Wikidata:Property proposal/GBIF occurence ID

GBIF occurence ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Withdrawn

Description	identifier of a specific occurence in
Represents	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Q1531570)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	the property should be limited by constraint to the items that are instance of (P31) type specimen (Q51255340)
Example 1	NHMUK 1991.4 (Q98413346) → 1055321777
Example 2	USNM 138151 (Q98413230) → 1321009624
Example 3	YPM IZ 003617.CR (Q65966126) → 1039267804
Source	https://www.gbif.org/
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].
Formatter URL	https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/$1

Motivation edit

A signifiant number of occurence of type specimens are available in GBIF, as showed in the examples above those occurences may contains a lot of useful various infos, and I guess that the links to those occurences are therefore useful too.

Another potential use is for the structured data of Wikimedia Commons. Exemple c:File:Hutchinsoniella macracantha (YPM IZ 003617.CR) 002.jpeg was uploaded from a dataset available in GBIF, and we can easily imagine the corresponding GBIF occurence being made available in the Structured Data for Commons Christian Ferrer (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Discussion edit

Support I've actually heard of GBIF! ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:35, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support GBIF is an important repository of biodiversity information DrThneed (talk) 02:52, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 15:25, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Question: At the moment Hutchinsoniella macracantha (Q8214344) has 157 occurence IDs. Should they all added to the species item? If yes: how to keep them in sync? If no: what is the restriction and how to control it? --Succu (talk) 15:35, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Succu: Good point, my proposal is ambigous. My goal is not to add the occurence IDs to taxa items but only to items that are instance of (P31) type specimen (Q51255340), and exceptions to constraints could be set if necessary in the future. Christian Ferrer (talk) 17:44, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn not that I think it is not (can not be) useful, but in fact Wikidata is not yet focused on type specimen items and I am lacking of time as I have a lot of other stuff to do. therefore it is likely that this property will be not very used for now. Maybe in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:09, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]