Wikidata:Property proposal/WIGOS identifier
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WIGOS station ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
| Description | identifier of a meteorological station, in the WIGOS database |
|---|---|
| Represents | WIGOS identifier (Q28686426) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | weather station (Q190107) |
| Allowed values | int\.wmo\.wigos-([0-9]|1[0-4])-(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[1-5][0-9]{4}|6[0-4][0-9]{3}|65[0-4][0-9]{2}|655[0-2][0-9]|6553[0-4])-){2}-[0-9A-Z]{1,16}(-[0-9A-Z]+)? (refer to Manual on the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (Q28686657) page 106 for further information) |
| Example | Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (Q1803017) → int.wmo.wigos-0-20000-0-74492 |
| Source | |
| Planned use | Insert weather station items into Wikidata to allow external climate databases to be queried for climate data, adding further information to a Wikidata query. This can be useful for automatically generating climate data for a city by finding the nearest weather station, then fetching external climate data for that closest weather station. |
| Robot and gadget jobs | Almost all weather stations from Legacy format station report (in use until 2018) can likely be imported automatically in bulk, as there are currently ~50 weather station items listed in Wikidata. |
- Motivation
The WIGOS identifier is used by the WMO and other meteorological organisations to uniquely identify weather stations around the world. By creating a new Wikidata item for each weather station around the world, it becomes possible to query Wikidata for the weather station(s) closest to a particular city, obtain the WIGOS identifier(s) and then query external climate information databases to obtain real time, near real time and/or historical climate data recorded by the particular station. Dhx1 (talk) 14:19, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
- Discussion
Support This sounds useful. The idea is to have an item for every weather station in the world? Do we have some of these in wikidata now? ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:00, 6 February 2017 (UTC)- Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:15, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
- Is there a reason not to name this property "WIGOS weather station ID"? ChristianKl (talk) 08:50, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support. This looks like a useful external id to me.YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 16:09, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Comment @ChristianKl: Changed to "WIGOS ID" as suggested. I overlooked your comment when previously marking as ready, sorry. Dhx1 (talk) 22:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Dhx1: Actually my suggestion was also to reference the domain in the name, is there a reason not to do so? ChristianKl (talk) 07:43, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
- I renamed the property to WIGOS station ID. If you are happy with that, set it to ready. ChristianKl (talk) 11:19, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
- Comment Thanks @ChristianKl:, I've marked this property proposal as ready. Dhx1 (talk) 14:06, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith, Dhx1, YULdigitalpreservation, Pigsonthewing:
Done Created as WIGOS station ID (P4136). ChristianKl (talk) 07:15, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
