing it to the text stored in Mix'n'match obtained previously from the linked-data site. Jheald (talk) 11:24, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate URL for search: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?people=$1 , eg:110150

Discussion edit

Proposed. Jheald (talk) 11:24, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:43, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — eru ^{[Talk] [french wiki]} 13:32, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cwf97 (talk) 17:55, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support David (talk) 06:36, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 19:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, YULdigitalpreservation, Pigsonthewing, Cwf97, Jheald: Done: P6077 (P6077). − Pintoch (talk) 09:40, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]