Wikidata:Property proposal/Geolex ID

Geolex ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

Done: Geolex ID (P6202) (Talk and documentation)

Description	the ID for every stratigraphic unit in the United States of America (USA) given by the United States Geological Survey
Data type	External identifier
Template parameter	not included in any infobox, but would be a good way of linking to the primary data
Domain	Item
Example 1	Squantum Member -> Squantum_3930
Example 2	Aztec Sandstone (Q4832955) -> Aztec_4626
Example 3	Thumb member (Q57314070) -> Thumb_6240
Example 4	Allalin Glacier (Q674665) -> Mancos_9165
Source	https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/search
Planned use	adding lithographic units from the GEOLEX database and adding connection to database items such as publications, maps, etc.
Number of IDs in source	over 16,000
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/Units/$1.html
Robot and gadget jobs	Bots could gather ids for existing stratigraphic unit items

Motivation

I would like to give structure to the multitude of formations, shales, sandstones, conglomerates, etc. I'd like to unify those lithostratigraphic units with their source publications, maps, and other units above and below in the stratigraphic column.Trilotat (talk) 03:24, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Trilotat: did you try to contact the database manager(s)? (this is completely optional, but from recent experiences I learned that this could be very useful). Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 20:01, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@VIGNERON: I didn't, but I should. If they would part with the data, that would speed up the work, wouldn't it? -Trilotat (talk) 20:32, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@VIGNERON: I have recently learned a little about webscraping and have been successful scraping some simple USGS data. I would like to scraping scraping this GEOLEX data, but the web addresses are a bit more complex, i.e. using both letters and numbers in the URL. How to scrap that isn't so clear to me. I've created a new and related proposal here if you're willing to support (or not support) it.Trilotat (talk) 21:17, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support very useful for referencing geology items in the US. - PKM (talk) 01:44, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support David (talk) 07:16, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think this sounds useful and unproblematic, but I do not know too much of the field. As said earlier, working in collaboration with the data manager you will get valuable help. Getting them onboard will have an effect in their scientific community. – Susanna Ånäs (Susannaanas) (talk) 17:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]