Wikidata:Property proposal/BHL item ID

BHL item ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: BHL item ID (P11959) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for an item in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
Represents	Biodiversity Heritage Library (Q172266)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	volume (Q1238720), or version, edition or translation (Q3331189) or publication (Q732577) (with volume qualified)
Allowed values	\d+
Example 1	Taxonomic literature Vol 1. A-G (Q56684621)→103414
Example 2	Taxonomic literature Vol 2. H - Le (Q56684748)→103253
Example 3	The Birds of Australia, Vol. 4 of 7 (Q90262966)→191229
Example 4	The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7 (Q90259167)→187062
Example 5	The naturalist's miscellany, or Coloured figures of natural objects (Q51508688)→276641 qualifier: volume (P478) 10
Example 6	The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (Q56689790)→18387 qualifier: volume (P478) 1
Example 7	The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (Q56689790)→18365 qualifier: volume (P478) 2
Example 8	The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Q51381320)→187864
Source	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/titles/#/titles
Number of IDs in source	297992
Formatter URL	http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/$1
See also	BHL page ID (P687), BHL creator ID (P4081), BHL bibliography ID (P4327), BHL part ID (P6535), BHL name ID (P8724)
Wikidata project	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Projects

Motivation

Biodiversity Heritage Library (Q172266) currently assigns DOIs to titles and articles (and where possible we pass these DOIs and their accompanying data to Wikidata. We've recently been asked to provide DOIs at the volume/item level, e.g. for this publications: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/48631. We thus need BHL item IDs in Wikidata.

Item is the primary bibliographic unit used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Item ID is the identifier used by BHL to uniquely identify each digitised (or born-digital) item uploaded onto BHL, e.g. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/276641 = volume 10 of The Naturalist's Miscellany.

Wikidata has properties for the other key identifiers within the BHL ecosystem: BHL page ID (P687), BHL bibliography ID (P4327), BHL part ID (P6535), BHL creator ID (P4081) and BHL name ID (P8724), but not BHL item ID.

There are many examples of BHL items is Wikidata, e.g. Taxonomic literature Vol 1. A-G (Q56684621), but they have the wrong BHL identifier attached to them (here the BHL page ID). Gould's Birds of Australia has different QIDs for the individual volumes: see The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7 (Q90259167). These all (incorrectly) link to BHL via the BHL bibliography ID (which links to the title page for the entire series) instead of our proposed BHL item ID, which would take you to the individual volumes. --User:Nicolekearney

Discussion

•  Support --99of9 (talk) 04:52, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
• Thierry Caro 99of9 Canley Mattinbgn Samwilson JarrahTree ScottDavis Oronsay Pru.mitchell Bidgee Harryboyles Dhx1 SJK Nickw25 Danadl MargaretRDonald Nicolekearney Calistemon Eothan Evolution and evolvability REMerrick Atroche The-Pope Bjenks hfordsa SHB2000 AmandaSLawrence Rtbk Chris.sherlock3
  Notified participants of WikiProject Australia --99of9 (talk) 05:49, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support The only reason I'd think this isn't a good idea is if there were going to be more and more of these! But it seems like this is the odd one out and the only one missing, so it makes sense to add it. Sam Wilson 05:51, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

  This is the only BHL ID missing from the list. There are not going to be any more (that I can foresee). Wikidata has properties for BHL Page ID and BHL Bibliography ID (the ID used for titles of books/journals). This is the BHL ID used for volumes/items. Nicolekearney (talk) 02:38, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

•  Support --MargaretRDonald
•  Support --Oronsay (talk) 07:15, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Canley (talk) 08:38, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support It sounds like this is needed to correct inaccuracies. --ScottDavis (talk) 01:24, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support - JarrahTree (talk) 08:40, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support - Chris.sherlock3 (talk) 15:50, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Pru.mitchell (talk) 07:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

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• @Nicolekearney, 99of9, Samwilson, MargaretRDonald, Oronsay, Canley: @ScottDavis, JarrahTree, Chris.sherlock3, Pru.mitchell:  Done: BHL item ID (P11959). Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 00:02, 15 August 2023 (UTC)