Wikidata:Property proposal/EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code

EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

Not done

Description	part of a classification system for ecological areas with similar habitat in the United States
Represents	Level IV ecoregion (Q52111409)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	Q52111409
Allowed values	{[0-9]+[a-z]}
Example 1	Tawas Lake Plain (Q52087723) → 50ah
Example 2	Southern Coast and Islands (Q53625714) → 76d
Example 3	Lansing Loamy Plain (Q53772624) → 56g
Source	https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/ecoregions
Planned use	Instances of Q52111409 for the 967 Level 4 Ecoregions in the contiguous U.S. be created as items. See my code here for building the WikiData item information and links for all EPA Ecoregions.
Number of IDs in source	967
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
See also	EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code

Motivation

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)[reply]

Discussion

Comment Your description needs to be much shorter - move the bulk of what you have written there to the motivation section. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:33, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for the comment. I shortened the description to bare essentials in each of the 5 identifier property proposals. I wasn't sure that the description actually went into the property item and was trying to be thorough. Please let me know if that makes better sense now. Skybristol (talk) 22:13, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks for fixing up the proposal, this looks good to me. However, I am wondering how you plan to connect these Ecoregion codes to actual locations - is that part of what you want to do here? Will that require another property? ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:05, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the question. The source data I referenced behind this are geospatial data with mapped boundaries for each ecoregion unit. The process I put together builds a representative point location and adds that to the Wikidata items as a geocoordinate statement, allowing for a quick, basic orientation to the general area. The statements also include intersections with political boundaries in the applicable North American countries. I was looking into options for publicly hosting the actual boundary data and would be happy for some advice on that. I looked into loading them to Wikimedia Commons as there is some documentation about loading spatial data there, but I haven't yet figured out how to actually get geojson files loaded. Another option would be to include a reference to a geospatial web service from the EPA source as the formatter URL configuration of the identifier properties. The services will respond to queries based on the ecoregion codes, so that would be a route to link each logical entity to its corresponding full geospatial location/boundary. There are other examples in Wikidata such as political jurisdictions that do link to a corresponding spatial representation in Wikimedia Commons, so that seems like the way to go, but any input on direction would be welcome. Skybristol (talk) 14:44, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose for the same reasons I provided at Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_US_Level_3_Code and also due to the proposed format resulting in a merger of the EPA level 3 (number) and EPA level 4 (alphabetical letter suffix) identifiers into the one proposal. My preference is two properties, one the level 3 numerical prefix and the other being the level 4 alphabetical letter suffix. If there is a need to keep the merged identifiers such as "58af" in the single Wikidata property, I would then suggest that only one property is needed to cover both EPA level 3 and EPA level 4. --Dhx1 (talk) 16:51, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]