Wikidata:Property proposal/Gaia ID

Gaia ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

   Done: Gaia ID (P13228) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Object ID in the Gaia catalog (Data Release 3 unless otherwise stated)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	instances and subclasses of star (Q523)
Example 1	BS Cnc (Q2889194) → 661284024235415808
Example 2	Gliese 450 (Q5880899) → 4031586157514097024
Example 3	TYC 3645-2080-1 (Q75838267) → 1943381927312402304
Allowed values	[0-9]{18}
Planned use	migrate all catalog code (P528) values qualified with catalog (P972) Gaia Data Release 3 (Q66061041) to this property
Formatter URL	https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-S?Gaia%20DR3%20$1

Motivation

This proposal is inspired by Wikidata:Property_proposal/SIMBAD_catalog_properties_(used_more_than_1_million_times) by User:Mahir256. In 2024 (and probably for a few years to come), Gaia DR3 ID is considered the most reliable star identifier and provides access to the most accurate astrometric information.

Discussion

Arlo Barnes Athulvis Buller1 cdo256 Cekli829 Harlock81 Jc3s5h JenlovesbigD J. N. Squire Jura1 Kepler-1229b LiMr Manlleus AyberkKZ Meodudlye, with only limited amount of time to spend in the foreseable future. Mike Peel mu301 (mikeu) Paperoastro Path slopu Ptolusque Romuald 2 Sarilho1 Shisma Simon Villeneuve SM5POR Tom.Reding VIGNERON Wallacegromit1 - generally like to add ground and space observatory instrument data Ysogo Jck1337 Phantomdj

Notified participants of WikiProject Astronomy. Samoasambia ✎ 05:32, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

•  Support Important widely-used optical survey, having a separate ID makes a lot of sense. It does only need one property, though, not a separate one for each data release. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:56, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
•  Support —Tom.Reding (talk) 09:03, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
•  Support--Manlleus (talk) 10:43, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Harlock81 (talk) 14:25, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
•  Comment Is it really a good idea to migrate catalog code (P528) values to this property? This will create an inconsistency with other catalogues. Romuald 2 (talk) 15:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Romuald 2, yes it's a *very* good idea. All catalogs with a specific identifier are modeled like this, not doing it for Gaia would only create inconsistency. Plus, beyond consistency, redundancy is bad. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 15:15, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 18:19, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
•  Strong support obviously, I wonder why it hasn't been done already a long time ago . Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 15:15, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Athulvis (talk) 17:11, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

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@Mike Peel, Tom.Reding, Manlleus, Harlock81, Romuald 2, VIGNERON: @Kepler-1229b, Athulvis:  Done: Gaia ID (P13228). --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 17:25, 10 January 2025 (UTC)