Wikidata:Property proposal/Index to Organism Names ID

Index to Organism Names ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

   Done: Index to Organism Names ID (P10420) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier of a taxon in the Index to Organism Names database
Represents	Index to Organism Names (Q85769261)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item; taxon (Q16521)
Allowed values	\d+
Example 1	Cryptodira (Q499621) → 8
Example 2	Southern Ground Hornbill (Q685074) → 167
Example 3	Obdurodon insignis (Q656718) → 7300
Example 4	Tingidae (Q1472961) → 40135
Example 5	Brevipalpus (Q4357524) → 116228
Example 6	Hapalogaster (Q4484800) → 2573650
Example 7	Abaeis boisduvaliana (Q110616291) → 5559498
Source	http://www.organismnames.com/query.htm
Planned use	will add to items edited or created
Number of IDs in source	5,212,326 (as of January 18, 2022; source: http://www.organismnames.com/query.htm)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=$1
See also	NCBI taxonomy ID (P685), Encyclopedia of Life ID (P830), GBIF taxon ID (P846), Taxonomicon ID (P7066), BHL name ID (P8724)
Applicable "stated in"-value	Index to Organism Names (Q85769261)

Suggested alias: ION ID

Motivation

According to the Index to Organism Names (Q85769261) website, "ION contains millions of animal names, both fossil and recent, at all taxonomic ranks, reported from the scientific literature. (Bacteria, plant and virus names will be added soon). These names are derived from premier Clarivate Analytics databases: Zoological Record®, BIOSIS Previews®, and Biological Abstracts®. All names are tied to at least one published article. Together, these resources cover every aspect of the life sciences - providing names from over 4 million scientific records, including approximately 15,000 international journals, patents, books, and conference proceedings. They provide a powerful foundation for the most complete collection of organism names available today. When you search for a name on ION, your results include: Basic nomenclatural and hierarchical information; Original description reference and related articles from Clarivate Analytics databases with links to citations via Web of Science; Related, evaluated Web resources." This would be a valuable property to have in Wikidata for taxon names. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 22:59, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support, an important property for biology.--Arbnos (talk) 01:14, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

  @Arbnos: Why? --Succu (talk) 20:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Oppose, a commercial site of doubtfull value: The plant family Cactaceae (Cactaceae (Q14560)) belongs to insect (Q1390). --Succu (talk) 20:21, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support, very useful. Metadataguy (talk) 21:16, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

  @Metadataguy: Why? --Succu (talk) 20:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

  As you can see from the 'Motivation' portion of the proposal, ION names are derived from existing databases. In the sprit of data re-use, this property gives another access point from which queries can be be constructed using existing terms that maybe maintain in local databases. Currently, I can query on the 'main subject' (See example: https://w.wiki/4mmV). Once this property is approved, I could switch the P921 for an ION identifier, to connect scholarly works directly to a term used in the ION database. The extensiveness and completeness warrants a compelling reason to create this property.​ Metadataguy (talk) 19:57, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Support This provides important identifiers for organisms, and this property's inclusion on Wikidata will help link identifiers for the same entities together on the semantic web. Many commercial data sites have identifiers included in Wikidata--this should either be a basis for exclusion, or not. For example, Share-VDE author ID is included. I agree with Metadataguy. --Crystal Clements, University of Washington Libraries (talk) 17:33, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
  • We are talking about Clarivate (Q27991358), a advertising "webofscience platform" In a narrower sense The Zoological Record (Q220183) (Zoological Record Index offers:) would be a more reliable identifier ("Bacteria, plant and virus names will be added soon", since 2005?). --Succu (talk)
•  Support ION is by far the largest database of animal and protozoan names (i.e., names covered by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Q13011), and is essentially the free to access online version of The Zoological Record (Q220183)). Like any database it has errors as @Succu: notes, but its scope is beyond anything else in zoology. I particularly like this proposal as it would be a way for me to makes use of BioNames (Q105126781) create publication links for taxon name (P225) because BioNames (Q105126781) uses ION identifiers for taxonomic names.--Rdmpage (talk) 17:50, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 12:58, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
• @UWashPrincipalCataloger, Arbnos, Succu, Metadataguy: @Clements.UWLib, Rdmpage, MasterRus21thCentury:  Done ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)