Wikidata:Property proposal/COVIDWHO ID

Description	identifier of the article in the WHO COVID-19 Global literature on coronavirus disease database. Format: "covidwho-" followed by 1 to 5 digits
Represents	WHO COVID-19 Global literature on coronavirus disease database (Q91308021)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	scholarly article (Q13442814)
Allowed values	`covidwho-[1-9]\d*` (Note the difference with "covidwhomdl-" followed by Pubmed ids sometimes displayed)
Example 1	Recent advances in the detection of respiratory virus infection in humans (Q82838328): article published 15 January 2020 → covidwho-2
Example 2	Pneumonia of Unknown Etiology in Wuhan, China: Potential for International Spread Via Commercial Air Travel (Q82840590): scientific article published on 14 January 2020 → covidwho-4
Example 3	A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019 (Q86729469): scientific article published on 20 February 2020 → covidwho-8
Example 4	A Novel Coronavirus Emerging in China — Key Questions for Impact Assessment (Q86730001): scientific article published on 20 February 2020 → covidwho-9
Source	https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/
Formatter URL	https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/en/$1
See also	DOI (P356): serial code used to uniquely identify digital objects like academic papers (use upper case letters only) PubMed ID (P698): identifier for journal articles/abstracts in PubMed

I opted for the use of the "covidwho-" format of the identifiers.

These are available as "covidence#" in the downloadable file (with "#" instead of "covidwho-").
In the web interface,
- these are either directly displayed (as "covidwho-.."),
- or, they can be found in the xml format as "alternate ID" for entries showing "covidwhomdl-"-identifiers for "MEDLINE" entries. The Medline number is generally stored here with PubMed ID (P698).

If users enter identifiers in the "covidwhomdl-"-format, I suppose we could convert/autofix them to Pubmed ids and complete this property afterwards.

Please help complete the proposal. (Add your motivation for this property here.) --- Jura 09:40, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support this external identifier, giving the possibility to linking the articles to WHO managed database. John Samuel (talk) 11:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Useful link to WHO database. The database is nice (support for 7 different languages) and the ID enables integration. TiagoLubiana (talk) 01:27, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Having this property would be helpful, since the dataset is useful for keeping track of the COVID-19 literature. Any use of it for imports would need to be preceded with some cleanup though, e.g. their DOI column mixes actual DOIs with several types of strings containing or preceding DOIs, while some DOIs are actually listed under "Accession". As for the property label, I'd base it on what the WHO calls it ("WHO COVID-19 database"), so perhaps "WHO COVID-19 ID". The choice of the proposed formatter URL makes sense to me. As for converting to and from PubMed, this is not always possible, since they seem to include some journals not indexed there. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:11, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- The database there seems to be called "WHO COVID-19 Global literature on coronavirus disease". As this seemed too long for a property label, I used "COVIDWHO" actually used in the identifiers. It also avoids confusing them with th other identifier they are using ("covidwhomdl"). --- Jura 13:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done - hoping Jura will ping participants... ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:21, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]