Wikidata:Property proposal/LibraryThing series identifier

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LibraryThing series identifier

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionauthority control for series on LibraryThing
RepresentsLibraryThing (Q742640)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainseries of creative works (Q7725310) (primarilly, but not limited to book series (Q277759))
Allowed values\d{1,8}
Example 1The Survivors (Q18450006) → 267573
Example 2Harry Potter (Q8337) → 1
Example 3The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Q682339) → 6144
Sourcehttps://www.librarything.com
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].
Number of IDs in source200,000+
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URLhttps://www.librarything.com/nseries/$1
See alsoLibraryThing work ID (P1085), LibraryThing author ID (P7400), Goodreads series ID (P6947), OverDrive series ID (P7648)

Motivation

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LibraryThing contains a sizeable and valuable catalogue of primarilly book series (incl. publisher series). Lokal_Profil 21:12, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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Note that w:de:Vorlage:LibraryThingReihe is not (necessarily) compatible with this identifier since it relies on the old implementation of series on LibraryThing. It coild be trivially updated to support it though. /Lokal_Profil 21:12, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The following should also be convertible. Use in sister projects:
@Lokal Profil, YULdigitalpreservation: ✓ Done LibraryThing series ID (P8513) Pamputt (talk) 05:49, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. /Lokal_Profil 18:46, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]