Wikidata:Property proposal/Artnet artist ID
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Artnet artist ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier of an artist, in the Artnet database of art auction results |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | people whose art has sold at auction |
| Example | Edward Davis (Q18559719) → edward-thompson-davis |
| Source | http://www.artnet.com/artists/ |
| Formatter URL | http://www.artnet.com/artists/$1/past-auction-results |
- Motivation
Artnet (Q266566) is a service which lists art auction results. Freely-available pages such as the one in the example display galleries of artworks, many now in private collections. These pages link to pages on individual artworks, such as this one, with metadata such as date, size and type. The database is said to include over 320,000 artists. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:16, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
- Discussion
Support. Thierry Caro (talk) 17:39, 11 March 2017 (UTC)- Support. This looks like a great source for art data. The provenance data is likely to be very useful for those in the art world. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 17:01, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support, useful marked it as ready. -Zolo (talk) 08:53, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
