Wikidata:Property proposal/General Material Designation

General Material Designation edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

Done: General Material Designation (P6608) (Talk and documentation)

Description	a Canadian archival term indicating the broad class of material to which the unit being described belongs to.
Represents	general material designation (Q17090663)
Data type	Item
Allowed values	architectural drawing, cartographic material, graphic material, moving images, multiple media, object, philatelic record, sound recording, technical drawing, textual record
Example 1	Q61992110 --> graphic material
Example 2	Q61992104 --> multiple media
Example 3	Q61992106 --> textual records
Source	http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/RAD/RAD_Chapter01_July2008.pdf
Planned use	To be added to the wikidata items representing Canadian archival fonds, the ~425 private fonds from McGill University Archives to start

Motivation edit

To help add to archival metadata, I'm proposing the addition of General Material Designation as a property. The term is specifically used in Canadian archival practice as laid out in the Rules for Archival Description (RAD) (see Source link, Chapter 1.1C). The General Material Designation (GMD) is standardized vocabulary referring to the medium of archival records as a descriptive element and is part of the archival descriptions for fonds or collections. Each fonds can have one or more General Material Designations depending on what is within the fonds. For example, Abraham Jacob Livinson Fonds (Q61992110) has a GMD of textual record and graphic material.

The General Material Designation property would include the following values (items) that replicate the standardized vocabulary: architectural drawing, cartographic material, graphic material, moving images, multiple media, object, philatelic record, sound recording, technical drawing, and textual record.

~~~~ RachelEBlack

Discussion edit

Support David (talk) 06:19, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Do you plan to add new items for the designation categories, or use existing wikidata items for this? ArthurPSmith (talk) 13:28, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The plan would be to add new items for the designation categories as General Material Designation has a standardized vocabulary. While there are Wikidata items, such as sound recording (Q5057302) or architectural drawing (Q184784) that exist already, they represent a process or the actual item, respectively, while GMD is referring to the type of medium which is represented within a fonds. A distinction can be made between the new items and the existing through the description and indicating a relationship between the item and the property (likely similar to how the relationship between level of description (Q59211454) and record group (Q59294700) is modeled). RachelEBlack (talk) 17:43, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Annadysert (talk) 16:09, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@RachelEBlack, ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Annadysert: Done Please create the needed items; you can add the examples on the property, or ping me if you need help with that, thanks! ArthurPSmith (talk) 20:49, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]