Wikipedia:WikiProject Unique Identifiers

A project for Wikipedians using Unique Identifiers (UIDs) for article subjects; particularly where a more specific UID project does not already exist.

Aims

 * 1) To improve articles about UID schemes
 * 2) To standardise and encourage the use of UIDs in articles
 * 3) To formulate and deploy a policy for redirecting URLs for UIDs to articles (see UID interface to Wikipedia)
 * 4) To collaborate with Wikidata and DBpedia regarding the use of UIDs
 * 5) To develop MediaWiki feature requests relating to UIDs, if needed
 * 6) To liaise with external UID providers and consumers

To-do

 * Work out how to achieve UID access to wikipedia articles
 * Improve project templates (logo; category/ies; switch for non-article pages)
 * invite relevant editors to join
 * A pointer to this project has been posted on:
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Libraries
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject NIH
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pharmacology
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Databases
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry ‎
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Genetics ‎
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computational Biology
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology
 * document existing work
 * expand this list!

User templates
Place this template on your user page:
 * User WP UID

It will appear like this:

Article talk page templates
Add this to the talk pages of articles about organisations that use QRpedia:


 * WikiProject UID

It will appear like this:

Article templates

 * Authority control

Categories

 * Identifiers
 * WikiProject Unique Identifiers
 * External link templates to linked data sites with reciprocal links

Examples
Some of the UIDs in use on Wikipedia; this is not comprehensive list; we probably need a (hidden?) category, separate to the above, for those we actually use.


 * Bibliography
 * ISBN - see ISBN
 * ISSN - see ISSN
 * (LC and ?) BL shelf marks (e,g Cotton Mss)
 * Digital object identifier (doi)
 * Library of Congress Classification
 * Dewey Decimal Classification
 * Biochemistry
 * GenBank
 * UniProt
 * Gene Ontology
 * Biography
 * Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)
 * Personennamendatei (PND)
 * SELIBR by the National Library of Sweden
 * Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
 * International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
 * Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
 * Business
 * Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei (GKD)
 * Chemistry & Pharmacology
 * CAS registry number
 * ChemSpider ID
 * ChEMBL
 * ChEBI
 * PubChem
 * InChI and InChIKey
 * SMILES
 * UNII
 * KEGG
 * RTECS
 * DrugBank
 * MedlinePlus
 * Medicine
 * IDC
 * Diseases Database
 * MedlinePlus (as above)
 * eMedicine
 * MeSH
 * Music
 * MusicBrainz - see Category:MusicBrainz templates
 * Transportation
 * ATOC Station Identifiers (aka CRS codes) (UK Railway Stations)
 * NaPTAN (UK transport locations)
 * ICAO codes - airports, airlines, aircraft.
 * IATA codes
 * Linguistics
 * ISO 639
 * Ethnologue
 * IETF language tag (BCP 47)
 * Unicode
 * ISO 15924
 * Geography
 * ISO 3166
 * FIPS
 * IANA
 * Currency
 * ISO 4217
 * Miscellaneous subjects
 * Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) (Commercial terms?)
 * LCSH ?? (Commercial terms?)

Participants

 * Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) - founder
 * Victuallers (talk)
 * Tagishsimon (talk)
 * John Harvey (talk)
 * Shimgray (talk)
 * Rich Farmbrough Oh yes....
 * Dsp13 (talk)
 * Nicholas Humfrey (@njh) - Interest in adding Unique Identifiers to dbpedia lite
 * FeanorStar7
 * John Vandenberg
 * Jane (talk) 14:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Revent Interested in getting Bio articles about authors to have both VIAF and LCCN #'s.
 * Alistairirvine (talk) 15:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:15, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Related

 * Metadata
 * Authority control
 * Biographical metadata