Wikidata:Property proposal/EMLO location ID

EMLO location ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: Early Modern Letters Online location ID (P4672) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a location in the Early Modern Letters Online database maintained by the University of Oxford
Data type	External identifier
Domain	physical location (Q17334923)
Allowed values	[a-f0-9]{8}(\-[a-f0-9]{4}){3}\-[a-f0-9]{12}
Example	Berlin (Q64) → c224d808-aa0c-410f-8ccd-786b2a4b38f8
Source	http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/browse/locations
External links	Use 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 use	Mix'n'Match catalogue already exists: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/41 EMLO has Wikipedia and Geonames links for many of its locations, which could be used for further matches.
Formatter URL	http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/location/$1
See also	Early Modern Letters Online person ID (P1802)

Motivation

EMLO is an active, growing, open-access database of thousands of letters between European intellectuals. We already have the EMLO person IDs (see previous discussion in which Magnus called for this proposal). EMLO uses locations to organise letters by where they were written, where addressed to, and the places that letters mention. See for example Berlin. Working at the University of Oxford, I am now bulk-importing some EMLO data and it would be helpful to have this property. EMLO already make links to Wikipedia and this property could help the links be two-way.

Caveat: almost all of the automatic matches in Mix'n'Match are wrong, because a specific location (usually a specific street in London) is matched with somewhere much larger (usually London). So I do not recommend importing the Mix'n'Match matches once the property is created. (Attention User:Magnus Manske!) MartinPoulter (talk) 14:43, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 15:15, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:26, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Jneubert (talk) 16:16, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support David (talk) 08:53, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Sic19 (talk) 12:42, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 10:34, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@MartinPoulter, Magnus Manske, YULdigitalpreservation, Pigsonthewing: @Jneubert, ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Sic19, Vladimir Alexiev: Done ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:17, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]