Wikidata:Property proposal/Catalogue of Life ID 2
Catalogue of Life ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
| Description | identifier of a taxon or synonym in the Catalogue of Life |
|---|---|
| Represents | Catalogue of Life (Q38840) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | item; taxon (Q16521), plant (Q756) |
| Allowed values | [23456789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ]{1,6} |
| Example 1 | Delphinus delphis (Q207114) → 34JWM |
| Example 2 | animal (Q729) → N |
| Example 3 | Lespedeza violacea (Q15529295) → 6Q3GP |
| Example 4 | Abies alba (Q146992) → 8K9Y |
| Example 5 | plant (Q756) → P |
| Example 6 | bird (Q5113) → V2 |
| Example 7 | Oenanthe (Q28915) 679P |
| Example 8 | cougar (Q35255) → 4QHKG |
| Source | https://www.catalogueoflife.org/ |
| Planned use | adding to items edited or created, as well as using in external knowledge graphs |
| Number of IDs in source | 4463574, including roughly 2 million accepted species |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Formatter URL | https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/$1 |
| See also | Catalogue of Life in Taiwan ID (old version) (P3088) |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | Catalogue of Life (Q38840) |
Motivation[edit]
The Catalogue of Life (Q38840) is the world's largest list of the species. Maintained by hundreds of taxonomists, it is also an authoritative source in the biodiversity domain. There already exists property Catalogue of Life in Taiwan ID (old version) (P3088) that is however restricted to the species of Taiwan. Biologists need to be able to cross-link taxa to their Catalogue of Life ID, similar to what they do with other large projects with properties such as GBIF taxon ID (P846), ZooBank ID for name or act (P1746), WoRMS-ID for taxa (P850), IPNI plant ID (P961), IUCN taxon ID (P627), etc. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Franck Michel (talk • contribs) at 09:51, January 13, 2022 (UTC).
Discussion[edit]
- Previous proposal: Wikidata:Property proposal/Catalogue of Life ID.--GZWDer (talk) 13:52, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
- To be honest I actually didn't not remeber I had made this request before. Also, I was not aware of the discussion Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Taxonomy/Archive/2016/03#Property_for_Catalogue_of_Life_(Q38840)?. I'm wondering if this is still so messy today or things got better. If someone can update us that would be nice. Franck Michel (talk) 14:16, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- COL has changed entirely since those discussion. We have completely rewritten the infrastructure and have put stable IDs in place since December 2021.
- There has been a small change this March 2022 described at https://www.catalogueoflife.org/2022/03/23/name-ids to make the COL identifiers purely name oriented. Before they were changed on purpose if the status or the accepted name changed, see https://www.catalogueoflife.org/2021/04/14/stable-ids Doering73 (talk) 14:58, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
- To be honest I actually didn't not remeber I had made this request before. Also, I was not aware of the discussion Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Taxonomy/Archive/2016/03#Property_for_Catalogue_of_Life_(Q38840)?. I'm wondering if this is still so messy today or things got better. If someone can update us that would be nice. Franck Michel (talk) 14:16, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Support --UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 20:18, 17 January 2022 (UTC)- Support --Doering73 (talk) 17:00, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Succu, Brya: because you gave your opinion in the previous proposal, what do you think about this new one? Pamputt (talk) 14:01, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
- Given that CoL is updated yearly, it is not really possible to give an in depth assessment. However, CoL has a very long track record of promoting gruesome errors: I don't see that anybody can use this as a reliable source. However, I am also noting that Wikidata-users are actively creating errors in the taxonomy area by themselves, on their own initiative. So maybe adding this identifier won't make matters all that much worse. - Brya (talk) 14:40, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
