Wikidata talk:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers

Interesting IDs with less than 1,000 entries to add later:

• UK National Archives ID (P3029)
• At the Circulating Library ID (P1564)
• ZooBank author ID (P2006)
• Academic Tree ID (P2381)
• Italian Senate of the Republic ID (P2549)
• ResearcherID (P1053)
• ResearchGate profile ID (P2038)
• Scopus author ID (P1153)
• Google Scholar author ID (P1960)
• DBLP author ID (P2456)
• MTMT author ID (P2492)
• Unz Review author ID (P2734)
• CCAB ID (P1890)
• National Library of Romania ID (P1003)
• Persée author ID (P2732)
• RSL ID (person) (P947)
• Low German Bibliography and Biography ID (P745)
• ACM Digital Library author ID (P864)
• Openpolis ID (P1229)
• Swiss parliament ID (P1307)
• CALIS ID (P270)
• NCL ID (P1048)
• NLC authorities (P1213)

Biographical catalogues in mix'n'match

You can group them by type, biography being one type. 121 biographical catalogues at the time of writing. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:15, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

More to check

@Andrew Gray: Some time ago I added this example query:

#Authority control properties usage for painters
# Make a list of the most used authority control properties for people for painters
SELECT ?propertyLabel ?propertyDescription ?count WHERE { 
	{
		select ?propertyclaim (COUNT(*) AS ?count) where {
			?item wdt:P106 wd:Q1028181 . 
			?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5 .
			?item ?propertyclaim [] .
		} group by ?propertyclaim 
	}
	?property wikibase:propertyType wikibase:ExternalId .
	?property wdt:P31 wd:Q19595382 .
	?property wikibase:claim ?propertyclaim .
	SERVICE wikibase:label {            # ... include the labels
		bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" .
	}
} ORDER BY DESC (?count)
LIMIT 100

Try it!

You might want to check those. Same query for all humans times out. To just get a list of Wikidata property for authority control for people (Q19595382)

SELECT ?propertyLabel ?propertyDescription WHERE { 
	?property wikibase:propertyType wikibase:ExternalId .
	?property wdt:P31 wd:Q19595382 .
	?property wikibase:claim ?propertyclaim .
	SERVICE wikibase:label {            # ... include the labels
		bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" .
	}
} ORDER BY ?propertyLabel

Try it!

Multichill (talk) 10:56, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! One of the example queries I've included was based on a form of this, I think - had saved a note of the syntax but forgot where I got it from. I'll start working through them to see what I've missed. Andrew Gray (talk) 23:45, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Sectioning

I'm not sure how best to subdivide this. At the moment it has:

• Identifiers
• Library authority records

This feels a bit awkward. An early draft was grouped by theme - politics, art, etc - which didn't seem to work well either. I'm considering switching to -

• Biographical resources - ie, things with biographical content at the link (such as the various Dictionaries of National Biography)
• Content index entries - things with minimal information but which link to collections of content (eg most of the art gallery entries)
• Pure identifiers - authority records and similar which just serve as an identifier (ISNI, LCCN, RKDArtists...)

Is there a more natural division than these? Andrew Gray (talk) 23:52, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Programmatic generated list

Check out Wikidata:List of properties/Person/Authority control. I update it monthly on the 15th. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:31, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata:Property_proposal/mapping_relation_type

The above might interest you. It would allow to map items for couples to identifiers for individuals.
--- Jura 09:28, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Relationship to Wikidata:WikiProject Names and Wikidata:WikiProject Q5?

Looks like these projects would benefit from closer interaction. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 20:43, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata contribution at "Biographical Data in a Digital World" conference on Nov 6-7 in Vienna

The organizers of Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 have contacted some Wikidata contributors about giving a talk or otherwise contribute on how Wikimedia / Wikipedia / Wikidata et al. can help with biographical research in the digital humanities. None of us can make it, so if any of you here are interested, I'd be happy to establish contact. Travel and accommodation will be covered by the organizers. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 20:52, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I'd love to but I can't make it at that short notice, sadly! Would be great if someone could go - perhaps @Jneubert: would be a good person to ask? It would fit well with his recent work on economists. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:13, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Help:Identifiers

Hi, I'd just like to let you know that I've started a general page on identifiers in Wikidata which this WikiProject seems to be a sub-project of. Please see my message at WikiProject_Molecular_biology -- JakobVoss (talk) 13:44, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

How to correct errors in VIAF

Hi! Where can I report errors in VIAF? I've just noticed that the DNB in 12310254 should go in 220577966 and 249538137 should be merged into 12310254. Thank you! --Epìdosis 13:23, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

 Solved: en:Wikipedia:VIAF/errors. --Epìdosis 17:02, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

External identifiers

Hi All,

I wrote a proposal about expanding the statements regarding external identifiers, please have a look and add your opinions: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#External_Identifiers_-_expanding_statements,_best_practice --Adam Harangozó (talk) 15:28, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata:Property proposal: askArt person ID

Please see Wikidata:Property proposal/askArt person ID. Cheers, -Animalparty (talk) 01:29, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

How to remove a wrong Identifier value in a Q-item ?

Hello,

Can somehow help me removing the "Morris-20907" value ("Claude Lemuel Morris (abt. 1911 - 1970)"), linked to "WikiTree person ID" identifier from Lemuel (Q6521531) (which is about a "Biblical king mentioned in Proverbs" thus not related to the same Century & even not the same Millenia).

Thanks,

2A02:2788:22A:100D:4169:D178:FCCC:5DDD 00:17, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

OK., I deleted it. Palotabarát (talk) 06:30, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks 2A02:2788:22A:100D:4169:D178:FCCC:5DDD 16:57, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Cinemaazi film & person ID's

I have created property proposals for the Cinemaazi film ID & Cinemaazi people ID for Indian Cinematic works and people, including for regional language works.

Apologies for adding this here, but the "Ping" function is not working correctly.

Kindly requesting any comments or concerns about the property proposals. Wallacegromit1 (talk) 05:50, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

New discussion

See: Wikidata:Property proposal/Person#Gale ACID BhamBoi (talk) 21:11, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

WorldCat Entities ID

Would it be beneficial to add WorldCat Entities ID (P10832) to the list? Peaceray (talk) 21:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Alexander Keiller Museum Person ID number (AKM_PID)

Hello everyone! I'm currently involved in a project to digitise some of the collections held by the National Trust at Avebury, England. I work for University of York, and it's a join AHRC (UK research council) funded project with the National Trust.

Avebury is an archaeological site (neolithic stone circle and henge), with major excavations in the early 20th century. We're currently creating a database of the people involved in the excavations, and each of them has an AKM_PID. Some of our people are 'famous' enough that they have other biographical IDs, for instance with the Archaeology Data Service, or VIAF.

My question is, would it be appropriate for me to propose AKM_PID as a new property? Are there things I should keep in mind? One possible problem (but perhaps it's not a problem?) is that the AKM_PID database is not online yet so can't be remotely cross-checked, but we do have physical and internal catalogues. I could also do a quick and dirty release of the PIDs via our website. Many thanks for pointers! Medievalfran (talk) 15:59, 30 August 2024 (UTC)