Wikidata:Property proposal/DVIDS Photo ID
DVIDS Photo ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | A DVIDS identifier is a numerical identifier which uniquely identifies an image on DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service). |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | Commons images |
| Allowed values | integer (Q12503) |
| Example 1 | File:2nd Air Refueling Squadron refuels B-2's 161110-F-GV347-141.jpg→"3043789" |
| Example 2 | File:Ch-47 Chinook helicopters take off in the early morning in support of Operation Anaconda, March 2002.jpg→"1" |
| Example 3 | File:USMC-110314-M-VD766-004.jpg→"377461" and "377197" |
| Number of IDs in source | Around 3 millions on 26 March 2025 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/$1 |
| See also | VIRIN (P12967) |
| Wikidata project | Wikimedia Commons (Q565) |
Motivation
[edit]Images hosted on DVIDS have a VIRIN identifier but also an internal Photo ID which is used in the URL. For example, https://www.dvidshub.net/image/375240 corresponds to the image with VIRIN 110108-M-NB885-002. As far as I can tell, permalinks including the VIRIN identifier are not available for DVIDS. And searching images by VIRIN identified on DVIDS sometimes doesn't work:
- https://www.dvidshub.net/search?q=110108-M-NB885-002&view=grid
- https://www.dvidshub.net/search/?q=%22110108-M-NB885-002%22&view=grid
Note that there is also a terrible beta search being worked on (https://www.dvidshub.net/search/beta) which doesn't allow passing URL search parameters. It also is unable to find the example image.
My suggestion is add a property to enable keeping track of the DVIDS identifier. There are around 600k images on Commons which would benefit from this. The field in the structured data could be a direct link to dvidshub.net.
Note that:
- Some images on DVIDS don't have a VIRIN number. See Example 2.
- There are duplicates on DVIDS, meaning there can be more than 1 "DVIDS Photo ID" for a single VIRIN ID. See Example 3.
– The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cryptic-waveform (talk • contribs) at 26 March 2025 (UTC).
Discussion
[edit]- @Multichill:. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 06:44, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
Support sounds like a plan. Multichill (talk) 17:14, 27 March 2025 (UTC)- @Cryptic-waveform, Multichill, Lewis Hulbert:
Done I wasn't sure what commons properties usually have for constraints, those still need to be added. Probably other statements also. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:37, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
