Wikidata:Property proposal/ARCHON number

ARCHON code edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: ARCHON code (P3642) (Talk and documentation)

Description	reference used by UK archives to disambiguate each other. Identifiers have also been minted to refer to some international repositories.
Data type	External identifier
Domain	organisations
Allowed values	\d+
Example	London Metropolitan Archives (Q6670589) → 74
Source	https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Formatter URL	http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=$1
See also	P3029

Motivation

These codes are used routinely by UK archives to refer to themselves and allow us to specify that a particular collection is in one place rather than another. With a country code added, they often form the basis of catalogue references - e.g. GB 73 xxxx is an item in the V&A Archive of Art and Design, where 73 is the repository's ARCHON number (see field at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a/A13530504). GB813 begins objects in the archive of the Postal Museum (e.g. http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_2009_0113_3).

I hope we will soon be in a position to add more authority data here but this is a start.

Mr impossible (talk) 16:17, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion: I'm afraid I don't quite follow what this is supposed to do - it sounds useful but maybe an example that would be more familiar would be good? I have no idea what "Touchstones Rochdale" is! ArthurPSmith (talk) 23:09, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the example. But actually Touchstones Rochdale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstones_Rochdale) while bafflingly named, is a really good example of why we need a common identifier. Because in the National Archive system it's Rochdale Local Studies Library and Archive (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a/A13532233) --Mr impossible (talk) 10:32, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support Definitely useful - would hopefully let us build a fairly solid collection of items on archives, and as noted with the Postal Museum example would let third parties do a lookup on a record number and get structured data for the holding institute. Andrew Gray (talk) 13:20, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:32, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Mr impossible, Pigsonthewing, ArthurPSmith, Andrew Gray: Done ChristianKl (talk) 16:40, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]