Wikidata:Property proposal/maintains consistent linking to
maintains consistent linking to edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
| Description | this collection resource maintains a consistent linking to this other collection resource |
|---|---|
| Data type | Item |
| Domain | data set (Q1172284), online database (Q7094076) |
| Example 1 | Metacritic (Q150248) → GameFAQs (Q693757) |
| Example 2 | Lemon Amiga (Q55256762) → Hall of Light (Q61170938), OpenRetro Game Database (Q76749431), Universal Videogame List (Q64447538) |
| Example 3 | IdRef (Q47757534) → International Standard Name Identifier (Q423048), Virtual International Authority File (Q54919) |
| Example 4 | WhoSampled (Q7997133) → Discogs (Q504063), English Wikipedia (Q328) |
| Example 5 | Portable Antiquities Scheme Database (Q111225724) → FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus (Q74829009) |
| Example 6 | Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging (Q64351785) → Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Q611299) |
| See also | references work, tradition or theory (P8371), cites work (P2860), quotes work (P6166), uses (P2283)/used by (P1535) |
Motivation edit
Databases often link to other databases (as we know well on Wikidata ;-). This property would allow to record (and visualize) that linkage. It would also likely reveal the value brought by Wikidata which links to 'all' of them − establishing pathways that do not exist at the moment, and bridging 'islands'.
It would also enable to see pathways for chaining alignments: for example, Deku Deals (Q90278035) → Metacritic (Q150248) → GameFAQs (Q693757) − by working on Deku Deals, we can find our way to GameFAQs even though there is no direct link.
My own objective is part of Wikiproject Video games − we link to a lot of external databases, and I am interested in modeling the databases themselves − but the concept is applicable to any domain (as shown in the examples).
On Virtual International Authority File (Q54919), I see that uses (P2283) in a similar fashion but the intent is unclear − does it mean that VIAF merely links to BnF authorities (Q19938912) (ie, records the BnF id as a field), or does it use as a data source?
Happy to take suggestions on the wording of the label/description. This idea started as “links to” and was refined to be less vague. The “consistent” part aims to make it clear that this is not about "ad-hoc" linking (a few records of Database A happens to link to Database B, out of thousands of records → not in scope). I think of it as “does this database has a field storing the identifier/link to this other database”. I also thought of something like "consistently records reference to” (which has the advantage of not excluding unlinked references, or references to offline resources) or “has field for” (which sounds a bit too database-y lingo to my taste)
Jean-Fred (talk) 12:58, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Discussion edit
- @Jean-Frédéric: I can see the need for this, however I thought we already had something like this to indicate that a database contains information or identifiers from other databases... Can't figure out what that property is right now, so maybe it never happened... ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:38, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith: I did do another search through the list of all properties, did not find anything. Jean-Fred (talk) 20:18, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Support - I would use this a lot. PKM (talk) 20:09, 21 March 2022 (UTC)- Support - looks very useful (and I cant find anything that already exists). --Hannes Röst (talk) 16:01, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
