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We haveauthor IDs but what if we want to link a work, or a specific passage of a work? We're better of just providing a generic CTS URN (which is besides used by a number of different sites hosting editions of Greco-Roman works.

An example of this would be giving the exact 'path' of the passage where Thucydides mentions this concept:https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q639493

More info about this (widely used) standard:https://www.opengreekandlatin.org/what-is-a-cts-urn/ –The precedingunsigned comment was added byAddyLockPool (talk • contribs) at 10:02, May 29, 2025 (UTC).

•  Comment @AddyLockPool: This sounds like a good idea. The proposal needs some work though:

• datatype should be external-id - this is an identifier for a piece of text (and we don't have a URN datatype in Wikidata anyway)
• Will thehttp://data.perseus.org/catalog/ prefix work for all these URN's? If so it can be used as formatter URL
• More importantly - your examples should show a Wikidata ID (or Commons Media file) that will be identified by the given URN's - see other property proposals. People often use the {{Statement}} template to make this clearer.

Good luck with this proposal!ArthurPSmith (talk)17:55, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, thanks for the support!

1. That should be sorted (and sounds like a good idea, I'm sure if Wikidata ever got a URN datatype they would be easy to 'convert' (as the 'text suffix' coincides with the URN)

2. Yes, it is very much so (links 'encoded' with URNs are designed to be straightforward to construct after all)

3. Yes of course, if I get the time I will!AddyLockPool (talk)18:14, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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