Wikidata:Property proposal/Price One Penny Library ID

Price One Penny Library ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

Done: Price One Penny library ID (P9623) (Talk and documentation)

Description	ID for the libraries listed in Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860 as holding copies of the works in the database
Represents	Price One Penny (Q106923678)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	research library (Q1438040), public library (Q28564), national library (Q22806)
Allowed values	[a-Z]
Example 1	Bodleian Library (Q82133) → Bodley
Example 2	Auckland Central City Library (Q55121575) → Auckland
Example 3	Bibliothèque nationale de France (Q193563) → BNF
Source	http://priceonepenny.info/
Planned use	adding these external identifiers to existing elements to indicate that they hold copies of penny bloods, which are rare
Number of IDs in source	338
Formatter URL	http://www.priceonepenny.info/database/show_library.php?abbreviation=$1
See also	Wikidata:Property proposal/Price One Penny Author ID, Wikidata:Property proposal/Price One Penny Publisher ID, Wikidata:Property proposal/Price One Penny Work ID, Wikidata:Property proposal/Price One Penny Periodical ID

Motivation[edit]

This database is a valuable source of information on popular literature not just in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, but also in France and in the United States since French romans-feuilletons were translated in penny weekly numbers in London while American fiction was reprinted. As with most popular literature, copies are rare. To obtain accurate bibliographic information, I consulted library catalogues to list all extent copies. This identifier could allow libraries to realize that they hold rare materials of which they were previously unaware.

There are also external identifiers for authors, publishers, works, and periodicals. Separate property proposals have been made for these other identifiers since the formatter URL is different. Marianika (talk) 16:09, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]