Wikidata:Property proposal/Index herbariorum code

Index Herbariorum code

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

Done: Index Herbariorum code (P5858) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Code in Index Herbriorum for plant collections
Data type	String
Allowed values	[A-Z]+
Example 1	Herbarium of the Chilean National Museum of Natural History (Q56556081) → SGO
Example 2	Cambridge University Herbarium (Q56486967) → CGE
Example 3	Hungarian Natural History Museum herbarium (Q56486965) → BP
Source	http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/
Number of IDs in source	just above 3000, but a certain proportion are historical (destroyed, merged...)
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)/is complete, but new values may exist in the future (Q47169297)

Motivation

While adding basic informations to items created from some repositories in Wikispecies, I've found myself heavily frustrated by the restrictions of short name (P1813), most notably its language requirements, as these standard abbreviations are language agnostic (indeed they are used even in nonlatin languages, e.g.). Furthermore, they frequently do not correspond to the abbreviations used elsewhere (e.g. Field Museum of Natural History (Q1122595), usually abbreviated FMNH, is just F) or even to the name of the institutions in question (as can be seen for SGO and BP above, taken not from the institution names, but the cities where they are located).

One could conceive of a broader property that would be inclusive of other specialties, but while lists have been compiled (notably for ichtyology and herpetology), they remain relatively informal and unstandardized, so I'm sticking to a more restricted property for the time being. Circeus (talk) 21:45, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]