Wikidata:Property proposal/PCAD firm ID

Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID (P6550) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Identifier for a firm (company, partnership, sole proprietorship) in the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)
Represents	Pacific Coast Architecture Database (Q56396004)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	business (Q4830453), enterprise (Q6881511)
Allowed values	\d+
Example 1	McKim, Mead & White (Q1915267) → 487
Example 2	Greene and Greene (Q5603899) → 18
Example 3	Walker & Eisen (Q7962204) → 70
Source	http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/
Mix'n'match	1747
Planned use	as a citation source for architectural firms and related business in the western United States
Number of IDs in source	~ 6,000
Expected completeness	eventually
Formatter URL	http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/$1/
See also	Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID (P5745) Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID (P6486)

Motivation[edit]

This is the third set of data held in the PCAD database, after buildings and people. It would be very useful for expanding our (rather poor) coverage of architectural firms and related companies in the U.S.

Note - The domain "architectural firm" would be too strict, since it does not cover the many building contractors, property developers, interior design studios, and furniture makers in the database.

Note 2 - This dataset is in Mix'n'Match ~~, but the service is not up right now so I can't verify the catalogue number~~. - PKM (talk) 21:51, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]