Wikidata:Property proposal/Open Library publisher ID

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Open Library publisher ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Organization

Descriptionidentifier for a publisher in OpenLibrary.org
RepresentsOpen Library (Q1201876)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainorganization (Q43229)
Allowed values\S+
Example 1New York Institute of Finance (Q16254414)New_York_Institute_of_Finance
Example 2Oxford University Press (Q217595)Oxford_University_Press
Example 3Chariot Books (Q111590747)Chariot_Books
Example 4Polity (Q7225420)Polity_Press
Source
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].
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URLhttps://openlibrary.org/publishers/$1
See alsoOpen Library ID (P648), Open Library subject ID (P3847)
Single-value constraintyes (separator (P4155)subject named as (P1810))
Distinct-values constraintyes
Motivation

Open Library (Q1201876) provides statistics about publishers of books stored on the website. --Horcrux (talk) 13:24, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

  •  Support The only challenge with OpenLibrary is that there could be multiple IDs for the same publisher when there are variations in the name entered, particularly for older works. For example: XYZ Publisher, XYZ Publisher Co. However, this is more a data issue for OpenLibrary. David Nind (talk)
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