Wikidata:Property proposal/DCB Number

‎DCB Number

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

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Descriptionidentifier for a chemical substance or compound from Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa)
Data typeExternal identifier
Example 1paracetamol (Q57055) → 06827
Example 2escitalopram (Q423757) → 03512
Example 3Ginkgo biloba (Q43284) → 10719
Example 4almond oil (Q72437444) → 11282
Example 5gallium-68 (Q2516934) → 12607

Motivation

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So I translated the wikipedia article, so it has a bit of explanation: w:Brazilian Nonproprietary Name The main problem would be the naming, as "Brazilian Nonproprietary Name" is not as much known, I have seen a single use of it being shortened to BNN, but I think it would cause more confusion in the long term, so it would be better to use "DCB Number".

The term DCB initially meant to be refer to the nomenclature on how to write the chemical names in Portuguese, but today the DCB is mostly used to refer to the DCB number. Officially they use the term "DCB Number" and not "DCB ID".

On their list, they show leading zeros, 5 characters total, and I haven't seen in their documentation the need for it, maybe I have to dig a bit more. The database I have goes up to 12773 entries, and I guess that if they ever get to 100k entries, they would add another leading zero. So I'm not opposed to storing it without the zeros.

They also include plants with active compounds in the list, so maybe the description could be adjusted, any suggestion for it?

In the official webpage there is a spreadsheet, it contains the DCB Number, the substance name in Portuguese, and the CAS Registry Number (P231), so we could use the CAS Number to easily import it. spreadsheet

Arthurfragoso (talk) 17:07, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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