Wikidata:Property proposal/hours per week

hours per week

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This property was requested after extensive consultation with the Wikidata community and experts on ed tech, OER, global and national curriculum, education policy, and digitization. Over the two rounds of the consultation, we received input from 31 individuals representing various global perspectives and areas of expertise to aid in the full implementation of the Wikidata for Education project.

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

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Descriptionqualifier to show the total number of hours per week.
Data typeQuantity
Domainquantity
Example 1English studies (Q27968) → 4
time allocation
  60 hours
hours per week 4
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Example 2social studies (Q14565700) → 5
Example 3information and communications technology (Q5268834) → 3
Planned useTo emphasize the hours spent per week. Just using hours or duration (P2047) does not give clarity to whether it is per day, per week or month or per year. Read more about the data model WD4E Data Model. Check out How it is used in the test environment Q223773.
Wikidata projectWikidata for Education

Motivation

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This property will be used to determine the amount of hours that are spent on a particular subject/course/module in a week by an instructor. This property will help in comparisons such as determining the time spent on one subject against another, or the amount of time spent on a specific subject in different countries. Again, it could be used in other jurisdictions to indicate the number of hours required per week.

This shows a specific measure of time and its occurrence, hours per week. duration (P2047) really works for showing the duration but can get confusing. The user cannot express the occurrence of the activity using just duration (P2047). In this case, this property will allow one to state, the number of hours per week an activity happens for or should happen for and its occurrence. In the examples (relative figures), English language is supposed to be taught 60 hours with 4 hours study time per week (Hours per week), Social studies is having a total time allocation for 50 with 5 hours per week and Information and communication Technology which has a total time allocation of 40 has a 3 hour per week tuition. Dnshitobu (talk) 11:28, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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  Comment Wouldn't duration (P2047) be sufficient? Abbe98 (talk) 10:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

duration (P2047) would be limiting. It does not state the occurrence. This property specifies the occurrence using the 'per week' phrase. Thank you for the comment. It is great. Andrews Lartey (talk) 22:57, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder if a qualifier could do the trick instead to ensure the modeling works for more cases. For your use case one could for example consider curriculums that are based around the total number of hour rather than hours per week(like in Scandinavia). Abbe98 (talk) 15:17, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
A qualifier could do the trick. It is worth considering how adding this will change the structure of the model. Please let me know if you have further recommendations whiles I provide update on the changes to the model and its feasibility soon. Andrews Lartey (talk) 20:51, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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