Wikidata:Property proposal/COL taxon ID

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COL taxon ID

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

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DescriptionCatalogue of Life identifier
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainproperty; Q16521
Allowed values[23456789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ]{1,6}
Example 1Abies alba (Q146992) → 8K9Y
Example 2plant (Q756) → P
Example 3bird (Q5113) → V2
Example 4cougar (Q35255) → 4QHKG
Sourcehttps://www.catalogueoflife.org/2022/03/23/name-ids
Planned useAnnotate all taxa in Wikidata that are also found in Catalogue of Life with the COL ID - preferably with the help of a Bot.
Number of IDs in source4463574
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/$1
See alsoP846

Motivation

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Catalogue of Life is the most comprehensive single taxonomy with over 2 million species and 4 million names. It is an often used reference for taxonomy that should be linked to WikiData. http://www.catalogueoflife.org  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Doering73 (talk • contribs) at 14:28, 29 March 2022‎ (UTC).[reply]

Discussion

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