tetrak_authority.model

The authority record: one entity, its names, its keys and its identifiers.

An Entity is what a snapshot holds for one Wikidata item. Its names are every label and alias Wikidata carries in every language, plus a place’s native and official names; its keys are the fold keys of those names, which is what a lookup matches on; its identifiers are the external authority numbers Wikidata records, so a catalogue record can be linked onward to VIAF, the GND, ISNI or GeoNames.

Module Attributes

KINDS	The kinds of entity a snapshot holds.
NAME_KINDS	Where a name comes from in Wikidata.
PREFERRED_LANGUAGES	The languages whose label is preferred as the established form, in order.

Functions

established_form(names[, preferred])	The label in the first preferred language present, else any label, else any name.
key_of(text[, script])	The fold key a lookup matches on: the folded words, sorted.

Classes

Entity(id, kind, label, names, keys[, ...])	One authority record.
Name(text, language, kind[, key])	One name of an entity, as Wikidata records it.