Wikidata:Property proposal/access status of contents

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access status of contents

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

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Descriptionwhether all content published by a publisher (journal, TV channel, etc.) is directly readable online
Representsacademic conference (Q2020153), convention series (Q15900647), news media (Q1193236), broadcaster (Q15265344)
Data typeentity-invalid datatype (not in Module:i18n/datatype)
Template parameter"openaccess" in en:template:Infobox Academic Conference and in en:template:Infobox Journal
Allowed valuessame values as online access status (P6954)
Example 1International Conference on Database Theory. Proceedings (Q25106323)free to read (Q24707952)
Example 2TheGuardian.com (Q5614018)free to read (Q24707952)
Example 3Nature (Q180445)paywall (Q910845)
Example 4Netflix (Q907311)paywall (Q910845)
Planned useadd information about scientific venues following existing lists like [1] or [2]
See alsoonline access status (P6954)

Motivation

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This is about adding a property to indicate which publishers make their work available online at no cost. The main motivation I see is to keep track of en:Open access scientific venues (journals and conferences) but the notion would make sense more broadly, e.g., for online newspapers (some require a subscription and some do not), online TV channels, etc.

We already have online access status (P6954) but this is explicitly intended as a qualifier to indicate whether the DOI for a *single entity* (e.g., a single article) is open-access or not. So I think this is complementary to the proposal: it's better to indicate the access status of individual articles with online access status (P6954) when they have a Wikidata entity, but for all the research articles, news articles, etc., that don't, then the availability status could be inferred from the status of the publisher.

There may be some corner cases in the definition, e.g., some scientific publishers distribute some works as open-access if the authors pay an extra charge; so I think the proposal should indicate the default status of articles (i.e., requiring no extra payment), possibly in a certain date range.

Another possibility is to use online access status (P6954) as a qualifier of ISSN (P236) but this would not work for media without an ISSN. --A3nm (talk) 15:50, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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Thanks @ArthurPSmith: @Jheald: @Swpb: for the feedback! It also sounds reasonable to me to allow online access status (P6954) as a main property, with the semantics that on an entity it describes the access status of that entity (or its "contents", e.g., the proceedings of a conference series). How would one go in suggesting this? Would it be on Property_talk:P6954? Or can I just edit online access status (P6954) and use it directly? --A3nm (talk) 21:23, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@ArthurPSmith: @Jheald: @Swpb: asking again, how can I proceed to help move this forward? Thanks! --A3nm (talk) 13:23, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@ArthurPSmith: @Jheald: @Swpb: how can this move forward? thanks! --A3nm (talk) 19:39, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Be bold and change the constraints on online access status (P6954). If anyone opposes, start a discussion on the property's talk page. Swpb (talk) 19:59, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I have done this, and am creating my example facts using this system. If we do it this way, then my proposed property should not be created. --A3nm (talk) 16:31, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yup, sounds good! --A3nm (talk) 19:21, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]