Dear WLM list, we are preparing the db for the list of monuments, and we'd like to know how you faced the issue of generating an unique identifier when you had to do that (because the official list didn't have it).
- is it useful (for some reason) to generate a "meaningful",
"well-constructed" identifier (which can be resolved by a particular algorythm?)
For Russia, it is an unsolved problem, since we have the federal database with unique IDs, but there are also local bases without IDs which in almost all the cases are more complete and contain the monuments which are not in the federal database (and the federal database is broken and for several regions does not work properly). The only solution I see it to introduce some "internal" IDs so that the bots can work properly. These IDs of course should be clearly marked as "internal". This is my personal opinion, I did not discuss it with the organizers (and for Russia, there are currently no organizing team anyway).
Cheers Yaroslav