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The present page contains overview tables of properties that are commonly used in connection with Wikidata items relating to heritage institutions. It further contains references to relevant vocabularies and ontologies as well as to mappings to infobox templates of various Wikipedia language versions. The typology of heritage institutions is covered in a separate section.

Specific data modelling issues are tackled on a separate page: Data Modelling Issues.

List of Properties

Properties of Organizations

General

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
instance of	P31	Item	instance of: that class of which this subject is a particular example and member; different from P279 (subclass of); for example: K2 is an instance of mountain; volcano is a subclass of mountain (and an instance of volcanic landform)	Swiss National Library <instance of> national library	-
part of	P361	Item	part: object of which the subject is a part (if this subject is already part of object A which is a part of object B, then please only make the subject part of object A), inverse property of "has part" (P527, see also "has parts of the class" (P2670))	Swiss Literary Archives <part of> Swiss National Library	has part(s)
parent organization	P749	Item	parent company: parent organization of an organization, opposite of subsidiaries (P355)	Swiss National Library <parent organization> Federal Department of Home Affairs	has subsidiary
has part(s)	P527	Item	has part, consist of and meronymy: part of this subject; inverse property of "part of" (P361). See also "has parts of the class" (P2670).	Museum Aargau <has part(s)> Legionary Trail Vindonissa	part of
official name	P1448	Monolingual text	official name: official name of the subject in its official language(s)	Germany <official name> Bundesrepublik Deutschland	-
legal form	P1454	Item	legal form: legal form of an entity	Haribo <legal form> GmbH & Co. KG	-
director / manager	P1037	Item	leader of organization: person who manages any kind of group	Louvre Museum <director / manager> Jean-Luc Martinez	-
chairperson	P488	Item	chairperson, leader and president: presiding member of an organization, group or body	Rijksmuseum <chairperson> Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	-
image	P18	Commons media file	illustration and image: image of relevant illustration of the subject; if available, also use more specific properties (sample: coat of arms image, locator map, flag image, signature image, logo image, collage image)	Swiss National Library <image> Swiss National Library building.jpg	-
Commons category	P373	String	Commons category: name of the Wikimedia Commons category containing files related to this item (without the prefix "Category:")	Swiss National Library <Commons category> Swiss_National_Library	-

Note:

instance of (P31): Use a type as specific as possible from the typology of heritage institutions. Not all libraries are "heritage institutions" in the sense proper, as they may not have a heritage collection of their own. The same may go for some other institutions being listed on museum inventories and the like (e.g. exhibition centres). In order to declare specifically that an institution has curatorial care over a collection, use instance of (P31) memory institution (Q1497649). Check the mapping for the Swiss GLAM Inventory for an example on how the information in the source file was mapped to various types of heritage institutions contained in Wikidata.

Open issues:

director / manager (P1037) vs. chairperson (P488) – which one should be used by default?
To what extent should the typology of heritage institutions be used to characterize various types of institutions? Alternatively, it has been suggested to use main subject (P921) instead.^[1] It should however be noted that the typologies presently used are mutli-dimensional and do not exclusively focus on the subject/theme of an institution.

Location

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
country	P17	Item	historical country, state and sovereign state: sovereign state that this item is in (not to be used for human beings)	Swiss National Library <country> Switzerland	-
located in the administrative territorial entity	P131	Item	administrative territorial entity: the item is located on the territory of the following administrative entity. Use P276 for specifying locations that are non-administrative places and for items about events. Use P1382 if the item falls only partially into the administrative entity.	Swiss National Library <located in the administrative territorial entity> Bern	-
location	P276	Item	physical location: location of the object, structure or event. In the case of an administrative entity as containing item use P131. For statistical entities use P8138. In the case of a geographic entity use P706. Use P7153 for locations associated with the object	Louvre Museum <location> Louvre Palace	contains
street address	P6375	Monolingual text	address and street address: full street address where subject is located. Include building number, city/locality, post code, but not country; use also P669 if the street has its own separate item	Ashmolean Museum <street address> Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH	-
located on street	P669	Item	street: street, road, or square, where the item is located. To add the number, use Property:P670 "house number" as qualifier. Use property P6375 "street address", if there is no item for the street	Louvre Museum <located on street> rue de Rivoli	-
postal code	P281	String	postal code: identifier assigned by postal authorities for the subject area or building	Louvre Museum <postal code> 75058	-
coordinate location	P625	Geographic coordinates	geographic coordinates: geocoordinates of the subject. For Earth, please note that only WGS84 coordinating system is supported at the moment	Swiss National Library <coordinate location> 46°56'29"N, 7°26'59"E	-

Notes:

Use coordinate location (P625) for simple cases where an institution has only one site or if coordinates are indicated only for the main office. For more complex cases, use location (P276) to point to a building or various buildings and use coordinate location (P625) on the items for the buildings instead. Example: Museum Aargau (Q27485205).
Use located on street (P669) only if the street is different from the one indicated in street address (P6375) or if there is a pre-existing item for the street.
The use of postal code (P281) is debatable. Postal addresses (as opposed to the location address) have not been properly modeled in Wikidata yet. Indicating a postal code where the postal address and the location address differ may lead to confusion.

Communications

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
phone number	P1329	String	telephone number: telephone number in standard format (RFC3966), without 'tel:' prefix	Louvre Museum <phone number> +33 1 40 20 53 17	-
official website	P856	URL	official website and home page: URL of the official page of an item (current or former). Usage: If a listed URL no longer points to the official website, do not remove it, but see the "Hijacked or dead websites" section of the Talk page	Louvre Museum <official website> http://www.louvre.fr/	-
X username	P2002	External identifier	X account and X username: username on X (formerly Twitter); do not include the '@' symbol	Louvre Museum <X username> MuseeLouvre	-
Instagram username	P2003	External identifier	Instagram account: item's username on Instagram	Louvre Museum <Instagram username> museelouvre	-
Facebook username	P2013	External identifier	Facebook page: identifier for an official (preferably) Facebook person, product or organization page (everything that follows URL part 'https://www.facebook.com/')	Louvre Museum <Facebook username> museedulouvre	-
YouTube channel ID	P2397	External identifier	YouTube channel ID: ID of the YouTube channel of a person or organisation (not to be confused with the name of the channel) The ID can also be used for music.youtube.com IDs	Louvre Museum <YouTube channel ID> UCafm6w_rPndqAtokQy04Jdw	-
logo image	P154	Commons media file	logo: graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and products	National Gallery of Canada <logo image> National_Gallery_of_Canada_Logo.svg	-
GitHub username	P2037	External identifier	username of this project, person or organization on GitHub	British Museum <GitHub username> BritishMuseum	-
Mastodon address	P4033	External identifier	address on the Mastodon decentralized social network (the form is 'user@server.domain' without a leading '@')	SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts <Mastodon address> SAPA@info.performing-arts.ch	-

Significant Events in the Life of an Institution

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
inception	P571	Point in time	date of establishment, founding and date of the first award: time when an entity begins to exist; for date of official opening use P1619	Swiss National Library <inception> 1895	-
dissolved, abolished or demolished date	P576	Point in time	date of dissolution, abolition or demolition: point in time at which the subject (organisation, building) ceased to exist; see "date of official closure" (P3999) for closing a facility, "service retirement" (P730) for retiring equipment, "discontinued date" (P2669) for stopping a product	Pavillon Le Corbusier <dissolved, abolished or demolished date> May 2016	-
significant event	P793	Item	key event: significant or notable events associated with the subject	Rijksmuseum <significant event> construction	-

Note:

Use inception (P571) and dissolved, abolished or demolished date (P576) to indicate the opening and the dissolution of an institution respectively. If you want to represent more complex information, use significant event (P793) that allows for the distinction between the construction and the opening, the modeling of temporary closure and re-opening, etc. See Rijksmuseum (Q190804) for examples.

Properties Specific to Heritage Institutions

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
visitors per year	P1174	Quantity	number of visitors per year: number of people visiting a location or an event each year	Louvre Museum <visitors per year> 9,330,000±5000	-
Commons Institution page	P1612	String	Commons Institution page: name of the institutions's page on Wikimedia Commons (without the prefix "Institution")	Louvre Museum <Commons Institution page> Louvre	-
collection or exhibition size	P1436	Quantity	number of items in a collection or exhibition	Louvre Museum <collection or exhibition size> 460,000±5000	-

Identifiers (not country specific)

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
GLAM ID	P3066	External identifier	GLAM ID: unique identifier for heritage institutions as they have been used in the context of the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey	Swiss National Library <GLAM ID> CH-000221	-
VIAF ID	P214	External identifier	VIAF ID: identifier for the Virtual International Authority File database [format: up to 22 digits]	Swiss Federal Archives <VIAF ID> 134892105	-
GND ID	P227	External identifier	GND ID: identifier from an international authority file of names, subjects, and organizations (please don't use type n = name, disambiguation) - Deutsche Nationalbibliothek	Swiss Federal Archives <GND ID> 2027556-0	-
ISIL	P791	External identifier	identifier for a library or related organization	Library of Congress <ISIL> US-DLC	-

Country-specific Properties

Switzerland

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
PCP reference number	P381	External identifier	class A Swiss cultural property of national significance and class B Swiss cultural property of regional significance: identifier for cultural properties in Switzerland	Swiss Federal Archives <PCP reference number> 8771	-
heritage designation	P1435	Item	historic preservation and heritage designation: heritage designation of a cultural or natural site	Swiss Federal Archives <heritage designation> class A Swiss cultural property of national significance	-

Note:

In Switzerland, the same type of "heritage status" is used for historical monuments and for heritage collections.

Usage statistics

Properties used for museums

SELECT ?property ?propertyLabel ?count ?avg WITH {
  SELECT ?property (COUNT(DISTINCT ?item) AS ?count) (COUNT(DISTINCT ?statement)/COUNT(DISTINCT ?item) AS ?avg) WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q33506;
          ?p ?statement.
    ?property a wikibase:Property;
              wikibase:claim ?p.
  }
  GROUP BY ?property
  ORDER BY DESC(?count)
} AS %results WHERE {
  INCLUDE %results.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,en-US,de". }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?count)

Try it!

Properties used for libraries

SELECT ?property ?propertyLabel ?count ?avg WITH {
  SELECT ?property (COUNT(DISTINCT ?item) AS ?count) (COUNT(DISTINCT ?statement)/COUNT(DISTINCT ?item) AS ?avg) WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q7075;
          ?p ?statement.
    ?property a wikibase:Property;
              wikibase:claim ?p.
  }
  GROUP BY ?property
  ORDER BY DESC(?count)
} AS %results WHERE {
  INCLUDE %results.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,en-US,de". }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?count)

Try it!

Properties used for archives

SELECT ?property ?propertyLabel ?count ?avg WITH {
  SELECT ?property (COUNT(DISTINCT ?item) AS ?count) (COUNT(DISTINCT ?statement)/COUNT(DISTINCT ?item) AS ?avg) WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q166118;
          ?p ?statement.
    ?property a wikibase:Property;
              wikibase:claim ?p.
  }
  GROUP BY ?property
  ORDER BY DESC(?count)
} AS %results WHERE {
  INCLUDE %results.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,en-US,de". }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?count)

Try it!

Properties of Buildings

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
instance of	P31	Item	instance of: that class of which this subject is a particular example and member; different from P279 (subclass of); for example: K2 is an instance of mountain; volcano is a subclass of mountain (and an instance of volcanic landform)	pavillon Gérard-Morisset <instance of> museum building	-
occupant	P466	Item	person or organization occupying property	Kunstmuseum Basel Hauptbau <occupant> Kunstmuseum Basel	-
architect	P84	Item	architect and architectural firm: person or architectural firm responsible for designing this building	pavillon Gérard-Morisset <architect> Wilfrid Lacroix	-
architectural style	P149	Item	architectural style: architectural style of a structure	pavillon Gérard-Morisset <architectural style> Neoclassical architecture	-
country	P17	Item	historical country, state and sovereign state: sovereign state that this item is in (not to be used for human beings)	Museum Tinguely <country> Switzerland	-
located in the administrative territorial entity	P131	Item	administrative territorial entity: the item is located on the territory of the following administrative entity. Use P276 for specifying locations that are non-administrative places and for items about events. Use P1382 if the item falls only partially into the administrative entity.	Museum Tinguely <located in the administrative territorial entity> Basel	-
street address	P6375	Monolingual text	address and street address: full street address where subject is located. Include building number, city/locality, post code, but not country; use also P669 if the street has its own separate item	pavillon Gérard-Morisset <street address> Français : 1, avenue Wolfe-Montcalm, Québec (Québec) G1R 5H3	-
located on street	P669	Item	street: street, road, or square, where the item is located. To add the number, use Property:P670 "house number" as qualifier. Use property P6375 "street address", if there is no item for the street	Louvre Palace <located on street> rue de Rivoli	-
postal code	P281	String	postal code: identifier assigned by postal authorities for the subject area or building	Olympic Museum Lausanne <postal code> 1006	-
coordinate location	P625	Geographic coordinates	geographic coordinates: geocoordinates of the subject. For Earth, please note that only WGS84 coordinating system is supported at the moment	Olympic Museum Lausanne <coordinate location> 46°30'31"N, 6°38'2"E	-

Notes:

occupant (P466) enables you to link the buildung to the organization.
Use different from (P1889) to differenciate the bulding from the organization, especially if the items have the same name. Example: Museum Tinguely (Q63058423) refers to the building while Museum Tinguely (Q180904) refers to the memory institution.

Vocabularies and Reference Ontologies

Institution Types

Refer to the "Typology" section for an overview of institution types. The GND, the Library of Congress Authorities, RAMEAU, and probably further vocabularies maintained by other national libraries or similar institutions contain thesauri for various types of heritage institutions. None of the vocabularies reviewed so far seems to have the ambition to provide a comprehensive typology of heritage institutions. On the contrary, they seem to have grown organically, they often lack proper definitions, they are partly country-specific, and the concepts defined in the different vocabularies are not necessarily congruent. They contain however cross-references, which facilitate a mapping among the different vocabularies.

Municipalities and other administrative territorial entities

Municipalities and country sub-divisions should have their own items on Wikidata. This is already the case for many countries, but probably not for all of them. Check out Wikidata:WikiProject Country subdivision and Category:Geographical WikiProjects for information whether a given country has already been covered. If not, ingesting data on all municipalities and other administrative territorial entities should be considered before ingesting data about heritage institutions of a given country.

Mappings to Infobox Templates

The tables below contain overviews of infobox templates related to heritage institutions in the various language versions of Wikipedia. The table is far from being complete; feel free to add information about further infobox templates. Where templates presently already include data from Wikidata, this is indicated by a . Eventually, most data fields used in the templates should also be documented in the "List of Properties" section of this page (at the exception of those relating to buildings); thus the templates can be used as a guide as to which further properties should be included in the inventory of heritage institutions.

Note: There is a mismatch between the ontological approach taken for some of the infoboxes and the one taken in the context of this WikiProject. In fact, some Wikipedia versions, such as the English Wikipedia, originally conceived the infobox templates for museums and libraries as templates for particular types of buildings. In the context of Wikidata it seems reasonable to keep the two classes (buildings and organizations) apart.

See also: Template:Institution – we should also keep an eye on the developments at the interface between Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, as heritage institutions play an important role as holding institutions of the content at Wikimedia Commons.

To Do List

The following tasks still need to be done (please chime in!):

Split the tables below according to the classes concerned (organizations vs. buildings).
Complement the tables by adding information about more language versions.
Add a "definition" column; make sure that the definitions given for the various language versions in the same row match the common definition; if not, split the row in two or more rows with matching definitions.
Add information about which data fields are required in which languages.
Add Wikidata items for the data fields commonly used in templates.
In cooperation with the various Wikipedia communities: Modify the code of the templates to have them fetch more data directly from Wikidata; document the templates accordingly.
In cooperation with the various Wikipedia communities: Improve the infoboxes on Wikipedia in the light of best practices in other countries; work towards harmonization of the infobox templates across language versions.
In cooperation with the various Wikipedia communities: Promote the systematic use of the infoboxes on Wikipedia.

Museums

See Template:Infobox museum (Q6232685) for the links to the various language versions of the infobox template for museums.

Wikidata	en	de	es	fr	it	ru	pt
	name	Name	nombre	nom	Nome	название	nome
						sort
			nombres
official name (P1448)	native_name		nombre local	nom local	Nome originale	оригинал	nome_nativo
	native_name_lang
logo image (P154)	logo			logo	Logo		logo
							logo_tamanho
				logo taille
	logo_upright
	logo_alt
	logo_caption
image (P18)	image	Bild	imagen	image	Immagine	файл	imagem
			tamañoimagen	taille image		размер	imagem_tamanho
					Larghezza
	image_upright
	alt
	caption	Bildbeschreibung	pie_imagen	légende	Didascalia	подпись	imagem_legenda
	map_type						mapa
	map_relief
	map_size						mapa_tamanho
	map_caption
							mapa_dinâmico
							mapa_dinâmico_legenda
							mapa_dinâmico_zoom
							mapa_dinâmico_altura
							mapa_dinâmico_largura
	coordinates
							localização
coordinate location (P625)		Breitengrad		latitude	Latitudine	lat_dir \| lat_deg \| lat_min \| lat_sec =	latd= \|latm= \|lats= \|latNS
coordinate location (P625)		Längengrad		longitude	Longitudine	\| lon_dir \| lon_deg \| lon_min \| lon_sec	longd= \|longm= \|longs= \|longEW
						CoordScale
							coord_sufixo
							coord_título
				référence
	former_name
inception (P571)	established		creación		Data di fondazione	основан	fundação
date of official opening (P1619)		Eröffnung	inauguración	ouverture	Data di apertura
			ampliación
dissolved, abolished or demolished date (P576)	dissolved		disolución	fermeture	Data di chiusura		encerramento
	location (various formats, e.g. Town, Province, Country)	Ort (Ort, Land)				местонахождение (e.g. country, city)
country (P17)			país	pays	Stato		país
				subdivision 1 type
				subdivision
						region
		ISO-Region
			división
			subdivisión
			municipio
			ciudad	ville	Località		cidade
			dirección	adresse	Indirizzo
			codigo postal
main subject (P921)	type	Art		type	Typologia		tipo
			tipo (privado o público)
			clase
	accreditation
	key_holdings
	collections		colecciones	collections	Collezioni
collection or exhibition size (P1436)	collection_size		obras	œuvres
			género	genre collections
			época	époque collections	Periodo storico
				provenance collections
			superficie	superficie	Superficie espositiva		área_m2
visitors per year (P1174)	visitors	Besucheranzahl	visitantes	visiteurs	Visitatori	посетители	visitantes
							visitantes_ref
					Anno visitatori
			precio
founded by (P112)	founder				Fondatori	основатель
owned by (P127)			proprietario		Proprietà		proprietário
		Betreiber	administrador o administradora		Gestione
director / manager (P1037)	director	Leitung	director o directora	dirigeant	Direttore	директор	diretor
	president		presidente o presidenta				presidente
	ceo
	chairperson
	curator		conservador o conservadora	conservateur			curador
			edificio	monument
			estilo
			construcción
			reforma
			protección	protection (protection appliquée au bâtiment abritant les collections)
			catalogación
			declaración
architect (P84)	architect	Architekt	arquitecto	architecte
			artista
	historian
	owner
	publictransit
			metro
			bus
			horarios
			otros_datos
	car_park
	parking
	network
official website (P856)	website	Website	sitio_web	site	Sito	ссылка	website
						Commons
	embedded
ISIL (P791)		ISIL-ID
				géolocalisation

Notes:

The Spanish template also contains 4 user-specified fields that have not been represented in the overview table.
The Spanish template also comprises geolocalisation and map information that has not been included in the overview table.

Libraries

See Template:Infobox library (Q5636579) for the links to the various language versions of the infobox template for libraries.

Wikidata	en	fr	it	de	es	pt
label	name	nom	Nome	Offizieller Name	nombre	biblioteca_nome
short name (P1813)	name_en			Kurzname	traducción nombre	nome_pt
native label (P1705)			Nome originale	Name in Amts- oder Originalsprache
logo image (P154)	logo	logo			logo	biblioteca_logo
	logo_size	logo taille			logo_tamaño
	logo_alt				logo_pie
image (P18)	image	image	Immagine	Bild	\|imagen	imagem
	image_size		Larghezza		imagen_tamaño
	alt
	caption	légende	Didascalia		pie	legenda
country (P17)	country	pays	Stato	Staat	país	país
			Regione
		ville	Città
instance of (P31)	type		Tipo	ist ein(e)	tipo	tipo
	scope			Ist Teil von	área	escopo
			Specialistica
inception (P571)	established	date fondation	Apertura	Gründungs-/Erstellungsdatum	fundación	estabelecida
				Kulturerbestatus
dissolved, abolished or demolished date (P576)	dissolved	date fermeture	Chiusura
	ref_legal_mandate					ref_mandato_legal
P969 (P969)	location		Indirizzo	Adresse	ubicación	localização
located on street (P669)				Straße
located in the administrative territorial entity (P131)				liegt in der Verwaltungseinheit
coordinate location (P625)	coordinates	longitude et latitude	Latitudine e Longitudine	geographische Koordinaten	coordenadas	coordenadas
				Postleitzahl
part of (P361)	branch_of					filial_de
has part(s) (P527)				besteht aus
member of (P463)				Mitglied von
	num_branches					num_filiais
		protection
	items_collected				criterios_acervo	itens_coletados
collection or exhibition size (P1436)	collection_size	livres	Numero opere	Bestand	tamaño_acervo	tamanho_acervo
		superficie
		collections			colecciones
	criteria					critério
	legal_deposit				depósito_legal	depósito_legal
	req_to_access				requisitos_acceso	req_de_acesso
	annual_circulation					circulação_anual
	pop_served				préstamos	pop_servida
	members				miembros	membros
	budget				presupuesto	orçamento
director / manager (P1037)	director			Leitung	director	diretor
					arquitecto
					empleados
		conservateur
		gestionnaire			propietario/entidad
	num_employees					num_empregados
architectural style (P149)			Stile
architect (P84)			Architetto
			Costruzione
official website (P856)	website	site web	Sito	offizielle Website	sitio_web	website
described at URL (P973)				wird beschrieben in URL
	references					referências
	embed
	module
				Commons-Kategorie
ISIL (P791)		isil		ISIL-ID
				GitHub-Benutzername
				ISNI
				GND
				SUDOC-Normdaten
				LCAuth
Ringgold ID (P3500)				Ringgold-Identifikator

Other Types of Institutions

References

↑ Wikidata talk:WikiProject Museums#Museum as organization vs. Museum as location

[1] Wikidata talk:WikiProject Museums#Museum as organization vs. Museum as location

[1]

Wikidata:WikiProject Heritage institutions/Data structure

List of Properties

Properties of Organizations

General

Location

Communications

Significant Events in the Life of an Institution

Properties Specific to Heritage Institutions

Identifiers (not country specific)

Country-specific Properties

Switzerland

Usage statistics

Properties used for museums

Properties used for libraries

Properties used for archives

Properties of Buildings

Vocabularies and Reference Ontologies

Institution Types

Municipalities and other administrative territorial entities

Mappings to Infobox Templates

To Do List

Museums

Libraries

Archives

Other Types of Institutions

References