artistid
Artistid is a stable, unique identifier assigned to an artist within a data system or service. Unlike an artist’s name, which can change, be duplicated, or vary by language, an artistid is intended to serve as a persistent key to a single artist’s record. The value is typically an alphanumeric string, a number, or a URI, and it may be opaque to end users while resolvable through the system’s records or an external service.
In music and art catalogs as well as digital libraries, an artistid enables reliable lookups and linking
Disambiguation and data quality are important considerations. Canonicalization, synonyms, and aliases must be managed to reconcile