Ancestors

Written by Rita Singer on 2024-08-15 at 10:58

It's not your usual workday when you find yourself in the situation of having to create a unique identifier for Jesus of Nazareth. Birth and death locations are easy. But what do I put down for his birth and death dates? Occupation? Is 'Christ' his office title, a 'known as' or an alias? There's only so much wriggle room with the controlled vocab here.

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-08-15 at 11:17

Advice by my former colleague: just use what's on Wikidata.

Wikidata:

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-08-15 at 11:20

Whoever put the Wikidata together was obviously having a field day.

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Toot

Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-05 at 15:00

And now, four months later the Messiah pops up in another article and drags three of his disciples along. It's going to be a long day of creating IDs.

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Descendants