Wikidata:Property proposal/hmmlid

hmmlid

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID (P9943) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for the HMML Authority File (HAF) database
Represents	HMML Authority File
Data type	External identifier
Domain	individual - Q795052, human - Q5, narrative entity - Q21070598, group of humans - Q16334295, organization - Q43229, family - Q8436, geographic location - Q2221906, work - Q386724, intellectual work - Q15621286, creative work - Q17537576
Allowed values	^(person|family|place|work|organization)\/[1-9]\d{0,12}$
Example 1	Ismail Sabri Paşa (Q10973271) → person/904621933334
Example 2	Sahnun (Q708848) → person/341536426892
Example 3	Mounsef (Q22949237) → place/718637402071
Example 4	Chaldean Syrian Church (Q3083648) → organization/178867604132
Source	https://haf.vhmml.org/
Planned use	We are launching a new authority file and plan to add the identifiers for our authorities to Wikidata over time
Number of IDs in source	Thousands
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://haf.vhmml.org/$1
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) has received a partial matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to address the problem of access to endangered libraries and archives digitized by HMML as part of its global mission to preserve the world’s hand-written cultural heritage. The NEH Resources for Description of Manuscripts from Understudied Christian and Islamic Traditions project addresses two primary challenges that confront open access to endangered manuscripts from understudied traditions digitized by the HMML: the description of manuscripts by highly skilled professional curators, catalogers, and metadata librarians, and the creation of standardized or authorized names and titles, also called authority files, that serve as the international library standard that unifies cataloging across different library systems. The HMML Authority File (HAF), will allow users to discover and share this important data from these understudied Middle Eastern, African, Asian, and Mediterranean collections with the world through advanced search and an open API. HMML is uniquely positioned to provide this data, having one of the world’s largest digital repositories of endangered libraries and archives. Coupled with our collaborative work with the Wikidata, Library of Congress, and Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), the HAF application will fill a much-needed knowledge gap by creating this data which can be used as linked data for international library systems. Libraries and digital humanities projects require reliable metadata to improve their access and render it more shareable within an increasingly interlinked digital space. Because of the scale of HMML’s collections and the focus on materials historically underrepresented in western scholarship, HMML is becoming de facto the “institution of record” for information about previously unrecorded authors and texts, as well as for those authors and texts that feature in existing scholarship. With the addition of the hmmlid in Wikidata, this information can further benefit the world and systems beyond just the HAF application and HMML.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hmmlsystems (talk • contribs) at 14:53, August 26, 2021‎ (UTC).

Discussion

 Support This project is imperative to supporting the RENOMMEE project at the Université Côte d'Azur, so we fully support our parent libraries pursuit of the id. Yes please add.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maltastudycenter (talk • contribs) at 19:39, October 4, 2021‎ (UTC).

@Hmmlsystems, Maltastudycenter:  Done Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID (P9943) Pamputt (talk) 20:16, 5 October 2021 (UTC)