Wikidata:Property proposal/classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for this document

protective marking

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

   Done: protective marking (P10129) (Talk and documentation)

Description	label applied to an intellectual work to indicate how the document should be handled, particularly from a security or privacy perspective
Represents	information classification (Q59157145)
Data type	Item
Domain	Wikibase MediaInfo (Q59712033), intellectual work (Q15621286)
Allowed values	instance or subclass of (Q30208840) information classification (Q59157145)
Example 1	Briefing on the Current Situation in the Ideological Realm (Q14927965) → Internal Readings (Q108881324)
Example 2	Göring Telegram (Q5626665) → Secret! (Q108818601)
Example 3	NSC-68 (Q3367946) → Top Secret (Q108881334)
Example 4	Soviet Military Policy in the Third World (Q108916440) → NOFORN (Q109927795), NOCONTRACT (Q81983931)
Source	w:en:category:classified documents and elsewhere
Planned use	start checking documents in the linked enwiki category
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Robot and gadget jobs	probably not automatable
See also	copyright status (P6216), issued by (P2378)/issuing agent of work (P9901), law identifier (P8550), etc.
Distinct-values constraint	no

Motivation

An important but seemingly underdocumented aspect of metadata. Arlo Barnes (talk) 01:46, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support Interesting - maybe should have an "end date" qualifier if we know about a document presumably it's no longer in one of these categories? ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:16, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, that was my thinking. As public as Wikidata and Commons are, we can presume that any document recorded by them was either fully declassified or leaked before it could be. But even beyond that, documents often record the classification history -- 'upgrades' and 'downgrades', in cases where they occurred. Arlo Barnes (talk) 20:44, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Can you clarify a more complex example of [1] where the classification is "SECRET NOFORN/NOCONTRACT". Would this property have 3 values being "SECRET", "NOFORN" and "NOCONTRACT"? --Dhx1 (talk) 12:29, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Yes, I believe so. The enwiki article on US classification asserts that only SECRET is the classification proper, and the other values are 'categories', which is why I phrased the property title the way I did (although I welcome any suggestions to make it less cumbersome). In a little while I'll add that one as an example. Arlo Barnes (talk) 20:44, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
    •  Support I suggest that series ordinal (P1545) could be used to list the categories/tags by the order they appear should this be needed. --Dhx1 (talk) 11:16, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment There are many types of document classification systems that don't refer to government "classified documents"; I'd really like the label and description to indicate more specifically that we're referring to the notion of "secrecy" (or is there a better term?). (I'd also like a less complex label!) Perhaps "secrecy classification or category"? (Does that translate well?) - PKM (talk) 21:53, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Yeah a better label would be helful. The current label could be just anything. @Epìdosis: what you do think? --- Jura 13:43, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
    • I appreciate "secrecy classification" or "secrecy category"; maybe also "degree of secrecy". --Epìdosis 13:54, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
      • Yes, let's try to go for a label people can understand rather than some vague ambiguous circumscription. The big question is if we'd actually have such data. --- Jura 12:10, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment I suggest renaming the property to "protective marking" and expanding the domain to include other types of information including software, images and videos. ISO/IEC 27001 (Q852641) section 8.2.2 "Labelling of information" (see [2] for a copy of this section) appears to be an applicable international standard applicable to this property proposal, but no suggested terminology is provided, other than perhaps "information label". This could be a suitable alias, as could "classification marking", "classification label", etc. --Dhx1 (talk) 11:53, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
  •  Comment Updated English label with new suggested name, updated subject item, domain, allowed values and disabled single best value constraint (as information could have multiple markings/labels applied e.g. document is declassified and contains both an old and new marking). --Dhx1 (talk) 12:02, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

• Weadock313 (talk) 01:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC) 2le2im-bdc (talk) 19:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC) Beat Estermann (talk) 23:29, 1 June 2018 (UTC) Flor WMCH Gilliane Kern (talk) 05:47, 5 June 2018 (UTC) Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 23:42, 1 September 2018 (UTC) Laureano Macedo (talk) 09:49, 13 September 2018 (UTC) Daniel Mietchen VIGNERON Patafisik anarchivist KelliBee123 (talk) 16:29, 6 August 2019 (UTC) :kedouch Kedouch (talk) 11:43, 6 December 2023 (UTC) Anne Chardonnens (talk) Yooylee 30 (talk) 23:15, 11 August 2019 (UTC) Mlemusrojas (talk) 19:40, 19 February 2019 (UTC) erussey Kcohenp (talk) 16:28, 03 June 2019 (UTC) Mrtngrsbch Amandine (talk) 19:58, 12 August 2019 (UTC) RenéLC (talk) 11:17, 13 February 2020 (UTC) Sp!ros (talk) 09:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC) Ccooneycuny (talk) 16:49, 19 May 2020 (UTC) Librarian lena (talk) 19:57, 11 August 2020 (UTC) Valeriummaximum (talk) 16:42, 23 August 2020 (UTC) Jneubert (talk) 07:11, 24 September 2020 (UTC) MaryCDominique (talk) 10:06, 25 October 2020 (UTC) Epìdosis 17:16, 16 February 2021 (UTC) P feliciati (talk) 17:18, 16 February 2021 (UTC) JnyBn (talk) 07:27, 22 April 2021 (UTC) Hsarrazin (talk) 13:25, 1 July 2021 (UTC) Carlobia (talk) 15:27, 6 October 2021 (UTC) Heberlei (talk) 20:19, 29 July 2021 (UTC) KAMEDA, Akihiro (talk) 18:30, 18 September 2021 (UTC) Jonathan Groß (talk) 08:41, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
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•  Comment I propose to use the term "confidentiality" in the label. --2le2im-bdc (talk) 19:37, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Thanks for the comments so far. I especially appreciate the thoughts on the label name (such as emphasis on 'secrecy' or 'confidentiality') and the property scope. I'd like to clarify through discussion what wouldn't be in scope. To my mind, the intention is to describe the main ways that formal bodies attempt to control information flow -- that would include governments and large corporations, but not (say) someone labelling a time capsule as "don't open until [date]", or other improvised or informal system (even where notable enough to data-model some other way). My hope is that this encourages verifiability, in that it can be confirmed or ruled out whether a body is known to employ a given marking at a specified juncture to control the information flow. Arlo Barnes (talk) 07:01, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Comment Marked as ready as the discussion appears to be complete and there are support votes and no oppose votes to this proposal. The exact label can be changed after property creation if anyone sees a need. --Dhx1 (talk) 09:40, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
• @Dhx1, Arlo Barnes, Epìdosis, PKM, ArthurPSmith: done as protective marking (P10129). Please complete it as needed. --- Jura 11:16, 10 December 2021 (UTC)