Feature Request - get agent data from Wikidata

[Jegelewicz]

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I often add Wikidata identifiers to agents in Arctos, then I have to manually copy over birth and death dates and any other pertinent information. In yesterday's Bionomia webinar I discovered that Specify can import data from Wikidata, ORCiD and Library of Congress - we should be able to match that.

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Less manual labor in the age of AI

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If I add a Wikidata address to an agent, Arctos will pull at least:

birth date
death date
alternate names

WIKIDATA REST API
● New way to access and edit data of an
individual entity
● Example:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wi
kibase/v0/entities/items/Q1
● Documentation: Wikidata:REST AP

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Keep copy pasting

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[dustymc]

Not sure there's anything to discuss here - seems like a good idea, probably technically trivial, ideally would be part of doing the same thing to ORCID and LoC and etc., but also doesn't seem like anything that could be justified for prioritization under current resources. Move to discussions/wishlist?

@mkoo thoughts on prioritizing (funding, whatever) this sort of thing?