Originally proposed atWikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | reference used by UK archives to disambiguate each other. Identifiers have also been minted to refer to some international repositories. |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | organisations |
| Allowed values | \d+ |
| Example | London Metropolitan Archives(Q6670589) →74 |
| Source | https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
| Formatter URL | http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=$1 |
| See also | P3029 |
These codes are used routinely by UK archives to refer to themselves and allow us to specify that a particular collection is in one place rather than another. With a country code added, they often form the basis of catalogue references - e.g. GB 73 xxxx is an item in the V&A Archive of Art and Design, where 73 is the repository's ARCHON number (see field athttp://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a/A13530504). GB813 begins objects in the archive of the Postal Museum (e.g.http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_2009_0113_3).
I hope we will soon be in a position to add more authority data here but this is a start.
Mr impossible (talk)16:17, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely useful - would hopefully let us build a fairly solid collection of items on archives, and as noted with the Postal Museum example would let third parties do a lookup on a record number and get structured data for the holding institute.Andrew Gray (talk)13:20, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply] Support.Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);Talk to Andy;Andy's edits15:32, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
DoneChristianKl (talk)16:40, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]