Hi Addis,
Op 8-6-2013 9:29, AddisWang schreef:
Hi Lodewijk
Yes we do find the lists on state and regional level. The reason we
have to make a list is that there are still many different
government-published list system. It may necessary to combine all of
them to make it easy to find and to numbered.
So considering the current situation, is that means we don't really
need to make a database for any using but only set some lists and
unique ID?
You're not the only country struggling with this. Take for example
the
Netherlands. We have three systems: Rijksmonumenten (country level),
Provinciale monumenten (province level) and Gemeentelijke Monumenten
(municipality level). Rijksmonumenten are quite easy because every
Rijksmonument gets assigned an unique id by the RCE (the government
subsidiary that decides about this) so we just used that.
We haven't really implemented the Provincial level yet, so I'll just
skip that. For the Gemeentelijke Monumenten we had a problem that many
countries face: Every municipality has it's own numbering scheme. To
solve this we used the principle of namespaces. In the Netherlands every
municipality gets assigned an unique id. We combine this municipality id
with the local id like <municipal id>/<local id>, for example
0392/59-0436 is
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voorgevel_van_winkelpand,_dubbele_e…
We use / as the separator because that makes it easy to do funky
template logical like showing the right municipality.
Going back to your original questions.
Op 6-6-2013 19:25, AddisWang schreef:
1. Unique ID: It seems many countries have their
official IDs excluding China, or at least is non-published. Since it might hard to
cooperate with government in this country, can we crete our own id for monuments in China?
And are there any requirements for the Unique ID?
See my previous explanation. See
what you can get, see if you can
organize it with namespaces to keep it unique. Creating your own unique
id is a last resort because it violates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
2. List: The monuments list is needed. But I also
found a page introducing database something like that, and seems complicated. So is this
also necessary or we only need to make some lists instead of database.
If you make
lists using templates a robot will pick up the data and put
it in the database making all the shared tools also available for China.
Please take a look at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_secret_flow_of_Wiki_Loves_Monum…
and
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database#Structured_li…
Hope this helps
Maarten