Wikidata:Property proposal/Scribd Book ID

Scribd Item ID

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionexternal identifier for a book/audio book/document/magazine/article in the Scribd library
RepresentsScribd (Q1467888)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainversion, edition or translation (Q3331189) (books), document (Q49848), audiobook (Q106833), issue (Q28869365) (the magazine itself has a different ID), article (Q191067)
Allowed values[1-9]\d*
Example 1The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Q54488972)322011391
Example 2A Case of Need (Q2708811)171101163
Example 3The Alchemist (Q179021)254663574
Sourcehttps://www.scribd.com
Number of IDs in source400,000,000+
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URLhttps://www.scribd.com/doc/$1

Motivation

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Useful authority control for books --SilentSpike (talk) 13:28, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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  Comment Something I noticed while looking into these IDs (creating this proposal) is that there is no ID overlap between books/documents/audiobooks/snapshots/magazines. For example all of these links actually lead to the same book item:

So perhaps this property is better off as a more generic "Scribd Item ID" (not book specific), however I'm unsure how best to implement that. Notably there are also author IDs which do have overlap (e.g. https://www.scribd.com/author/254663574). --SilentSpike (talk) 13:28, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  •   Info I've now updated this proposal to reflect that this identifier actually applies to more than just books. I went with the "doc" URL for the formatter as it seems the most neutral (however, all are valid). Additionally I've corrected the domain - from what I can tell the state of book items on Wikidata is a bit of a mess since rarely do edition items actually get created and properties are dumped onto the work item (as such the examples aren't 100% correct). --SilentSpike (talk) 09:28, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, SilentSpike, MartinPoulter:   Done: Everand item ID (P7234). − Pintoch (talk) 08:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]