Wikidata:Property proposal/Room number

room number

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

   Done: room number (P7532) (Talk and documentation)

Description	number / identifier of a room.
Represents	room number (Q1394016)
Data type	String
Example 1	Salle des États (Q10292830) → 711
Example 2	Audimax (CAU Kiel) (Q61747632) → CAP 2
Example 3	Audimax (Q73212061) → BAU178A
See also	located on street (P669): 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 house number (P670): number in the street address. To be used as a qualifier of Property:P669 "located on street" conscription number (P4856): number identifying a building in one cadastral area/village/neighborhood floor number (P5423): floor number in a street address. To be used as a qualifier of Property:P6375 "located on street" or as a property of a place

Motivation

There does not appear to be any suitable property to represent the number of a room, as a property of a room (Q180516). In large institutions like universities and museums it is common for every room to be identified by a number, that is unique within the institution. I recommend using a string, because at universities "room numbers" often contain letters identifying the building or place. I would expect this property to be an instance of Wikidata property related to places (Q19829914), subclass of Wikidata property to indicate a location (Q18615777).

--Gittenburg (talk) 09:12, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support I like this as proposed including the string element (at my institution everything is "Building LetterNumber", and there are dozens of G15s...). I would suggest having "room name" and "room identifier" as aliases - there are probably cases where the rooms are officially identified only by names, and it would be good to handle these consistently rather than having to guess at using the label. Andrew Gray (talk) 10:53, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
  • I agree with having "room identifier" as an alias but I disagree about "room name" because it could lead to non-identifying names being accidentally claimed as identifiers. --Gittenburg (talk) 15:32, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment interesting to see that we finally get to that level of detail. --- Jura 16:43, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support David (talk) 11:56, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
  • Why "room number" over "room identifier" if the property is also supposed to house idenftifiers that aren't numbers? ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 08:26, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
    • house number (P670), conscription number (P4856) and floor number (P5423) are all labeled "number" despite having the data type "string". From my experience people tend to refer to room identifiers as "room numbers". I have never heard somebody say "room identifier". --Gittenburg (talk) 08:39, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Done @Gittenburg, Andrew Gray: please make good use of it. --- Jura 10:03, 9 November 2019 (UTC)