Wikidata:Property proposal/Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID (P9400) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for an English term in the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Represents	Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus (Q106065339)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item
Allowed values	[A-Z][a-z\-\+]+
Example 1	coronavirus disease (Q18975243) → Coronavirus+diseases
Example 2	abortion (Q8452) → Abortion
Example 3	air conditioning (Q173725) → Air+conditioning
Example 4	astronaut (Q11631) → Astronauts
Example 5	encyclopedia (Q5292) → Encyclopaedias
Example 6	English as a second or foreign language (Q130192) → English+second+language
Example 7	national anthem (Q23691) → National+anthems
Example 8	public–private partnership (Q221096) → Public-private+partnerships
Example 9	pulp and paper industry (Q2283886) → Pulp+and+paper+industry
Source	https://canada.multites.net/cst/index.htm
Planned use	will add to items as encountered
Number of IDs in source	2,294 preferred terms in English (see https://canada.multites.net/cst/def.asp?lang=En&n=0073D232-1)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://canada.multites.net/cst/default.asp?op=DISPTERM&searchString=$1
See also	proposed property Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Th%C3%A9saurus_des_sujets_de_base_du_gouvernement_du_Canada_ID
Applicable "stated in"-value	Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus (Q106065339)

Motivation

The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology which represents all the fields treated in information resources of the Government of Canada. It contains 4,983 terms in English and 5,050 in French, including 2,294 preferred terms in English and 2,294 in French. All fields of knowledge are represented in the thesaurus, to varying degrees. The tool is primarily intended for content managers, librarians, indexers and metadata developers in federal departments and agencies who must select controlled subject terms to index Government of Canada Web resources. In the Treasury Board Standard on Metadata, the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is identified as the preferred source of controlled vocabulary for that purpose. The English and French versions of the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus were developed and are maintained simultaneously by Library and Archives Canada (Q913250). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 20:58, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]