Wikidata:Property proposal/Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier

Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionidentifier for a type or class of archaeological object, in the United Kingdom Portable Antiquities Scheme database
Data typeExternal identifier
Domaintypes of objects
Allowed values[a-zA-Z]+(\+[a-zA-Z]+)*
Example 1amphora (Q178401)AMPHORA
Example 2boundary marker (Q921099)BOUNDARY+MARKER
Example 3communion cup (Q12004683)Communion+Cup
Example 4subsistence agriculture (Q2787508) (?) → AGRICULTURE+AND+SUBSISTENCE
Sourcehttps://finds.org.uk/datalabs/terminology/objects
External linksUse 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].
Planned usematch all values to existing or new items
Number of IDs in source2128
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://finds.org.uk/datalabs/terminology/object/term/$1
Robot and gadget jobsMix'n'match
Distinct-values constraintyes

Motivation edit

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (Q3398729) is a British Museum led initiative which catalogues and photographs small archaeological finds in the United Kingdom. So far they have recorded over a million objects, ranging from pins to gold hoards. Commons has over 600,000 images from the collection, and many categories relating to the topics represented by this ID.

Note: The IDs appear to case-insensitive (see https://finds.org.uk/datalabs/terminology/object/term/CoMMunion+Cup ); it is not yet clear which form is canonical. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:45, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

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