Wikidata:Property proposal/CofE archives ID

CofE archives ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionidentifier for a catalogue item in the Church of England's National Church Institutions Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue, including the archives of Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre.
RepresentsArchives and Manuscripts Catalogue (Q106477097)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domaincreative work (Q17537576), document (Q49848), archives (Q56648173)
Allowed valuesvariable length string with alphanumerics, forward slashes, commas, and + signs, pattern varies
Example 1Lambeth Choirbook (Q3831824)MSS/1
Example 2Mac Durnan Gospels (Q6722262)MSS/1370
Example 3Speculum Britanniae: Hartfordshire (Q106458280)MSS/521
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].
Planned useFor recording manuscripts in the Lambeth Palace Library collection
Number of IDs in source~500K
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URLhttps://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=$1
See alsoUK National Archives ID (P3029), Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ID (P3702), CofE archives name ID (P9485), CofE archives place ID (P9491)
Applicable "stated in"-valueArchives and Manuscripts Catalogue (Q106477097)
Distinct-values constraintyes

Motivation edit

The Church of England's National Church Institutions’ Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue contains detailed records of half a million archive items, including ~34,000 manuscript items in the Lambeth Palace Library (Q30264838). The depth of detail available in this database is exemplified by MS 278, William Smith's Baronagium Angliae of 1597.

Note that despite the examples, which are all part of the manuscript collection, IDs like "Bell/118-183/150-157/153/1-4,+6,+8,+10,+13-19,+21,+41,+44,+125,+140,+145,+179-80,+191,+194,+208,+212-14" are also possible.

The database also has identifiers for Names of people, organizations, and families, and for Places. I will be proposing companion properties for these additional identifiers:

[Edited to add new proposals.] - PKM (talk) 20:01, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

(Note: property was originally proposed as "Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue ID")