On 28.04.2016 22:36, Sebastian Burgstaller wrote:
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.
One should also point out to the authorities maintaining these IDs that
they should spend some effort on producing a workable solution for this.
It seems they should be the first to provide a resolver service (or
maybe it would be an "ID search engine" if it is so complicated).
With the qualifiers in place, Wikidata can also be used to achieve this,
of course, but it seems we are just manually reverse engineering
something that should be done at the site of whoever is controlling the
ID registration.
Cheers,
Markus
Cheers,
Sebastian
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Lydia Pintscher
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:54 PM Markus Kroetzsch
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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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