Wikidata:Property proposal/UCLA Space Inventory LocID
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UCLA Space Inventory LocID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place
| Description | identifier for a University of California, Los Angeles building |
|---|---|
| Represents | UCLA Space Inventory (Q107529904) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | item; university building (Q19844914); geographic location (Q2221906) |
| Allowed values | \d+ |
| Example 1 | Royce Hall (Q2171194) → 204 |
| Example 2 | Powell Library (Q4405663) → 240 |
| Example 3 | Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center (Q105534933) → 349 |
| Example 4 | UCLA Morton Medical Building (Q105732732) → 251 |
| Example 5 | UCLA La Kretz Garden Pavilion (Q105695290) → 94524 |
| Source | http://spaceinventory.ucla.edu/ |
| Planned use | add to UCLA building items |
| Number of IDs in source | over 500 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | http://spaceinventory.ucla.edu/#/LocID/$1 |
| See also | Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID (P6486) |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | UCLA Space Inventory (Q107529904) |
| Wikidata project | WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/UCLA (Q100999455) |
Motivation
[edit]The UCLA Space Inventory is a comprehensive database with images of and information about UCLA's owned and leased buildings. The information includes date of construction, architects, building namesakes, location, cost, area, and number of floors, all of which can be added as statements to items for these buildings. Uzundzhovets (talk) 19:25, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Discussion
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Support An open source campus wayfinder system would be very helpful for "various other" universities. I see a world of uses for this kind of data. TylerRogers (talk) 8:30, 4 Aug 2021 (UTC)
--Raskolnikov776 (talk) 21:26, 4 August 2021 (UTC)This would be helpful for use as a co-locator for all UCLA buildings.
- Support --Ezhang20 2:28pm, 4 Aug 2021
- Support --Helianthus74 15:02, 4 Aug 2021 (UTC)
- Support -- useful to have, and would be a great link to the UCLA Space Inventory database. Parobis1 (talk) 22:29, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- Support --Gyangyanko 3:48pm, 4 August 2021 This would come in extremely handy for IDing UCLA buildings
Comment When I proposed an identifier for buildings on the very similar map of the University of Washington, the proposal was not approved, even with a lot of support. Although that proposal has not been withdrawn yet, I have used the property official map URL (P9601) in items for individual UW buildings and other structures. So for example for William H. Gates Hall (Q8010414) I added official map URL (P9601) with value https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/law. I think official map URL (P9601) could also be used for UCLA buildings with items in Wikidata too. UCLA Space Inventory is certainly an official map, and each UCLA building has a unique URL that could be recorded as an offical map URL. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 02:09, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
- UWashPrincipalCataloger Although it is in map form, UCLA Space Inventory is described here and here as a database. As indicated in the first source, UCLA Space Inventory is what powers the interactive UCLA Map intended for external users, which would be an official map and which would be akin to the University of Washington Campus Map. It appears that UW's Campus Map may be powered by a similar space inventory database, but the database is restricted. Given that UCLA Space Inventory is a publicly accessible database with comprehensive information about UCLA buildings on and off campus (including demolished buildings and buildings under construction) that databases such as PCAD, Emporis, and Archinform lack, I would like to include it prominently in UCLA building items as an identifier. Additionally, I think it would be an excellent idea to include the offical map URL statement in UCLA building items, but for that I would use URLs from the UCLA Map.Uzundzhovets (talk) 20:11, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry for my delayed response here! After reading @UWashPrincipalCataloger's response I'm thinking that "official map URL" probably does make more sense within this context. So I am flip-flopping here and considering not supporting this property so as to move these properties away from proprietary systems/. Thanks for the great discussion! TylerRogers (talk) 14:41, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
- UWashPrincipalCataloger Although it is in map form, UCLA Space Inventory is described here and here as a database. As indicated in the first source, UCLA Space Inventory is what powers the interactive UCLA Map intended for external users, which would be an official map and which would be akin to the University of Washington Campus Map. It appears that UW's Campus Map may be powered by a similar space inventory database, but the database is restricted. Given that UCLA Space Inventory is a publicly accessible database with comprehensive information about UCLA buildings on and off campus (including demolished buildings and buildings under construction) that databases such as PCAD, Emporis, and Archinform lack, I would like to include it prominently in UCLA building items as an identifier. Additionally, I think it would be an excellent idea to include the offical map URL statement in UCLA building items, but for that I would use URLs from the UCLA Map.Uzundzhovets (talk) 20:11, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
Support --Caroline R. Miller99 2:28pm, 4 Aug 2021
- Support --Adkmeta (talk) 17:59, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
- Support --imandag 11:44am 11 Aug 2021
- @Uzundzhovets, Raskolnikov776, TylerRogers, Ezhang20, Helianthus74, Parobis1: @Gyangyanko, Caroline R. Miller99, Adkmeta, imandag:
Done as UCLA Space Inventory LocID (P9794) UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 18:33, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
