Wikidata:Property proposal/NHS Organisation Data Service ID

NHS Organisation Data Service ID

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

RepresentsOrganisation Data Service (Q105117218)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainorganization (Q43229)
Allowed values[A-Z0-9]+
Example 1The Royal London Hospital (Q7374421)R1H12
Example 2Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (Q12064751)RRK15
Example 3NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group (Q21685369)10R
Example 4London Borough of Islington (Q205817)706
Sourcehttps://digital.nhs.uk/services/organisation-data-service
Planned useInitial assignment of some identifiers - I may also have a look at an import.
Number of IDs in source~Tens of thousands
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://directory.spineservices.nhs.uk/ORD/2-0-0/organisations/$1

Motivation

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The NHS Organisation Data Service maintains a canonical list of identifiers for component organisations of the UK's National Health Service (of which there are many). These identifiers can be used to fetch data from the NHS's public APIs. Russss (talk) 12:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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