Wikidata:Property proposal/VD 17 ID

‎VD 17 ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Done: VD 17 ID (P12415) (Talk and documentation)

Description	ID in the retrospective Union Catalogue of Books Printed in German Speaking Countries in the 17th Century (VD 17)
Represents	VD 17 (Q254237)
Data type	External identifier
Allowed values	[0-9]{1,5}:[0-9]{1,6}[A-Z]?
Example 1	Icaria (Q124333771) → 3:301276V
Example 2	Simplicius Simplicissimus (Q705839) → 1:663909V
Example 3	Von der Deutschen Poeterey (Q53588) → 3:315035W
Source	VD17 database
Number of IDs in source	307000
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=1.28/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=8079&TRM=$1

Motivation[edit]

The VD 17 (Q254237) is the Union Catalogue of Books Printed in German Speaking Countries in the 17th Century compiled by numerous public libraries in Germany. It is a highly authoritative resource to identify early modern printed edition. Awinkler3 (talk) 08:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]