Wikidata:Property proposal/EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code
EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
| Description | part of a classification system for ecological areas with similar habitat in the United States |
|---|---|
| Represents | Level III ecoregion (Q52111338) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | Q52111338 |
| Allowed values | {[0-9]+} |
| Example 1 | Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands (Q5330161) → 83 |
| Example 2 | Snake River Plain (Q7547081) → 12 |
| Example 3 | Western Allegheny Plateau (Q17148740) → 70 |
| Source | https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/ecoregions |
| Planned use | Instances of Q52111338 for the 85 Level 3 Ecoregions in the contiguous U.S. will contain identifiers aligned with both the North American and U.S. concepts. See my code here for building the WikiData item information and links for all EPA Ecoregions. |
| Number of IDs in source | 85 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| See also |
Motivation edit
User TimK_MSI started creating items for two of the classes of EPA ecoregions some time ago (User_talk:TimK_MSI). Without an identifier property, he incorporated an identifier into some of the items by including a series ordinal on the instance of property in cases like Q5330161. I am now finishing out the work to generate items and linkages for all EPA ecoregion classifications as a persistent, resolvable, online resource for work in my lab and by others who work with these data for various analytical purposes. I would like to put identifiers on each item, properly registered to official properties, such that we can execute queries from external data systems that already have the original EPA Ecoregion codes in use. Skybristol (talk) 14:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Comment The examples should follow the pattern of other property proposals - start with an existing Wikidata item that would have a statement using this property, then the value it would have. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:33, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I linked the examples to specific existing items. Skybristol (talk) 12:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Weak oppose @Skybristol: The subject item and domain should be different from the one used in Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_Level_3_Code. As there are 5 classification identifiers proposed for ecoregions, each one should have a unique subject item (for the unique identifier/code) and a separate unique domain item (for the ecoregion). The source website indicates at [1] that there are 105 ecoregions identified, 1-85 and 101-120 instead of the 85 specified in this proposal. Which is correct? With those things fixed I'm OK to support this proposal. --Dhx1 (talk) 16:24, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
- Comment As a further suggestion: the official website/source URI for this property should be changed to [2] and "US" removed from the title of the proposal. --Dhx1 (talk) 16:44, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Not done it seems to be stale for quite some time. If there is still interest, it's worth going through the five or so pages and formulate a new proposal with the input there. --- Jura 19:51, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
