Wikidata:Property proposal/Smithsonian Ark ID
Smithsonian Ark ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier for items at the Smithsonian Institution down to the digital asset level |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | objects, holdings, digital assets |
| Allowed values | string pattern (ark:/65665/[a-z0-9-]+, to be prepended to "http://n2t.net/") |
| Example 1 | Douglas DC-3 (Q190211) → nv9fbd81657-308f-4658-aa45-0b5f983062a4 |
| Example 2 | Mary Lincoln's Dress (Q105095679) → ng49ca746b4-458a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa |
| Example 3 | Aurora Borealis (Q4822496) → vk7045f8e74-3e7b-458d-8442-301c4e8e8382 |
| Planned use | For Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons (SDC), provides us a unique identifier down to the digital asset level. This will be crucial for more precise and verifiable SDC work. |
| Number of IDs in source | more than 3 million |
| Expected completeness | eventually largely complete, but always growing |
| Formatter URL | http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/$1 |
| See also | Smithsonian resource ID (P7851) (object level only) |
Motivation
[edit]The Smithsonian Open Access (Q106509825) has embarked on releasing more than 3 million digital files under a CC0 license (see portal site here). At the same time, it created a new Archival Resource Key (Q2860403) (Ark) ID for not only record-level assets but file-level assets (more described at their Global Unique identifiers page). This unique identifier allows for better integration with Wikidata at the item level, but also for Structured Data on Commons to the file level.
For reference, similar IDs have been crafted for Louvre Museum ARK ID (P9394) and SNAC ARK ID (P3430). Full disclosure: I currently serve as the Smithsonian Institution Wikimedian at Large and work on tools and processes for sharing between Wikimedia projects and the Smithsonian. -- Fuzheado (talk) 15:01, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Discussion
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Support --Adam Harangozó (talk) 08:42, 16 April 2021 (UTC)- @Fuzheado, Adam Harangozó:
Done as Smithsonian ARK ID (P9473)