Wikidata:Property proposal/Bureau of Meteorology station number
Bureau of Meteorology station ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
| Description | identifier of an Australian meteorological station issued by the Bureau of Meteorology |
|---|---|
| Represents | Bureau of Meteorology station number (Q28691558) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | weather station (Q190107) |
| Allowed values | [0-9]{6} |
| Example | Flinders Island Airport (Q28692248) → 099005 |
| Source | List of all sites |
| Planned use | Insert weather station items into Wikidata to allow external climate databases to be queried for climate data, adding further information to a Wikidata query. This can be useful for automatically generating climate data for a city by finding the nearest weather station, then fetching external climate data for that closest weather station. |
| Formatter URL | https://www.bom.gov.au/clim_data/cdio/metadata/pdf/siteinfo/IDCJMD0040.$1.SiteInfo.pdf |
| Robot and gadget jobs | Almost all weather stations from List of all sites can likely be imported automatically in bulk, as there are currently ~50 weather station items listed in Wikidata. |
| See also | WIGOS identifier |
- Motivation
The BoM station number is used by the BoM to uniquely identify weather stations within Australia. By creating a new Wikidata item for each weather station within Australia, it becomes possible to query Wikidata for the weather station(s) closest to a particular city, obtain the BoM station number(s) and then query external BoM climate information databases to obtain real time, near real time and/or historical climate data recorded by the particular station. The BoM station number also allows external lookup of BoM station information documents which provide highly detailed information about data capture configuration, instruments installed, periods of record capture, etc for each Australian station. Dhx1 (talk) 14:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
- Discussion
Support ChristianKl (talk) 11:57, 8 February 2017 (UTC)- Support. I'm concerned at the formatter URL is a PDF. Might that causes issues elsehere? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:31, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Dhx1: Can you address the concerns, that this property points to a PDF? ChristianKl (talk) 15:53, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Comment @Pigsonthewing: We could remove the formatter URL from this property, but why? A formatter URL doesn't currently seem to guarantee much about the resource being pointed to. What are formatter URLs meant to point to? HTML only? If so, which version of HTTP and TLS are to be expected? Which version of HTML (or set of extensions), version of CSS, JavaScript, etc are required to load the resource? For HTTP, a browser would have to wait for a Content-Type header to be returned from a server before deciding how to render the content (HTML versus XHTML versus PDF versus other file formats). Dhx1 (talk) 14:11, 19 February 2017 (UTC)- Is there a reason this property is named "Bureau of Meteorology station number" and not "Bureau of Meteorology station ID"? ChristianKl (talk) 05:57, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
- Comment @ChristianKl: No reason, so I've changed it to "ID" instead of "name". Marked as ready as no blocking comments have been received since this proposal was made 2+ months ago. Dhx1 (talk) 12:54, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Dhx1, Pigsonthewing:
Done ChristianKl (talk) 12:58, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
