Wikidata:Property proposal/DigitalNZ ID
DigitalNZ ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier on the Digitalnz.org website for videos, newspapers, maps, photographs, audio, artworks, and news reports that have been digitised in New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Represents | DigitalNZ (Q5275765) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | work (Q386724) |
| Allowed values | [1-9]\d* |
| Example 1 | Nelson Regatta 1843 (Q61646891) → 37896844 |
| Example 2 | A Good Place to Be: Auckland Museum People 1929–89 (Q64995662) → 36639991 |
| Example 3 | The maxillae in the Lepidoptera (Q62942144) → 1036631 |
| Source | https://digitalnz.org/ |
| External links | Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt]. |
| Planned use | I'm planning to manually edit by adding the external identifier where appropriate. However DigitalNZ has an API so others may wish to bulk edit via bot. |
| Number of IDs in source | 30,000,000 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://digitalnz.org/records/$1 |
Motivation[edit]
DigitalNZ.org is a website that acts as an interface to videos, newspapers, maps, photographs, audio, artworks, and news reports that have been digitised in New Zealand. This id will be used to link with online resources available through that site. DigitalNZ also have an API that can assist with this linking. Ambrosia10 (talk) 22:45, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
For those not familiar with DigitalNZ: DigitalNZ is New Zealand's national aggregator of digital content, a bit like Europeana, but NZ-only. The content is large-scale government funded digitisation efforts and small-scale photo collections of local flora and fauna, and everything in-between. There's an API, but it's largely been overshadowed by larger systems in other countries (particularly Trove and Europeana) and so not that well used. It's also used with POND in schools. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:04, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
URL pattern In the examples given above, the example URLs don't match the URLs generated by the Formatter URL. https://digitalnz.org/records/37896844/nelson-regatta-1843 vs https://digitalnz.org/records/37896844 Does this matter? I'm also not sure whether the URL pattern should be https://digitalnz.org/records/$1/ rather than https://digitalnz.org/records/$1 Not sure that it matters, either way. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:39, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for those comments. It appeared that the long title suffix of the URLs (for example https://digitalnz.org/records/37896844/nelson-regatta-1843) was unnecessary as the shorter URLs (again for example https://digitalnz.org/records/37896844) resolve to the same page. I believed that as it didn't appear to matter, the shorter URL was more appropriate. I would be happy to edit if there is a consensus that the longer URLs are more stable or are required for other practical reasons. Ambrosia10 (talk) 09:07, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Note that the metadata for the resource at https://digitalnz.org/records/37896844/nelson-regatta-1843 specifies https://digitalnz.org/records/37896844 as canonical.Ratso56 (talk) 03:44, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Support Looks important. Good proposal. --99of9 (talk) 00:19, 3 July 2019 (UTC)- Support This would be very useful. --DrThneed (talk) 03:40, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support Really good idea. DigitalNZ staff have seen this proposal and are supportive as well. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 03:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support David (talk) 06:53, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support My comments above are to get it done right; I fully support it getting it done. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:39, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support Jheald (talk) 14:59, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support Support as external identifier; this preserves flexibility to alter the url formatter to (say) object/37896844 in future. Ratso56 (talk) 03:44, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support, using the shorter form. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:21, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
- On further examination, the long form is not only redundant, but any string (such as https://digitalnz.org/records/36639991/Andy-Mabbett-is-king ) works equally. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:25, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support --Canley (talk) 03:36, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
- Support Richard Nevell (talk) 11:31, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
- I have marked this as ready --DannyS712 (talk) 13:50, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Done @Ambrosia10, Ratso56, DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds, ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Stuartyeates: @Jheald, Ratso56, Pigsonthewing, Canley, Richard Nevell, DannyS712: created as DigitalNZ ID (P7000). Enjoy! --99of9 (talk) 01:52, 12 July 2019 (UTC) --99of9 (talk) 01:53, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
