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Idea: Wikidata correspondence

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Some policies cataloged in this dataset have associated items in Wikidata, for example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43081078 is the item for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018. It could be beneficial to add an optional column for a corresponding wikidata item. Possible benefits:

- Wikidata might have other identifiers for policies, or simply other info about policies that is out of scope for this dataset, but may be useful to researchers, e.g., to analyze in conjunction with other datasets
- Wikidata might have some statements about policies which are also present in this dataset, and could be used to validate this dataset
- It's also possible that this dataset could be used to selectively create Wikidata items that should exist, but don't yet

This would probably take a fair amount of work to do well, and including a recurring job to check for moved/deleted/updated Wikidata items, though there's probably prior art to draw from other Wikidata<->domain-specific-database projects.

Briefly discussed with @Ainali ([Q23899609](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23899609) 😄) at the The EU Open Source Policy Summit 2023 one month ago.

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