I would suggest concerning the id's is that the id's have to be unique for
whole China. I think the Chinese government has assigned codes to at least
provinces but I guess also to smaller areas. Depending on the situation choose
for <province code>-<prefecture code>-... But it depends on in what area the
code is unique, if the prefecture code of every prefecture is unique everywhere
in China, use that as base, if it is only unique in the province, the
prefecture code must be preceded by the code of the province.
Romaine
--- On Thu, 6/6/13, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> wrote:
From: rupert THURNER <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] News From China
To: "Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition"
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Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 6:36 PM
You mean something like this for the regions?
http://www.statoids.com/ucn.html
Rupert
Am 06.06.2013 20:03 schrieb "AddisWang" <[email protected]>:
Hi Sven
I have to say your Chinese is great, especially you can really type it rather
than only speaking. Let me know if any thing I can help. :)
Actually we decide to use area code plus serial number as unique id if we can
create our own. Not only the situation in China is little different with other
countries, but even in the relative branches of government might have different
id system. But still thanks for all your advice.
Addis在 2013-6-7，上午1:43，Sven Manguard <[email protected]> 写道：
I personally don't think that the lack of "official" IDs should exclude a
country from participation, but I'm not part of the international organizing
team and can't speak for them.
Some suggestions for creating an ID system yourself. I studied a bit of Chinese
myself (我的汉语太不好, 我学习汉语了一年半了.) (I really hope that's correct) so I know better
than to suggest "alphabetical order" However:
If all of the items you want to include have known geographic coordinates, you
can go from northwest to southeast by province and assign each spot a number
(Yunnan 1, Yunnan 2, Yunnan 3, etc)
If all of the items you want to include have Wikipedia articles (in any
language), you don't even have to make up the numbers yourself, you could use
the (essentially random) numbers that Wikidata uses (i.e. Yuanmingyuan is on
Wikidata as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q907894 so you could use 907894).
Finally, you could try to do it based on age, but since many of the cites
you're going to photograph are going to be from the Dynastic period, and dates
can get a little fuzzy if you go back too far, that might not be a viable
option.
The downside to the first one is that if you add new items next year or the
year after, things are going to be out of geographical order. The downside to
the second one is the numbers are random and there are going to be large gaps
in between most of them.
These are just ideas though, you might have a better system in mind.
Sven
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM, AddisWang <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All
I'm Addis Wang, the organizer of WLM in China this year. Just confirming that
China will attend the competition this year.
And there are some questions in the preparing if someone would like to help us.
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?
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.
Best,
Addis Wang
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