Wikidata:Property proposal/Surman ID

Surman ID edit

Done: Surman ID (P3392) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier of a record, in the Surman Index of British nonconformist ministers
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human
Allowed values	\d+
Example	Joseph Priestley (Q159636) -> 22329
Source	http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/
Formatter URL	http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/main.php?personid=$1
Robot and gadget jobs	A potential mix'n'match catalog, though with numerous sparse entries.

Motivation

The Surman Index site is hosted by Queen Mary University of London (Q195668), and covers 32K records of British nonconformist ministers. While the focus is on Congregational ministers, others are included, among them a coverage of older Presbyterians. The digitisation of the original index by Charles Surman has been funded by a Royal Academy grant, and further support by Dr Williams's Library (Q5304565) and others.[1] The material is useful for British and North American history, in particular, and for the background of missionaries. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:56, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Charles Matthews, Pigsonthewing: Done ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:53, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]