as_pid function

Convert an input to a property PID

Convert an input string to the most likely property PID

as_pid(x)

Arguments

• x: a vector, data frame, or tibble of strings representaing wikidata properties

Returns

if the inputted string is a valid PID, return the string. If the inputted string matches a property label, return its PID. If the inputted string matches multiple labels of multiple properties, return the PID of the first hit.

Examples

# if input string is a valid PID
as_pid("P50")
# if input string matches multiple item labels
as_pid("author")
# if input string matches a single unique label
as_pid("Scopus author ID")