Hi Yaroslav,
Op 5-3-2012 9:57, Yaroslav M. Blanter schreef:
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).
Do these monuments have the same status? For example in the Netherlands
we have Rijksmonumenten for the state monuments, but also Gemeentelijke
monumenten which are designated by the municipalities.
So how is the progress going with the federal database? What are the
plans? Are you going to put the lists in the main namespace on
Wikipedia? A broken and incomplete database is always better than no
database at all.
<...> I did
not discuss it with the organizers (and for Russia, there are currently no
organizing team anyway).
No team in Russia? Russia pulled of such a nice competition last year in
so little time. This year has so much potential. Would be a waste if
Russia wouldn't be joining in. What happened with the people who
organized it last year?
Maarten
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