Wikidata:Property proposal/BNB agent ID

‎BNB agent ID

Not done

Description	identifier of a person or organization in the British National Bibliography (bl.natbib-lod.org)
Represents	British National Bibliography (Q919757)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5), organization (Q43229)
Allowed values	[0-9]{15}
Example 1	William Shakespeare (Q692) → 491704982331265
Example 2	Miguel de Cervantes (Q5682) → 351704982316427
Example 3	Douglas Adams (Q42) → 631704982663352
Example 4	Isaac Asimov (Q34981) → 621704982358114
Example 5	Plato (Q859) → 481704982316161
Example 6	Metropolitan Museum of Art (Q160236) → 391704983208877
Source	https://bl.natbib-lod.org/
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Number of IDs in source	>100000
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://bl.natbib-lod.org/agents/$1

Comment I asked to a person involved in the construction of the BNB interface if the IDs are stable and the answer was that their stability is not yet guaranteed, it will be only in some months; so I think we should wait to avoid storing IDs which could quickly become obsolete; I will be emailed when the IDs have become stable, anyway I can repeat the question in 1-2 months if I don't get any update in the meanwhile. --Epìdosis 15:54, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Epìdosis: Thank you, again, —Uzume (talk) 17:28, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Epìdosis, would you like to give your opinion? Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 18:17, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have received no updates, so I think the clusterization is still not definitive; I suggest to put the status "on hold". Epìdosis 20:13, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not done, @Epìdosis, Uzume: Not created due to a lack of support. -- Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:26, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]