Wikidata:Property proposal/Dictionary of Irish Biography ID

Dictionary of Irish Biography ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionidentifier in the Dictionary of Irish Biography
RepresentsDictionary of Irish Biography (Q5273969)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5)
Allowed values[a-z]\d+[a-z]?
Example 1Maeve Binchy (Q152690) → a10019
Example 2Harry Blaney (Q15992782) → a10022
Example 3Bo Almqvist (Q19646639) → a10018
Sourcehttps://dib.cambridge.org/
External linksUse in sister projects: [ar][de][en][es][fr][he][it][ja][ko][nl][pl][pt][ru][sv][vi][zh][commons][species][wd][en.wikt][fr.wikt].
Planned useA researcher has constructed a mapping from a set of DIB IDs to DBPedia and the intent is to use this to add those IDs to Wikidata. (Edit) Thanks User:Gerwoman below for drawing my attention to a Mix'n'Match catalogue which also has a few hundred matches.
Number of IDs in source~10,000
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=$1
See alsoOxford Dictionary of National Biography ID (P1415), Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID (P1648)

Motivation edit

The Dictionary of Irish Biography (Q5273969) (DIB) is published by Cambridge University Press (Q912887) and is a biographical dictionary (Q1787111), similar to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Q17565097) and Dictionary of Welsh Biography (Q5273977). MartinPoulter (talk) 12:22, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

@MartinPoulter, Gerwoman, Andrew Gray, Sic19, Dhx1, Vulphere:   Done --Kolja21 (talk) 15:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]