Wikidata:Property proposal/EAN-13

EAN-13

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

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DescriptionEAN-13 is a standard describing a barcode symbology and numbering system used in global trade to identify a specific retail product type.
RepresentsEAN-13 (Q3045807)
Data typeString
Domainproduct (Q2424752)
Allowed values[0-9]{13}
Example 1Lufsig (Q15297359) → 0627644194744
Example 2Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island (Q39403247) → 5902560380064
Example 3AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (Q65582574) → 0730143308489
Example 4Bavaria Holland Beer 0,5 L (Q78640580) → 8714800007191
Planned useAdd the code to existing products and add easily new ones, thanks to the fact that we would have an unequivocal identifier.
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
See alsoISBN-13 (P212), ISSN (P236)

Motivation

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European Article Number (Q357404) is the European standard for identifying a specific product that would be sold. Is the common barcode that everyone see on each item we buy. Books already have ISBN-13 (P212) that is a subset of EAN-13. I think that we could benefit a lot with this new property in order to catalogue well every kind of retail products. There will be a lot of synergies with all the information spread on many online markets (like Amazon, Ebay, but also many many local online stores). Moreover we can finally identify precisely an item, so for example in the food domain we can collect precise accurate information about ingredients and so on (joining the linked data cloud of projects like foodrepo.org and openfoodfacts.org) AlessioMela (talk) 18:50, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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