---
id: "gutenberg_author_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["texts", "publishing"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gutenberg_author_id"
---

# Project Gutenberg author ID (`gutenberg_author_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of an author, editor, translator or other contributor in the catalogue of Project Gutenberg, as in https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68. The regexp is the format of Wikidata property P1938 and matches all 3000 sampled values.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Texts and  articles (texts), Publishing and print (publishing)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[1-9]\d{0,4}$
```

## Examples

- `68` — Jane Austen
- `136` — Leo Tolstoy
- `https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68` (invalid example) — A URL, not the ID

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P1938`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор автора Project Gutenberg: Номер автора, редактора или переводчика в каталоге Project Gutenberg.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1938>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/gutenberg_author_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/texts/gutenberg_author_id.yaml>