Thanks for your replies!

I like the idea of a resolver service on labs, but I think it cannot solve
the issue. e.g. for ChEMBL and IUPHAR (international union of
pharmacology), there is no way to guess from the identifier onto the
sub-domain this identifier belongs to. For ChEMBL, the pattern is: 'CHEMBL'
prefix, followed by several digits, for IUPHAR IDs: digits only. For a
resolver service to work in this case, it would either need to hold all
ChEMBL IDs or would need to guess all ~5 URLs in order to find the correct
one. Both approaches do not seem sustainable at this point.

So a temporary workaround could be to add the correct url as a qualifier,
which I think would be doable, as most external ids will not have
additional qualifiers anyway.

Cheers,
Sebastian

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Lydia Pintscher <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:54 PM Markus Kroetzsch <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Doing this in Wikidata is tricky and takes time. I don't even see how to
>> do it well (note that external tools like Reasonator or SQID would also
>> need to implement the same smart resolution mechanism). Having several
>> properties for the same thing just because of different ID types used
>> does not seem very compelling either.
>>
>> How about building a little external referrer service that redirects IDs
>> to the correct resource based on their structure? This could be a simple
>> PHP-based web service hosted on Labs. In the end, the formatter URL is
>> just for users to click on, so as long as you end up at the right place,
>> this little indirection is maybe no problem.
>>
>
> Yeah I also don't have a good solution for this case so far. IMDB is also
> causing issues. I think creating a service on labs is at least a good
> solution until we have something better built into Wikibase.
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
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