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Canmore ID
identifier in the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland's Canmore database

Description	ID in the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland's Canmore database (buildings, sites, and ancient monuments of archaeological, architectural and historical interest in Scotland), see Canmore (Q5032525)
Associated item	Historic Environment Scotland (Q21997561)
Applicable "stated in" value	Canmore (Q5032525)
Data type	External identifier
Template parameter	"2" in fr:template:RCAHMS
Domain	place (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Allowed values	[123]?\d{1,5}
Example	Tantallon Castle (Q57803) → 56630 Davara (Q5228156) → 322450
Source	https://canmore.org.uk/
Formatter URL	https://canmore.org.uk/site/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	Special:LinkSearch
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P718 (Q56090118)
Related to country	United Kingdom (Q145) (See 346 others)
See also	Highland Historic Environment Record ID (P7304), Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID (P7630), POWiS ID (P7659), Aberdeenshire HER ID (P7694), Canmore maritime-type ID (P7906), Canmore object-type ID (P7907), Canmore monument-type ID (P7922), NatureScot Sitelink ID (P10015), Standing Waters Database ID (P10051)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other external identifier Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Database reports/Constraint violations/P718 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 108,691 Main statement 108,469 99.8% of uses Qualifier 2 <0.1% of uses Reference 220 0.2% of uses
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Single value: this property generally contains a single value. (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/P718#Single value, SPARQL

Distinct values: this property likely contains a value that is different from all other items. (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/P718#Unique value, SPARQL (every item), SPARQL (by value)

Format “[123]?\d{1,5}|”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P718#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Item “coordinate location (P625)”: Items with this property should also have “coordinate location (P625)”. (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/P718#Item P625, search, SPARQL

Item “country (P17): United Kingdom (Q145)”: Items with this property should also have “country (P17): United Kingdom (Q145)”. (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/P718#Item P17, search, SPARQL

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P718#Scope, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): 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/P718#Entity types

This property is being used by:

• de:Vorlage:Canmore

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Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Heritage designation

Only a subset of Canmore records are for listed / scheduled buildings. Most are not. I've removed the unhelpful constraint requiring a heritage designation for a Canmore ID'd item. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:16, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Removal of two constraints

The single best value constraint has gone; it is inappropriate to suggest users elect a single best value, for items that have multiple P718s. (Example: scheduled monument with many components each having distinct Canmore IDs.) Risk that so-doing removed valid Canmore IDs from wdt:P718 reports.

The 'needs commons category' constraint also gone. It's aspirational at best; only ~3% of items with Canmore ID have commons cats. Images for many Canmore records, being part of a larger whole (e.g. the Scheduled Monument with many components) are most unlikely to get a category since they will instead be categorised under the Scheduled Monument's category. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:34, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

I also removed "Scotland (Q22)" from item-requires-statement constraint (Q21503247) located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) Scotland (Q22), as system checks for strict equality (instead of checking hierarchy) and produces 63308 violations. --Lockal (talk) 07:51, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Anomalies, issues, and corrections

• Glasgow, Cowlairs Incline, Railway Tunnel (Q114077095) : Canmore 103559 and 300833 are duplicates. Jheald (talk) 17:31, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
• St Vincent Terrace Tunnel (Q114077169) : Canmore 277497 NGR reference is mis-keyed (should be 6573 not 6537), and maps appear to show the road crossed as "St Vincent's Crescent" rather than "St Vincent's Terrace" Jheald (talk) 18:25, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Retirement

Its being retired in June in favour of https://www.trove.scot/. We shall see how the transition is done Vicarage (talk) 11:44, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

• See https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/retiral-of-hes-web-services/. I have contacted them about URL changes. I propose creating a new property rather than repurposing this one, as the new site has a different scope Wikidata:Property_proposal/trove.scot_ID. Vicarage (talk) 08:13, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

  They say

  I’m Alex Duthie, the Continuous Improvement Manager for trove.scot.

  Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding links to the Canmore website. You are correct that we have consciously set up the trove.scot URLs to mirror the Canmore URL structure, when it comes to ‘Place’ records.

  As per my response on Wednesday, we are implementing re-directs for Canmore, meaning that Canmore URLs will continue to work, redirecting users to the equivalent trove.scot page.

  These will be in place in time for the retiral of the Canmore website on the 24th June. Vicarage (talk) 15:29, 23 May 2025 (UTC)