Wikidata:Property proposal/Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID
Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | new identifer used by the Library and Archives Canada |
|---|---|
| Represents | Library and Archives Canada (Q913250) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Template parameter | none |
| Domain | persons, corporate bodies, geographical names and titles |
| Allowed values | ncf\d{8} |
| Example 1 | Douglas Adams (Q42) → ncf10168152 |
| Example 2 | Malta (Q233) → ncf10182257 |
| Example 3 | University of Toronto (Q180865) → ncf10150011 |
| Source | page at VIAF and see question What will happen with Canadiana Authorities in English and in French? |
| Number of IDs in source | 52894 in VIAF with a WD link |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://viaf.org/processed/CAOONL%7C$1 |
Motivation
[edit]As the notice on the VIAF page says: "Until 2018, LAC records in VIAF included those for both the English and French language of cataloguing environments. In 2018, all of the LAC authority records were withdrawn in preparation for re-loading only those with 040 $b fre. The LAC file in VIAF now contains authority records for persons, corporate bodies, geographical names and titles when the language of cataloguing is French."
Basically Canadiana Authorities ID (former scheme) (P1670) 
is outdated and was dropped from VIAF, when importing the new identifier a bit later. The older value is still preserved in field 016 of the MARC record, though. Another reason for this proposal is so people can add the new identifier properly without misusing the old one. Sotho Tal Ker (talk) 20:47, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
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Notified participants of WikiProject Authority control
- Comment Datatype should probably be external identifier. --Nw520 (talk) 15:56, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
- Now it is :) --Sotho Tal Ker (talk) 20:28, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Support: Although I do wish that authority record ID were permanent ... --WiseWoman (talk) 20:10, 27 April 2020 (UTC)- Support As used by VIAF. --Epìdosis 09:29, 2 May 2020 (UTC) P.S. I didn't receive the ping, so again.
- Support Iwan.Aucamp (talk) 09:36, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Notified participants of WikiProject Authority control
- Support - PKM (talk) 19:11, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Sotho Tal Ker, Nw520, WiseWoman, Epìdosis, Iwan.Aucamp, PKM:
Done --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 02:30, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
@Sotho Tal Ker, Nw520, WiseWoman, Epìdosis, Iwan.Aucamp, PKM: I changed the record count to: 648,092, point in time 2 March 2020, reference URL http://viaf.org/viaf/data/viaf-20200302-links.txt.gz, stated in VIAF. --Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 08:11, 29 May 2020 (UTC)