Wikidata:Property proposal/DeCS ID
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DeCS ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
| Description | identifier in the Health Sciences Descriptors thesaurus |
|---|---|
| Represents | Health Sciences Descriptors (Q5690673) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | item |
| Allowed values | [1-9]\d* |
| Example 1 | anhedonia (Q545365) → 54515 |
| Example 2 | dutasteride (Q424760) → 55943 |
| Example 3 | abdomen (Q9597) → 5 |
| Example 4 | Gammacoronavirus (Q16977225) → 56930 |
| Source | https://decs.bvsalud.org/I/DeCS2020_Alfab.htm |
| Mix'n'match | 4099 and 4100, but they are incomplete. |
| Planned use | Addition of the identifier to Wikidata items. |
| Number of IDs in source | 34118 (as of 2020) |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Formatter URL | https://decs.bvsalud.org/en/ths/resource/?id=$1 |
| Distinct-values constraint | Yes |
| Wikidata project | WikiProject Medicine (Q4099686) |
Motivation[edit]
Notified participants of WikiProject Medicine
Health Sciences Descriptors (Q5690673) (DeCS) is an open multilingual thesaurus (in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English) created by BIREME (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information) (Q6496267) and originally developed from the Medical Subject Headings (Q199897) thesaurus by the United States National Library of Medicine. I believe this would be a nice addition to the authority control of the related Wikipedias. -sasha- (talk) 02:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Support. However, I'd suggest to use mapping relation type (P4390) qualifier for at least some chemistry-related entries (and maybe other too), as in the case of MeSH ID, there may be entries that are not 100% equivalent to WD entries. Examples can be easily found in DeCS too: Hydrocarbons are not an equivalent to our hydrocarbon (Q43648), because DeCS entry also cover derivatives of hydrocarbons (i.e. a lot of compounds that are in fact not hydrocarbons). Wostr (talk) 10:54, 14 January 2021 (UTC)- @-sasha-, Wostr:
Notified participants of WikiProject Medicine 
Done as DeCS ID (P9272). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 07:52, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
