Wikidata:Property proposal/original description

original description edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

   Not done
Descriptionthe original description or caption of an item in a catalog or other authority
Representsdescription (Q1200750)
Data typeMonolingual text
Domainas qualifier of inventory number (P217) or catalog code (P528)
Example 1Girl with a Pearl Earring (Q185372): catalog code (P528) → 44
  • catalog (P972)Johannes Vermeer catalog raisonné, 1908 (Q26235177), qualified by:
  • original description → "A half-length of a young girl without the hands. The figure is in profile to the left ; the face is turned to the spectator. The eyes are large ; the lips are slightly parted. The girl wears on her head a blue and white turban, the ends of which fall down her shoulders; she has a yellowish-green dress, and large pear-shaped pearls in her ears. The picture has been partly restored, since it was, when discovered, in very bad condition. It is quite in the style of the Arenberg picture (42), and was probably painted after it."
Example 2MISSING
Example 3MISSING
Planned usefilling in catalog details for items from museum and other collection catalogs

Motivation edit

Suggested by @User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ), original proposal here Wikidata:Project_chat#How_would_we_store_the_description_of_a_museum_object_where_we_do_not_have_a_media_image

To be used to fill in catalog details of items in third-party catalogs.

Note that not all catalogs will have public-domain captions that may be copied. Inductiveload (talk) 13:10, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit