Wikidata:Property proposal/Web of Science ID

Web of Science ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: Web of Science ID (work) (P8372) (Talk and documentation)

Description	unique academic work identifier assigned in Web of Science bibliographic database
Represents	Web of Science (Q1201886)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	written work (Q47461344)
Allowed values	[A-Z\d]{15} (usually \d{15})
Example 1	Development and validation of a UPLC-ESI-MS method for quantitation of the anti-Alzheimer drug galantamine and other Amaryllidaceae alkaloids in plants (Q96337074) → 000503382400004
Example 2	Ecological guild evolution and the discovery of the world's smallest vertebrate (Q15567682) → 000301355700052
Example 3	Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (Q1895685) → A1953UA43400007
Example 4	Trust and nuanced profile similarity in online social networks (Q61963594) → 000271214700001
Example 5	Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla (Q56579959) → 000177759000002
Format and edit filter validation	15 character string
Source	Web of Science (Q1201886)
Planned use	I intend to correlate a series of articles with the WoSID
Number of IDs in source	90 million +
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=Publons&SrcAuth=Publons_CEL&KeyUT=WOS:$1&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
Robot and gadget jobs	Maybe User:Research Bot
See also	Scopus EID (P1154), DOI (P356)

Motivation

Web of Science uses a unique identifier for each academic work. --Pablo Busatto (talk) 20:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support This would be useful - however, are we sure we don't already have this ID somewhere under another name? ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:13, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support definitely seems helpful to be able to crosswalk between the databases without relying on DOIs etc. Andrew Gray (talk) 22:16, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. Nomen ad hoc (talk) 12:10, 19 June 2020 (UTC).
•  Support --Jneubert (talk) 19:23, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Vahurzpu (talk) 20:19, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Strange that we dont have it yet. --Hannes Röst (talk) 20:38, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
• @Pablo Busatto, ArthurPSmith, Andrew Gray, Nomen ad hoc, Jneubert, Vahurzpu: I have created this property as Web of Science ID (work) (P8372). But after creation I found a problem: Web of Science contains multiple databases and the ID are prefixed by database. The above ID (prefixed with WOS:) are about Web of Science Core, and other databases (such as BIOSIS, DRCA, INSPEC, etc.) using different prefix. So we may either:

1. Limit the property to Web of Science Core only, which is the status quo
2. Add WOS: prefix to all IDs and also allow IDs from other databases, but 1. one article will have more than one IDs and 2. the formatter only works for articles indexed in WOS Core or DRCA (regardless of the prefix used), and will not work for other entries.

--GZWDer (talk) 13:52, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

@GZWDer: It definitely shouldn't include INSPEC. I'd limit it to WOS/Web of Science Core (your option 1). ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:24, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

OK, I have added a notice in the property.--GZWDer (talk) 15:29, 24 June 2020 (UTC)