Wikidata:Property proposal/ESTC Citation Number
ESTC citation number edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier in the English Short Title Catalogue |
|---|---|
| Represents | English Short Title Catalogue (Q1342864) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | editions of literary works |
| Allowed values | [A-Z]*\d+ |
| Example | |
| Source | http://estc.bl.uk/ |
| Planned use | Identification of texts in the University of Oxford Text Archive |
| Formatter URL | http://estc.bl.uk/$1 |
- Motivation
My colleagues at the Bodleian Library tell me that ESTC numbers are crucial in the field of book research, with thousands of research papers using them as identifiers for book editions (for books printed before 1801). At the moment, Wikidata has a small number of these identifiers. Each ESTC link is represented with a inventory number (P217) statement with two qualifiers; one for collection (P195) and one for URL (P2699). I suggest that this would be better served by a dedicated identifier property: as well as being more efficient, it would better represent the meaning of the identifier. Although the site is maintained by the British Library, ESTC is not a catalogue of books within one institution, but a union catalogue that identifies books across many library collections, just as VIAF ID (P214) does for authors. ESTC numbers are used by databases such at the University of Oxford Text Archive (OTA) and the Eighteenth Century Poetry Archive. ESTC numbers will play a part in planned linking of the OTA and Wikidata. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:29, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
- Discussion
Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:56, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support. Canonical resource. --Technolalia (talk) 10:07, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support. --Uomovariabile (talk) 15:55, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support. This looks like a very useful property for authority control. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 14:12, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
- @YULdigitalpreservation, MartinPoulter, Technolalia, Pigsonthewing:
Done ChristianKl (talk) 22:31, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
