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Wikidata:Property proposal/UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID

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UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

DescriptionIFLA UNIMARC ID for a medium of performance for a musical work
Data typeExternal identifier
Domaininstrumentation (Q617028)
Allowed values[a-z]{1,4}
Example 1alphorn (Q685206) → bah
Example 2timpani (Q189737) → pti
Example 3bass trombone (Q13194854) → btbf
Example 4banjo (Q258896) → tbj
Example 5woodwind instrument (Q181247) → w
Example 6countertenor (Q223166) → vct
Example 7chamber orchestra (Q2470540) → och
Sourcehttps://www.iflastandards.info/unimarc/terms/mop
Planned useAn international group of music librarians is looking to add these identifiers to Wikidata items
Number of IDs in source392
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URLhttp://iflastandards.info/ns/unimarc/terms/mop/$1

Motivation edit

Wikidata currently has several properties specifically for medium of performance, including Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID , MIMO instrument ID, and MusicBrainz instrument ID. However, there is not currently a property for the IFLA UNIMARC Medium of Performance vocabulary. Instead, this vocabulary is conflated with other IFLA vocabularies, which are all included under the IFLA value vocabularies ID property. This property was created after several other property proposals for IFLA value vocabularies were rejected.

However, the UNIMARC Medium of Performance Vocabulary ID was never proposed nor rejected as a property in the past. This vocabulary is a controlled vocabulary of terms used to describe a musical work's medium of performance (the instruments and/or voices, devices and other performers needed to perform it). The vocabulary is multilingual, and is used by music librarians internationally. The vocabulary includes URIs, is optimized for linked data, and projects are in the works to update it with new terms as well as variant terms in new languages.

The international music library community would be excited by the inclusion of this property in Wikidata, since it is a major vocabulary used in libraries and cultural institutions around the globe. While technically these terms can be used with P9112, I think there is a great benefit to treating this vocabulary granularly, rather than throwing it into a generic category with other IFLA vocabularies. It would make it easier to construct specific SPARQL queries in Wikidata with this property. The presence of other properties dedicated to medium of performance merits the inclusion of this vocabulary as a specific property as well; creating this property would mirror the treatment of other library vocabularies used for the same thing. Cholden86 (talk)

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