Wikidata talk:Property proposal/OpenSanctions ID

Hi! This is Friedrich, I'm the principal maintainer of OpenSanctions.org. Since I'm still somewhat new to WD (and the social processes around it), please bear with me. The weakness (to me) of adding OpenSanctions IDs to WD is that we're at the same time trying to converge on QIDs for entities where available - so the "OpenSanctions ID" would only ever make sense in scenarios where our database is incomplete/unreconciled. Maybe the better thing for us (at OpenSanctions) to do would be to add a form on each entity that's not identified with a QID yet to let people submit whatever WD item they think this entity corresponds with - so that we can then re-write the ID on OpenSanctions to match. --OpenSanctions (talk) 14:26, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

As an alternative, what I would like to suggest is an "OpenSanctions Dataset" property. This could be used to show which datasets in the OpenSanctions corpus a particular Wikidata item is part of (e.g. `us_ofac`, `ch_seco_sanctions`, and `sanctions`). One item (e.g. "Saddam Hussein") could be part of many OpenSanctions datasets. We could upload such claims as part of our ETL pipeline in the future for all OpenSanctions entities using Wikidata QIDs. It would allow users to see a) that there's additional details about an entity on OpenSanctions and b) that they are -- according to us -- sanctioned or in some other way a person/entity of interest. --OpenSanctions (talk) 14:26, 26 January 2022 (UTC)