Wikidata:Property proposal/UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID
UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | IFLA UNIMARC ID for a medium of performance for a musical work |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | instrumentation (Q617028) |
| Allowed values | [a-z]{1,4} |
| Example 1 | alphorn (Q685206) → bah |
| Example 2 | timpani (Q189737) → pti |
| Example 3 | bass trombone (Q13194854) → btbf |
| Example 4 | banjo (Q258896) → tbj |
| Example 5 | woodwind instrument (Q181247) → w |
| Example 6 | countertenor (Q223166) → vct |
| Example 7 | chamber orchestra (Q2470540) → och |
| Source | https://www.iflastandards.info/unimarc/terms/mop |
| Planned use | An international group of music librarians is looking to add these identifiers to Wikidata items |
| Number of IDs in source | 392 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | http://iflastandards.info/ns/unimarc/terms/mop/$1 |
Motivation
[edit]Wikidata currently has several properties specifically for medium of performance, including Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID , MIMO instrument ID, and MusicBrainz instrument ID. However, there is not currently a property for the IFLA UNIMARC Medium of Performance vocabulary. Instead, this vocabulary is conflated with other IFLA vocabularies, which are all included under the IFLA value vocabularies ID property. This property was created after several other property proposals for IFLA value vocabularies were rejected.
However, the UNIMARC Medium of Performance Vocabulary ID was never proposed nor rejected as a property in the past. This vocabulary is a controlled vocabulary of terms used to describe a musical work's medium of performance (the instruments and/or voices, devices and other performers needed to perform it). The vocabulary is multilingual, and is used by music librarians internationally. The vocabulary includes URIs, is optimized for linked data, and projects are in the works to update it with new terms as well as variant terms in new languages.
The international music library community would be excited by the inclusion of this property in Wikidata, since it is a major vocabulary used in libraries and cultural institutions around the globe. While technically these terms can be used with P9112, I think there is a great benefit to treating this vocabulary granularly, rather than throwing it into a generic category with other IFLA vocabularies. It would make it easier to construct specific SPARQL queries in Wikidata with this property. The presence of other properties dedicated to medium of performance merits the inclusion of this vocabulary as a specific property as well; creating this property would mirror the treatment of other library vocabularies used for the same thing. Cholden86 (talk)
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Discussion
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Support Moebeus (talk) 23:16, 8 November 2022 (UTC)- Support, but I suggest that you use the canonical (CURIE) URL, which doesn't include the hashtag. For example the CURIE for brass instruments is http://iflastandards.info/ns/unimarc/terms/mop/b so the identifier would be just b, not #b. http://iflastandards.info/ns/unimarc/terms/mop/b resolves to the web page that has the URL http://iflastandards.info/ns/unimarc/terms/mop/#b. Go with the CURIE, not the HTML web page. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 01:43, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! This has been fixed. Cholden86 (talk) 18:19, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
- I'm going to notify Wikiproject Libraries. (
Notified participants of WikiProject Libraries) and also the members of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group (@Smallison:, @Dan scott:, @Megs:, @Miguelmcorreia:, @Alexmar983:, @Epìdosis:, @Uncommon_fritillary:, @AmarilisMGC:, @Mlemusrojas:, @EriedgenArc:, @Jneubert:, @Stellawisdom:, @AhavaCohen: ) Cholden86 (talk) 18:52, 10 November 2022 (UTC) - Support Susanna Giaccai
- Support Eric van Balkum, this would be a very useful vocabulary to provide music library and other users with a standardised, multilingual source and a solid base for searching music repertoire on the basis of its instrumentation. The controlled list is and will be managed by specialists in the field and supervised by an authoritative organisation.
- Support --AhavaCohen (talk) 06:05, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Support useful and unproblematic. Asaf Bartov (talk) 20:53, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Cholden86, Moebeus, giaccai, Eric de Muziekbibliothecaris, AhavaCohen, Ijon: Notified participants of WikiProject Libraries @Smallison, Dan scott, Megs, Miguelmcorreia, Alexmar983, Epìdosis:, @Uncommon_fritillary, AmarilisMGC, Mlemusrojas, EriedgenArc, Jneubert, Stellawisdom:
Done as UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID (P11214). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 00:05, 19 November 2022 (UTC) - Support Useful and well known in music library cataloguing.Smallison (talk) 03:00, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
- Support As a music librariant/cataloger, this is a difficult topic that I look forward to progressing. Lyon.Jeff