Property talk:P4272

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Dominic in topic Change scope

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DPLA subject term
term for an item's subject area in the Digital Public Library of America
Descriptionidentifier for a subject area in the Digital Public Library of America
Associated itemDigital Public Library of America (Q2944483)
Applicable "stated in" valueDigital Public Library of America (Q2944483)
Data typeExternal identifier
DomainDigital Public Library of America (Q2944483) (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Allowed values
According to this template: [^\s\/]+
According to statements in the property:
[^\s/].*
When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Exampleanimal (Q729)"Animalia" Animalia
Unisphere (Q717956)"Unisphere%20(New%20York,%20N.Y.)" Unisphere (New York, N.Y.)
Sourcehttps://dp.la/search
External linksUse in sister projects: [ar][de][en][es][fr][he][it][ja][ko][nl][pl][pt][ru][sv][vi][zh][commons][species][wd][en.wikt][fr.wikt].
Formatter URLhttps://dp.la/search?subject="$1"
Related to country  United States of America (Q30) (See 771 others)
See alsoDPLA ID (P760)
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Proposal discussionProposal discussion
Current uses
Total1,341
Main statement1,33699.6% of uses
Qualifier20.1% of uses
Reference30.2% of uses
Search for values
[create Create a translatable help page (preferably in English) for this property to be included here]
Format “[^\s/].*: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P4272#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL
Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200), Wikibase MediaInfo (Q59712033): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P4272#Entity types
Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P4272#Scope, SPARQL

Change scope

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This property makes very little sense as currently scoped. "subject" is an uncontrolled, non-unique field in the DPLA data model. The URL formatter just links to a search query. There is no guarantee that all of the items in the linked query are actually related to the Wikidata item, and some of the ones currently in use surely have false positives ("Baltimore," "Maine," etc.). In fact, this is not really an ID at all, just a field in the data, and DPLA has never referred to it as such. And the link is not a URI where the term is defined, just an advanced search URL. What makes more sense is for this property not to be applied to Wikidata items about terms, as it currently is, but applied to items about DPLA works, to mark those works' subjects, as described by cataloging institution. For example, it makes more sense to apply DPLA subject term (P4272)Urban parks at M9737159, as per that specific catalog record, than at urban park (Q22746). Dominic (talk) 00:10, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

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