Wikidata:Property proposal/Bibliography for subject
Bibliographic property for subject
editOriginally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person
| Description | Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point. |
|---|---|
| Data type | Property |
| Domain | generally human (Q5) |
| Allowed values | Wikidata properties for external identifier or urls |
| Example 1 | Thomas Vetter (Q59534461)→Google Scholar author ID (P1960) (meaning: see Q59534461#P1960) |
| Example 2 | Thomas R. Vetter (Q131717503)→ResearchGate profile ID (P2038) (meaning: see Q131717503#P2038) |
| Example 3 | Thomas Vetter (Q131716926)→ResearchGate profile ID (P2038) (meaning: see Q131716926#P2038) |
| See also | bibliography (P8625) |
Motivation
editThis could help people using https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org
Some authors curate their list of works at a specific website (or manual/automated curation is done there). To check if a given work was written by them, it's easiest to start there even if it might not be comprehensive.
For some subjects or unique personal names, this may be obvious or impossible to determine, so the property shouldn't be used there.
In the GUI the value wont link to the place with that property, but when querying the data one can assemble it to work. Author-disambiguator and other tools could want to highlight that property.
An alternative could be to use a url-property and create an urls from the other property.
Discussion
edit- see my proposal above. e 14:55, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment A URL property might make more sense - often the best bibliography is at a home institution website which wouldn't ordinarily be associated with an existing property or identifier. However a lot of these can be unreliable - it's unclear what "curation" has gone into some of these lists other than a simple search by name, which may have both false matches and missed records. On what basis would this property be used, ie. what evidence of it being a good (maintained?) bibliography would be expected? ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:18, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- It would be a decision by whoever disambiguates them. I trust you have much more experience in this than others.
- For some, I added the home institution with "official website", "described at URL" or "CV Url". The problem is that not everybody keeps them updated there. Habits might also differ from one country to the other.
- For the automated ones, I found Dimensions problematic, ResearchGate contributor not particularly helpful. DBLP seems to work well (when they have publications). Likely others draw different conclusions depending on the people they research.
- I hope this makes it easier when revisiting dozens of people with the same name. Or tackle "Jiří Černý" somebody else gave up on. e 11:06, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose I understand the problem but I think this is what references are for. Dissambiguation tools can use references the same way, as far as I can see. —Ismael Olea (talk) 10:19, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Not done. No support for creation. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 01:58, 28 March 2025 (UTC)