Wikidata:Property proposal/Dictionary of Irish Biography ID

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Dictionary of Irish Biography ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionidentifier in the Dictionary of Irish Biography
RepresentsDictionary of Irish Biography (Q5273969)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5)
Allowed values[a-z]\d+[a-z]?
Example 1Maeve Binchy (Q152690) → a10019
Example 2Harry Blaney (Q15992782) → a10022
Example 3Bo Almqvist (Q19646639) → a10018
Sourcehttps://dib.cambridge.org/
External linksUse 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 useA researcher has constructed a mapping from a set of DIB IDs to DBPedia and the intent is to use this to add those IDs to Wikidata. (Edit) Thanks User:Gerwoman below for drawing my attention to a Mix'n'Match catalogue which also has a few hundred matches.
Number of IDs in source~10,000
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=$1
See alsoOxford Dictionary of National Biography ID (P1415), Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID (P1648)

Motivation[edit]

The Dictionary of Irish Biography (Q5273969) (DIB) is published by Cambridge University Press (Q912887) and is a biographical dictionary (Q1787111), similar to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Q17565097) and Dictionary of Welsh Biography (Q5273977). MartinPoulter (talk) 12:22, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

@MartinPoulter, Gerwoman, Andrew Gray, Sic19, Dhx1, Vulphere: ✓ Done --Kolja21 (talk) 15:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]