On 17 May 2017 at 20:20, Andra Waagmeester <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 17 May 2017 at 16:28, Andra Waagmeester <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Just to add to Egon's comment IRI's can also be added to Wikidata using
>> > the
>> > Property P2888 - Exact Match.
>>
>> I wouldn't advise doing this when we already have the ID in a specific
>> property.
>>
>
> The ID usually points to human readable website, whereas in RDF the items
> use IRI to distinguish between concepts. An IRI points to the related node
> in the linked data cloud.  In the context of being able to link with
> external (RDF) datasets, using the ID from a specific property does not
> work.

That's what we have P1921 for.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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