In the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/CS%26S/Structured_Data_on_Wikimedia_Commons_functionalities_in_OpenRefine | original grant application for Structured Data on Commons (SDC) support for OpenRefine ]], we wrote about the SDC reconciliation service:
> [the reconciliation service] allows OpenRefine (and tools outside of OpenRefine) to take a list of file names from Wikimedia Commons and to convert these file names to their corresponding entity identifiers (“M numbers” or M-ids - the Wikimedia Commons equivalent of Q-ids). These M-ids are needed to perform further SDC operations.
Ideally, the Commons reconciliation service recognizes and reconciles the most commonly file name notation formats (with or without File: prefix, with underscores vs spaces in file names) that are produced as exports from the most widely used tools (PetScan, Pagepile, ...).
Additionally, let's discuss and decide whether we indeed want to only allow a list of file names as input, or whether we want to provide more flexible options to end users. Categories, for instance: {T290089}