Request: Support Add By Identifier for Wikidata QID

pierrickp

Hello,

Would it be possible to support to add an item via it's QID from Wikidata ?

As Wikidata is becoming a good resource for scientific bibliography with Scholia¹ and the Cita add-on² for Zotero, this functionality would be useful.
Zotero is already a great tool to contribute bibliographic data in Wikidata and this functionality would kind of "close the loop", as a QID can be a stable identifier for every kind of work.

The Hub³ might help for this task.

Also Wikidata gives the possibility to reference an Open Access version of a paper wherever it is on the web via the property P953⁴. And is a great way to contribute and visualize data with the Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO)⁵, so it might be seriously used to analyze scientific publications in an open way (if it's not already).


1. https://scholia.toolforge.org/
2. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero/Cita
3. https://hub.toolforge.org/
4. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P953
5. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Citation_Typing_Ontology

adamsmith

QIDs can of course be all types of things, though, so we'd want to restrict that to a subset, no? Which ones make sense?

pierrickp

There is a good list in the translator "Wikidata QuickStatements.js", the variable typeMapping¹ makes the correspondence between Zotero item types and their "Instance of" (P31) a wikidata element.


1. https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/d89c17061e4d1199114407c41d75c3ba435c2f5a/Wikidata QuickStatements.js#L39

zahids

I would second this request.

I work with old books that dont have an ISBN identifier. I had failed to find an open, collaborative system that can provide such books with a unique identifier until I came across QID and wikidata. This seems to be an excellent open source tool for these purposes.

Juandev

@adamsmith, do you think you need to limit in on a subset? I would say those items that are not in the translator would simply not go through.

adamsmith

Depends on what you mean by limit -- I don't think Zotero should send Wikidata API requests for IDs it won't know how what to do with: why create unnecessary traffic and waste users time?

Juandev

I see, that's a good point.

Juandev

But thinking on that back, Zotero would need to send a request anyway because, from QID, you are not able to determine in advance what instance of the item is.

jilltxt

I would find this very useful as well!