Wikidata:Property proposal/Microsoft Academic Author ID

Microsoft Academic Author ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Not done

Description	identifier for authors in Microsoft Academic
Represents	Microsoft Academic (Q28136779)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	\d{8,10}
Example 1	Paul Emery (Q19859634) → 2144675545
Example 2	Jürgen Habermas (Q76357) → 2038147313
Example 3	Noam Chomsky (Q9049) → 2049461923
Source	https://academic.microsoft.com/
Number of IDs in source	253,401,752 authors
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/$1
See also	proposals for Microsoft Academic Source ID Microsoft Academic Work ID Microsoft Academic Author ID Microsoft Academic Institution ID

Motivation

Connect Wikidata to the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph. Like the proposals above for Dimensions properties, this will help to disambiguate authors and identify related items. Microsoft Academic (Q28136779) is free and offers API access to the graph. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 06:26, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support David (talk) 07:14, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose identifier scheme seems to be the same for all four proposals. Just make one for all four. --- Jura 08:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support having distinct identifiers is good practice and will help enforce more meaningful constraints, keep track of coverage for each type, add third-party resolvers which might only work for a given type. − Pintoch (talk) 11:54, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
  • I suppose you mean properties, not identifiers. No it's not good practice to split an identifier among different properties merely because one doesn't want to use complex constraints. --- Jura 09:04, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 07:49, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment looks like the website is having issues - all the examples lead to error pages for me (for a few days at least) − Pintoch (talk) 22:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

  Ça ne marche toujours pas, chez toi, Pintoch ? Nomen ad hoc (talk) 18:17, 27 December 2018 (UTC).

  It only works with Chromium (Chrome), but not with Firefox. − Pintoch (talk) 18:20, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

*: Same for me... Nomen ad hoc (talk) 15:39, 27 December 2018 (UTC).

•  Support Odd...: it now works. Nomen ad hoc (talk) 15:57, 27 December 2018 (UTC).
•  Comment this was marked as ready but ArthurPSmith, Sic19 and Jura1 have expressed a preference for just one property for all types - should we create this as a generic property then? − Pintoch (talk) 20:02, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 14:38, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose I vote for single property as per Jura1. Please note that
  • a lot if these author entries are duplicates. Eg I had about 15 entries until I "claimed" them and MAG merged them.
  • MAG has 225k (!) Machine-learned hierarchical Fields of Science --Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 10:49, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Not done, use Microsoft Academic ID (P6366) − Pintoch (talk) 14:03, 15 January 2019 (UTC)