Wikidata:Property proposal/OCLC work id

OCLC work ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: OCLC work ID (P5331) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Identifier for a work-level item in the OCLC linked data system
Data type	External identifier
Domain	literary work (Q7725634)
Allowed values	[1-9]\d*
Example	A Morbid Taste for Bones (Q3536449) -> 20626614
Source	OCLC
External links	Use 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 use	I am interested in adding OCLC work ids to work-level items identified or created corresponding to books in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (Q172266) (Wikidata:WikiProject BHL)
Number of IDs in source	197 million (as of 2014) [1]
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/$1
See also	OCLC control number (P243)

Motivation

While OCLC control number (P243) is intended to be an identifier for an item in our version, edition or translation (Q3331189) class, the OCLC work ID is intended to be a single identifier for the literary work (Q7725634) itself, encompassing all editions, as set out here: [2]

(NB: be aware that the OCLC's linked data is released under an ODC-BY licence, and therefore cannot be harvested into Wikidata. However, "OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain" [3])

Jheald (talk) 00:02, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Proposed: Jheald (talk) 00:02, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Salgo60 (talk) 11:03, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Gerwoman (talk) 18:29, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:30, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Uomovariabile (talk to me) 06:56, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gamaliel (talk) 21:29, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment are the numbers in the same range? Can the same identifier value be in both?
--- Jura 12:59, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, yes. For example OCLC control number (P243) 20626614 maps to a thesis dissertation, Renal biopsy; a review and description of a new technique Jheald (talk) 13:09, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If P243 currently mixes both, wouldn't it be preferable to make two new properties? Eventually P243 could be deleted or be an empty parent property of both.
--- Jura 13:17, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jura1: OCLC control number (P243) doesn't mix both. As I far as I know, it is used entirely for the 'classic' OCLC edition identifier, not for this new 'work ID'. Jheald (talk) 13:51, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Simon Cobb (Sic19 ; talk page) 18:49, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support David (talk) 16:32, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigsonthewing, Salgo60, Gamaliel, Jheald, Jura1, ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2: @Uomovariabile, Gerwoman: Done: OCLC work ID (P5331). − Pintoch (talk) 05:03, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]