Wikidata:Property proposal/OpenCitations Meta Identifier

‎OpenCitations Meta Identifier

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: OpenCitations Meta ID (P12842) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Used by the OpenCitations Corpus to provide citation links between scholarly articles. Earlier version of OpenCitations used the DOI directly but were also limited to DOI only. They recently transitioned to using OMIDs to make the citation linking more flexible and DOI independent.
Represents	OpenCitations Corpus (Q26382154)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item, work (Q386724)
Allowed values	[a-z]+/06[1-9]*0[0-9]+
Example 1	Response to the letter of Hanley et al. ([1999] Teratology 59:323-324), concerning the article by Roy et al. ([1998] Teratology 58:62-68) (Q48099441)→br/0601
Example 2	Open access and online publishing: a new frontier in nursing? (Q57560627)→br/062601067530
Example 3	Wikidata: A New Platform for Collaborative Data Collection (Q27042516)→br/062502976637
Source	https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00292
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://w3id.org/oc/meta/$1
See also	Google Scholar paper ID (P4028), Semantic Scholar corpus ID (P8299), DBLP publication ID (P8978)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

OpenCitations Corpus recently transitioned from using only DOI to using their own OMIDs for citation linking. This makes the links more flexible an independent of DOI, e.g., they now can use PubMed or arXiv IDs for citation linking as well. This is particularly relevant to handling citations without any DOI. But this also makes OMIDs crucial when working with open citation data. For further reading see:

• https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/3140
• https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00292

I am working at DBLP and we are already actively working with OMIDs. We can provide a linking of OMID with DOI and/or DBLP publication IDs for Mix'n'Match, if needed. --MRA (talk) 11:08, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support however you should maybe clarify in the examples that the ID value is just the last piece of the URL? ArthurPSmith (talk) 23:25, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

  fixed --MRA (talk) 07:26, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

• @MRA, ArthurPSmith:  Done as OpenCitations Meta ID (P12842). Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 12:32, 25 June 2024 (UTC)