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Integrate Wikidata

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Affects: Data Affects: Partners Lead: @RayBB Module: Wikidata Needs: Breakdown Priority: 3 Theme: Identifiers Type: Epic Type: Feature Request
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Description

There's a ton of stuff that we could be leveraging Wikidata for in addition to just linking author records to Wikidata.

- Add Wikidata IDs to works (and add OL work IDs to Wikidata)
- Addressed in #3430
- Import book series from Wikidata like _[A Song of Fire and Ice](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45875)_
- Import from Wikidata awards like _[NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books (Q20899118)](https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q20899118&lang=en)_
- Import more photos, information about awards received, links to interesting places (Wikipedia in N languages)
- Import places associated with authors, works, etc to offer interesting OL stuff about places

Etc, etc. Basically use Wikidata to bling it up without having to spend a lot of time/effort.

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