Wikidata:Property proposal/EGID
EGID edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | Swiss Federal Building Identifier (EGID) |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | architectural structure (Q811979) |
| Allowed values | \d{1,9} |
| Allowed units | integer |
| Example 1 | Fraumünster (Q690944) → 302040792 |
| Example 2 | Grossmünster (Q684948) → 302040349 |
| Example 3 | St. Paul's Church (Q2064298) → 2243229 |
| Example 4 | Curti-Haus (Q14544694) → 1124405 |
| Source | https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/registers/federal-register-buildings-dwellings.html |
| Planned use | populate EGID for cultural heritage buildings in Switzerland |
| Number of IDs in source | 900000000 (max allowed value); about 2.5 million (estimated current number of ids) |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) (always incomplete) |
| Formatter URL | https://api.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/ech/MapServer/ch.bfs.gebaeude_wohnungs_register/$1_0/extendedHtmlPopup |
| Robot and gadget jobs | n/a |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings (Q99417842) |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
| Wikidata project | Wikidata:WikiProject_Built_heritage |
Motivation edit
State-managed property for identifying buildings. Used as foreign key in other datasets, such as those from city governments, when talking about buildings. (proposed by Sascha)
Discussion edit
Support fixed examples, added regex --Emu (talk) 16:30, 30 March 2021 (UTC)- Support --1-Byte (talk) 13:43, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- Support, an important property for Switzerland.--Arbnos (talk) 15:17, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
- Support Thanks Sascha, do you know whether we can map these to cantonal identifiers such as Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID (P8493)? --Hannes Röst (talk) 14:53, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hannes Röst: We can map them via their street address, but are there really only 28 heritage buildings in Thurgau? —Sascha (talk) 14:35, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Sascha, Emu, 1-Byte, Arbnos, Hannes Röst:
Done as EGID (P9665). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 22:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
