Open Library ID

ID openlibid

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

Identifier for a work ("W"), edition ("M") or author ("A") for book data of the Internet Archive

Categories: Objects identifiers
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P648
Quality: 80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations

Regular expression

OL[1-9]\d*[AMW]

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

Value	Description
OL36858W	Twenty Years After
OL3156833A	Anton Chekhov

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Library
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P648

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