Wikidata:Property proposal/Sveriges Dödbok

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The Swedish Deathbook[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

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Descriptionis a CD created by Swedish Genealogy society in the project "Name for the Dead" that contains today about 11 million dead Swedish people who have died after 1860. This property will just contain the unique identifier of a record. As this source is used a lot it is a good source to identify the uniqueness of a person Sveriges dödbok (Q10686079)
RepresentsSveriges dödbok (Q10686079)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5)
Allowed values
Example
  • Olof Palme (Q53713) → 19270130-0499 Palme, Sven Olof Joachim
  • Planned useOn Swedish people in Wikidata
    Number of IDs in source+9000 (same amounts of Swedish people died after 1860 in Wikipedia)
    Expected completeness??

    Motivation

    In Sweden this database is used a lot and is a good secondary source to confirm birth and death dates. I can see usage

    • Quality assure what we have in Wikipedia
    • Add a good source ==> better trust what we state in Wikidata and in the articles
    • Find death dates for people who has no Swedish death dates when matching
    • Used in the future for matching external datasources that also use "The Swedish Deathbook"

    Task T200029 Salgo60 (talk) 11:24, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    (moved from proposal template: No Formatter URL) - not online used for identify a person with another dataset using it ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:22, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Discussion

    Having a WD property it will be cleaner design and also available as a property on the person object - Salgo60 (talk) 14:09, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I have the data set if anyone needs a search in it, or we rule it is public domain. It appears that most of the data comes from collected genealogies and extant tombstones. I am not sure why it is called a death book, a portion of the entries only have birth information. I don't see a record number, just an index by name. When I ordered it it was listed as complete up to 2016, but that appears to be the year of the last update. It does not seem to include people that died in 2016 or many that died in the recent decades. It is mostly historic death records. --RAN (talk) 19:54, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]