Hi Merilee, thanks for the update. A quick answer is: yes, they could be useful. In Wikidata, we ended up dividing the Item of a book in 2 level: *work* and *edition *(it is a sort of *manifestation-expression* mashup).
In the Wikimedia world, we thought, we have work-level entities: the *Hamlet* article on Wikipedia is at work level, so is *Pinocchio*, etc. When you have a Wikipedia article about a book, often, is at work level. It's about the book in general, not a particular edition. On the other hand, in Wikisource we speak about particular edition or translation of a book. It's a manifestation level (or expression, or both: never really understood the difference :-) So, yeah: in theory, in Wikidata we could import these IDs. Aubrey PS: these kind of distinctions are quite subtle and difficult, if you want to discuss them please refer to the https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force page. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Some of you have known about this project which has been in the works for > some time – works IDs. For those of you who did know about it, they have > been released. Huzzah! > > > > http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data/worldcat-entities.en.html > > > > For those of you who are scratching your heads and wondering why this is > important or how it might be useful, I offer you a great example: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance > > > > Right now, the convention in InfoBox Book, etc. is to note the ISBN and > other IDs associated with the first edition of a work. Although this is > useful, in an information retrieval context it is not as useful as it might > be – adding one or more work IDs to the mix would be useful because the > work ID can bring back more information about editions published in > different locations, on different dates, etc. > > > > http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/12477503.html > > > > I’m curious to hear what you think. Are these identifiers useful in the > Wikimedia world? Right now OCLC numbers are used, as are VIAF ids, and > Dewey numbers. > > > > Best, > > > > Merrilee > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > >
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