Wikidata:Property proposal/Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats

Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat (P6436) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Codes used in the Habitats Directive (Q759874) as identifier for habitats
Represents	Habitats Directive (Q759874)
Data type	External identifier
Allowed values	[0-9A-Z]{4}
Example 1	estuary (Q47053) -> 1130
Example 2	bog forest (Q26269133) -> 91D0
Example 3	Galio sylvatici-Carpinetum betuli (Q9282435) -> 9170
Example 4	reef (Q184358) -> 1170
Source	Habitats Directive
Planned use	Adding the habitat types with their code
Number of IDs in source	260
Expected completeness	complete

Motivation edit

Have the habitats defined by the Habitats Directive (Q759874) with their official Code in Wikidata. --GPSLeo (talk) 19:54, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Support David (talk) 07:21, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I've wondered that no formatter URL was given, since EU often provides its data as Linked Open Data. Indeed there seems to be an RDF download of the data linked from EUNIS (European Nature Information System), https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eunis-db/eunis-database-in-rdf-xml/habitat-types. The entities given there however obviously are a superset of the natura2000 codes and use different identifiers - e.g., for the first example above, estuary, 10005. Since that id links to the according page with tons of information about the definition, related species, protected sites, other habitat classification codes etc., it may be more useful than an identifier which seems to be used only in document texts. For species, EUNIS ID for species (P6177) exists. Another option could be a resolver/redirector for the natura2000 codes to the EUNIS page - if such a thing exists. Jneubert (talk) 18:37, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would make sense to have both. The official ID is used in many cases (e.g. maps) and the EUNIS-ID provides a link to many information but it is not a "official/legal" ID. I think this is not possible with one identifier, so we need two separate Identifiers. --GPSLeo (talk) 20:20, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@GPSLeo: I agree re. having both properties makes sense. Just as a suggestion: An EUNIS habitat ID could be populated via Mix-n-match, with the catalog data extracted from the EEA SPARQL endpoint by a query like this. Once the manual matching is done (or according new entries are created), automatically adding the matching Natura2000 ID would be trivial. Jneubert (talk) 21:28, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Derzno (talk) 09:02, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment should we change the datatype to external-id, just in case a formatter URL becomes available at some point? − Pintoch (talk) 17:54, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Good point. I changed it. --GPSLeo (talk) 18:23, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Derzno, Jneubert, Pintoch, GPSLeo: Done: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat (P6436). − Pintoch (talk) 09:19, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]