Wikidata:Property proposal/Western Australian Biographical Index
Western Australian Biographical Index
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| Description | Card ID from the Western Australian Biographical Index, a set of handwritten index cards compiled in the 1970s. |
|---|---|
| Represents | Western Australian Biographical Index (Q130366635) |
| Data type | String |
| Domain | item, human (Q5) |
| Example 1 | Lionel Samson (Q16063634) → S/S0203 |
| Example 2 | James Anderton Hall (Q46167569) → H/H0513 |
| Example 3 | Lilian Helena Teesdale (Q78851972) → B/B6088 |
| Example 4 | Frederick Weld (Q328269) → UVWXYZ/UVXYZ2853 |
| Source | |
| Mix'n'match | 6490 |
| Number of IDs in source | 85403 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Implied notability | Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320) |
| Formatter URL | https://slwa.wa.gov.au/data/wabi/$1 |
| URL match pattern | ^https?:\/\/slwa\.wa\.gov\.au\/data\/wabi\/([A-Z0-9/]+) |
Motivation
[edit]The Western Australian Biographical Index (Q130366635) (WABI) was compiled in the 1970s by Rica Erickson (Q4357043) and many other people, to build a database of people relating to Western Australia in the 19th Century (up to 1914). It has been transcribed and is published by the State Library of Western Australia (Q7603408) under a CC-BY license. The Dictionary of Western Australians (Q5273978) and Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians (Q115122719) both come from the work of the Index (they're not open licensed).
Although lots of the entries will not be matched to Wikidata items, a great number will and the cards often contain useful information about the people.
This property will also be useful in references, where knowledge is extracted from the cards (but no item created for the primary person).
There are 421 duplicate IDs in this dataset. These can be resolved to their correct contents by looking at the scans (which are addressed by filename and, at least as far as I can see so far, are unique; this may mean that some records are not backed by scans, or that some scans do not have records to match).
—Sam Wilson 11:58, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
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Notified participants of WikiProject Australia You may be interested in this property proposal. —Sam Wilson 23:35, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Support - excellent opportunity to link a unique resource of people in Australia JarrahTree (talk) 12:19, 26 September 2024 (UTC)- Support (as proposer) Sam Wilson 12:20, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support – will enrich our knowledge of early settlers in Western Australia Oronsay (talk) 23:45, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- The formatter URL will be hard to make. Until they change their website structure, we should consider including the prefix in the identifier, e.g. "S/S0203" . Then the formatter URL can just be https://slwa.wa.gov.au/data/wabi/$1.jpg. --99of9 (talk) 01:13, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- @99of9: That's a good point, I'll change it. I'm also wondering about adding the whole thing to Wikisource, given that it's open licensed, so there could be a stable URL there too. Sam Wilson 02:47, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support --99of9 (talk) 04:34, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- @99of9: That's a good point, I'll change it. I'm also wondering about adding the whole thing to Wikisource, given that it's open licensed, so there could be a stable URL there too. Sam Wilson 02:47, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support --ScottDavis (talk) 12:36, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support -- MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:41, 27 September 2024 (UTC)