Wikidata:Property proposal/Museum Universe Data File identification number
Museum Universe Data File ID edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier for a museum, in the United States' 'Museum Universe Data File' (MUDF) |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | museums |
| Allowed values | 840\d{7} |
| Example 1 | Sam Davis House (Q48844756) → 8404700040 |
| Example 2 | Fort Ross Conservancy (Q30258019) → 8400602260 |
| Example 3 | Coos Art Museum (Q5168062) → 8404100570 |
| Source | https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/museum-universe-data-file |
| Number of IDs in source | 33,000+ |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
Motivation edit
The Museum Universe Data File is an authority file published by the United States w:Institute of Museum and Library Services, a US federal agency, which lists all known US museums, based on public records and administrative data. The data set contains a unique ID for every US museum, which should be added to their Wikidata items. Dominic (talk) 21:59, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Support. @Dominic: How are these numbers constructed - do they always begin with "8"? Do they always have 10 digits? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:13, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- Observationally, those both appear to be true for all IDs so far, but I am not certain if that is a rule that is being followed for future entries as well. I don't have any insider information about this dataset, unfortunately, just what is in the documentation file. Dominic (talk) 22:19, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- I've now looked at the data file and they all seem to begin "840", with another 7 digits to follow. I've written a regex accordingly; we can always tweak it, if it turns out to be too restrictive. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:41, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
- Observationally, those both appear to be true for all IDs so far, but I am not certain if that is a rule that is being followed for future entries as well. I don't have any insider information about this dataset, unfortunately, just what is in the documentation file. Dominic (talk) 22:19, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- Support Trivialist (talk) 23:46, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- Support It seems to be useful according to the source page David (talk) 06:52, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
- Support Cwf97 (talk) 17:19, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Dominic, Trivialist, Pigsonthewing, Cwf97: 
Done: Museum Universe Data File ID (P6006). − Pintoch (talk) 19:10, 26 October 2018 (UTC)