Wikidata:Property proposal/National Registry of Exonerations Case ID
National Registry of Exonerations Case ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | Case ID for an individual listed in a database of people who have been exonerated of crimes in the United States |
|---|---|
| Represents | exonerated of (P7781) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | human (Q5) |
| Allowed values | /\d{4,}/ --- right now there are only four digit ids, but eventually there may be more |
| Example 1 | Clarence Elkins (Q5126508) → 3202 |
| Example 2 | Jeffrey Mark Deskovic (Q3400908) → 3171 |
| Example 3 | Tim Cole (Q7803334) → 3114 |
| Example 4 | Clarence Brandley (Q5126417) 3044 |
| Example 5 | Darryl Hunt (Q4165863) 3314 |
| Source | https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx |
| Planned use | I am currently starting in a project of adding exonerated of (P7781) to items where it applies. In cases where the exonerated person is in the United States, I'd like to be able to use the ID to link to their entry in the registry. The registry contains more data and sometimes a better article than the one in Wikipedia. |
| Number of IDs in source | 2641 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=$1 |
| Robot and gadget jobs | It's possible that some work could be done by bots, but given the sensitive nature of criminal justice conviction data, I think it's most likely that a collected-by-bot, vetted-by-human would be the most appropriate. I think that having the identifier linked here would at least open the door to having a bot mine some details from the registry. |
Motivation[edit]
In 2019, I proposed the exonerated of (P7781) property to represent information about people found not to be guilty of a crime after sentencing. Although the property was approved a few months ago, I'm only now getting around to put the property to work. When I proposed the property, I was not aware of the registry of exonerations; now that I know of it, I'm finding it to be an important source of reliable data and want to get links in place where appropriate. In practice, I'm using it as a ref url frequently, but in the spirit of linked data, I think that a structured data identifier would be an appropriate way thing to add. Kenirwin (talk) 20:02, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Support --Jneubert (talk) 13:39, 13 July 2020 (UTC)- Support --Wskent (talk) 17:48, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Done @Kenirwin, Jneubert, Wskent: created as National Registry of Exonerations Case ID (P8479). Enjoy! --99of9 (talk) 06:44, 22 July 2020 (UTC)