Hi,
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Vicenç Riullop vriullop@hotmail.com wrote:
Another approach has been used in Germany that other fellows can explain better. I think they used different templates and campaigns for each state.
In Germany, we have hundreds of different lists and databases, since in some states every municipality is in charge of their cultural heritage monuments, which means they will create an individual list. Most of them don't have identifiers, and for many regions we don't even have lists at all.
So what we did is work with 16 campaigns, one for each state, where we asked the uploaders to enter the name of the municipality, but as you can imagine, this led to a lot of work that had to be done afterwards.
What you see in the database are either the states where we have lists and identifiers (right now there are just two, de-he and de-by, but most likely two or three more will follow soon) or in the case of Cologne and Bergheim the specific databases for two cities we did projects in. As you can imagine, if we'd continue this way for all the other cities we have template based lists for by now, this would be a real mess. So we're trying to find a solution here, before we add more of the smaller lists.
When you create an own ID, this is almost always a case of original research and I'm really not in favor of creating a "Wikipedia identifier" for objects, but maybe this is the only way to solve the problem?
Kilian