Wikidata:WikiProject Cultural venues/Data structure
Note that there is a separate page with an overview of data modelling issues.
Model Items edit
Palais Montcalm edit
Building item: Palais Montcalm (Q3360900), with its two performance halls:
Schauspielhaus Zürich edit
Building item: Schauspielhaus Zürich (Q675022), with its main stage:
Carnegie Hall edit
Building item: Carnegie Hall (Q200959), with its various parts:
- Weill Recital Hall (Q52277228) (auditorium which has had its name changed several times)
- Carnegie Lyceum (Q52288886) (former theatrical and recital venue), preceded by Recital Hall (Q52289473)
Data structure for venues edit
By definition, the English word venue is defined as a "place where a public event or a meeting happens" (see https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/venue). In common usage, the word venue is often assimilated with the bricks and mortar building where events happen. However, conceptually, a venue can be any place, human-made or natural, indoors or outdoors, where humans gather for public events or activities. Translations for the English word venue may carry slightly different meanings.
In contrast, the term building is generally defined in terminology databases and authority files as a construction work or structure providing shelter for occupants or contents. In simple language, it can be defined as a “structure with walls and a roof” (see https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/building). The notion of building provides conceptual clarity for Wikidata items describing entire architectural structures.
In Wikidata, the concept of event venue (Q18674739) is too generic and too loosely defined to enable accurate descriptions of cultural places. More specific classes such as performing arts building (Q57660343) and classes describing individual rooms within buildings such as performance hall (Q112688641) provide the right level of clarity and of granularity to meet the aim of this WikiProject.
This being said, for the sake of consistency with the name of this WikiProject, the word venue was preserved in the following data structure.
Properties for performing art venues edit
The following tables provide properties and examples for how to structure the data for cultural venues. There is also a series of notes further down the page explaining how to create distinct Wikidata items for the building, its individual rooms and the organization managing the venue.
General edit
invalid 'id' parameter should be a number or 'new', is P2048
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| instance of | P31 | Item | instance of: that class of which this subject is a particular example and member; different from P279 (subclass of); for example: K2 is an instance of mountain; volcano is a subclass of mountain (and an instance of volcanic landform) | Grand Théâtre de Québec <instance of> performing arts center | - |
| name | P2561 | Monolingual text | name, full name and musical group name: name the subject is known by. If a more specific property is available, use that | Théâtre de la Ville <name> Théâtre Lyrique Impérial (French) | - |
| named after | P138 | Item | eponym, memorial society and namesakes: entity or event that inspired the subject's name, or namesake (in at least one language). Qualifier "applies to name" (P5168) can be used to indicate which one | The Steve Allen Playhouse <named after> Steve Allen | - |
| date of official opening | P1619 | Point in time | opening ceremony, opening and inauguration: date or point in time an event, museum, theater etc. officially opened | King's Hall <date of official opening> 4 April 1904 | - |
| inception | P571 | Point in time | date of establishment: time when an entity begins to exist; for date of official opening use P1619 | Queen Louise Kirsch Puppet Theater <inception> 1964 | - |
| significant event | P793 | Item | key event: significant or notable events associated with the subject | pavillon Pierre-Lassonde <significant event> start of manufacturing | - |
| official website | P856 | URL | official website and home page: URL of the official page of an item (current or former). Usage: If a listed URL no longer points to the official website, do not remove it, but see the "Hijacked or dead websites" section of the Talk page | Tolhuisgarden <official website> http://tolhuistuin.nl | - |
| operator | P137 | Item | operator: person, profession, or organization that operates the equipment, facility, or service | Place des Arts <operator> Société de la Place des Arts de Montréal | item operated |
| owned by | P127 | Item | proprietor, property and owned by: owner of the subject | National Arts Centre <owned by> Government of Canada | owner of |
| occupant | P466 | Item | person or organization occupying property | Palais Garnier <occupant> Paris Opera | - |
| architect | P84 | Item | architect and architectural firm: person or architectural firm responsible for designing this building | Copenhagen Opera House <architect> Henning Larsen | - |
| architectural style | P149 | Item | architectural style: architectural style of a structure | Palais Garnier <architectural style> Second Empire style | - |
| heritage designation | P1435 | Item | historic preservation and heritage designation: heritage designation of a cultural or natural site | Massey Hall <heritage designation> national historic site of Canada | - |
| structure replaces | P1398 | Item | structure replaced: the item this building or structure replaced, at the same geographic location | Royal Shakespeare Theatre <structure replaces> Shakespeare Memorial Theatre | structure replaced by |
| structure replaced by | P167 | Item | replacement structure: the item which replaced this building or structure, at the same geographic location | Southwark Towers <structure replaced by> The Shard | structure replaces |
| has part(s) | P527 | Item | has part, consist of and meronymy: part of this subject; inverse property of "part of" (P361). See also "has parts of the class" (P2670). | Palais Montcalm <has part(s)> Raoul-Jobin Hall | part of |
| has part(s) of the class | P2670 | Item | has parts of class: the subject has one or more parts of the object class | Raoul-Jobin Hall <has part(s) of the class> stage | - |
| width | P2049 | Quantity | width and road width: width of an object | stage <width> 20 metre | - |
| horizontal depth | P5524 | Quantity | depth: spatial extent for 3D object along the third axis, what is most commonly referred to as its depth. Compare with "vertical depth" (P4511) | stage <horizontal depth> 11 metre | - |
| maximum capacity | P1083 | Quantity | seating capacity and individual seat: number of people allowed for a venue or vehicle | Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier <maximum capacity> 2996 | - |
| area | P2046 | Quantity | area: area occupied by an object | Guloien Theatre <area> 2600 | - |
| disabled accessibility | P2846 | Item | wheelchair accessibility and accessibility for people with visual disabilities: describes disabled accessibility of location or event | Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts <disabled accessibility> wheelchair accessible | - |
Image edit
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| image | P18 | Commons media file | illustration and image: image of relevant illustration of the subject; if available, also use more specific properties (sample: coat of arms image, locator map, flag image, signature image, logo image, collage image) | Douglas Adams <image> Douglas adams portrait cropped.jpg | - |
| image of design plans | P3311 | Commons media file | plan and plot plan: image representing the plan of a building or place | Stejărișu fortified church <image of design plans> Planul fortificatiei din Stejarisu.jpg | - |
| image of interior | P5775 | Commons media file | image of the inside of an architectural structure, vehicle or other enclosed space | Teatro Bibiena <image of interior> Mantova, teatro bibiena, interno 01,0.jpg | - |
| spherical panorama image | P4640 | Commons media file | spherical panorama: image with the field of view 360×180 degrees | Stegeborg Castle <spherical panorama image> Stegeborgs slottsruin 2016 10.jpg | - |
| nighttime view | P3451 | Commons media file | nighttime view: image at night or in twilight | Ponce de Leon Inlet Light <nighttime view> Ponce Inlet Lighthouse at night - panoramio.jpg | - |
| aerial view | P8592 | Commons media file | aerial view: image of the subject taken from the air | Palace of Versailles <aerial view> Vue aérienne du domaine de Versailles par ToucanWings - Creative Commons By Sa 3.0 - 073.jpg | - |
| panoramic view | P4291 | Commons media file | panorama: panoramic view of the object | Förkärla Church <panoramic view> Förkärla kyrka 20160421 06.jpg | - |
Location edit
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | P17 | Item | country: sovereign state that this item is in (not to be used for human beings) | Tolhuisgarden <country> Netherlands | - |
| located in the administrative territorial entity | P131 | Item | administrative territorial entity: the item is located on the territory of the following administrative entity. Use P276 for specifying locations that are non-administrative places and for items about events. Use P1382 if the item falls only partially into the administrative entity. | Magnet Theater <located in the administrative territorial entity> Manhattan | - |
| coordinate location | P625 | Geographic coordinates | geographic coordinate: geocoordinates of the subject. For Earth, please note that only WGS84 coordinating system is supported at the moment | Mount Everest <coordinate location> 27° 59′ 17.00″ N 86° 55′ 31.00″ E | - |
| located on street | P669 | Item | street: street, road, or square, where the item is located. To add the number, use Property:P670 "house number" as qualifier. Use property P6375 "street address", if there is no item for the street | Palais Montcalm <located on street> Place D'Youville | - |
| postal code | P281 | String | postal code: identifier assigned by postal authorities for the subject area or building | Palais Montcalm <postal code> G1R 3P1 | - |
| street address | P6375 | Monolingual text | street address, address and street: full street address where subject is located. Include building number, city/locality, post code, but not country; use also P669 if the street has its own separate item | Grand Théâtre de Québec <street address> 269, boulevard René-Lévesque Est, Québec (Québec) G1R 2B3 (French) | - |
Identification edit
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeoNames ID | P1566 | External identifier | identifier in the GeoNames geographical database | Piton de la Fournaise <GeoNames ID> 935877 | - |
| ISNI | P213 | External identifier | International Standard Name Identifier: International Standard Name Identifier for an identity. Starting with 0000. | Switzerland <ISNI> 0000000122974701 | - |
| MusicBrainz place ID | P1004 | External identifier | Identifier for a place in the MusicBrainz open music encyclopedia | Abbey Road Studios <MusicBrainz place ID> bd55aeb7-19d1-4607-a500-14b8479d3fed | - |
| Songkick venue ID | P3977 | External identifier | identifier for a venue, on Songkick | Birmingham Town Hall <Songkick venue ID> 1770 | - |
| TripAdvisor ID | P3134 | External identifier | identifier of a place (region, hotel, restaurant, attraction), in TripAdvisor | Saint Paul hermitage <TripAdvisor ID> 4037786 | - |
| EUTA theatre ID | P4535 | External identifier | EUTA theatre ID: identifier for a theatre in the European Theatre Architecture (EUTA) database | Municipal Theatre of Mladá Boleslav <EUTA theatre ID> 31 | - |
| Flanders Arts Institute venue ID | P3820 | External identifier | identifier of a venue in the Flanders Arts Institute database for performing arts | KVS <Flanders Arts Institute venue ID> 131036 | - |
| Instagram location ID | P4173 | External identifier | identifier for a location on Instagram | Kananaskis Village <Instagram location ID> 256381493 | - |
Notes on properties for cultural venues edit
- Make sure that you create separate items for the venue and the organization. For example: Schauspielhaus Zürich (Q675022) is operated by Schauspielhaus Zürich (Q40313234). If you stumble upon items that describe both a venue and an organization, follow these instructions to disentangle them.
- For instance of (P31) statements:
- If the item describes an entire building, state it as an instance of performing arts building (Q57660343) or any of its subclasses: performing arts center (Q3469910), theatre building (Q24354), concert hall (Q1060829), opera house (Q153562).
- If the item describes a performance space within a building, state it an instance of performance hall (Q112688641).
- If a building has many different performance spaces, rehearsal spaces and/or other public spaces, create distinct items for each individual space and link them to the larger building with has part(s) (P527)/part of (P361) statements. Individual spaces/rooms within a building can be instances of: performance hall (Q112688641), music venue (Q8719053), rehearsal room (Q1911008), exhibition space (Q15206795), conference room (Q3469909), foyer (Q1431210).
- If a building has multiple performance spaces, maximum capacity (P1083) statements should be provided for each individual space.
- Stage dimensions can be documented in performance hall (Q112688641) items. State has part(s) of the class (P2670)stage (Q194428), and then provide the width (P2049), horizontal depth (P5524) and height (P2048) as qualifiers (as in this model item).
- In order to facilitate reuse of venue information, it is good practice to provide a hyperlink to the technical rider of a performance hall (Q112688641). Use described at URL (P973) to state the URL of the technical rider and then qualify the statement with object has role (P3831)technical specification (Q20819677) to indicate that the destination URL is a technical document. If a technical rider is available in multiple languages, provide additional values and differentiate each URL with a language of work or name (P407) qualifier.
- A building may serve different functions and change names over time. Additional instance of (P31) statements can be added and name (P2561) statements can be used for former names. In such cases, start time (P580) and end time (P582) qualifiers should be provided.
- If the primary function of a venue is not to host live performances but it is still described as a performing arts venue in an external database, then it is not recommended to use additional instance of (P31) statements. Instead, has use (P366)performing arts (Q184485) can convey this secondary function of the venue (as seen in Café culture (Q123529912)).
- In addition to date of official opening (P1619), a significant event (P793) statement can be made to indicate the start of manufacturing (Q27136782) of the building.
- For located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) statements, it is good practice to use the smallest administrative territorial entity (neighbourhood, district, ward, etc.) in which the building is located. Larger administrative territorial entities can be inferred from smaller ones.
- Some items incorrectly use location (P276) to state the city in which a venue is located. The right property for this information is located in the administrative territorial entity (P131).
- In order to support geocoding and other kinds of data processing, it is recommended to populate the postal code as a stand-alone triple with the postal code (P281) property (in addition to populating it as part of street address (P6375)).
- OpenStreetMap is a very useful open database that contains geographic information about many things, including cultural venues. While it is not possible to link from a Wikidata venue item to an OpenStreetMap way, it is possible to link from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata using the OSM Wikidata tag. Use Nominatim to search cultural venues in OpenStreetMap and to verify if they have a tag linking to the equivalent Wikidata item.
Mapping Infobox Templates edit
Several Wikipedias, such as the English and Portuguese Wikipedias, are using a very general Infobox venue template to describe sports and cultural venues alike. The French and a few other Wikipedias are using a template for cultural venues that covers both theatre and music venues (Infobox Salle de spectacle). Other Wikipedias, such as the German, Spanish, Russian and Italian Wikipedias, are using a specific template for theatre venues (Infobox theatre); they may not have specific templates for music venues (ex. the German, Spanish, Italian Wikipedias).
Some of them contain a mix of parameters, some pertaining to a building and others to an organization.
Infobox templates used to describe venues in general edit
| Wikidata | en | pt |
|---|---|---|
| - | name | |
| nickname (P1449) | nickname | |
| - | native_name | |
| - | native_name_lang | |
| - | fullname | |
| - | former names | |
| logo image (P154) | logo_image | |
| - | logo_caption | |
| image (P18) | image | |
| - | image_size | |
| - | image_alt | |
| - | caption | |
| - | pushpin_map | |
| - | pushpin_mapsize | |
| - | pushpin_map_caption | |
| - | pushpin_label_position | |
| - | pushpin_relief | |
| street address (P6375) | address: street address | |
| located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) | address: city | |
| country (P17) | address: country | |
| - | location | |
| coordinate location (P625) | coordinates | |
| - | elevation | |
| - | type | |
| genre (P136) | genre | |
| - | broke_ground | |
| inception (P571) | built | |
| date of official opening (P1619) | opened | |
| - | renovated | |
| - | expanded | |
| date of official closure (P3999) | closed | |
| - | demolished | |
| owned by (P127) | owner | |
| operator (P137) | operator | |
| - | surface | |
| - | scoreboard | |
| - | production | |
| cost (P2130) | cost | |
| architect (P84) | architect | |
| main building contractor (P193) | builder | |
| - | project manager | |
| - | structural engineer | |
| - | services engineer | |
| - | general contractor | |
| - | main contractors | |
| - | seating type | |
| maximum capacity (P1083) | capacity | |
| - | suites | |
| - | record attendance | |
| - | dimensions | |
| - | field shape | |
| - | acreage | |
| - | volume | |
| - | tenants | |
| - | embedded | |
| official website (P856) | website | |
| - | public transit |
Infobox templates used to describe performing arts venues edit
bold = mandatory
(-) = no parameter is provided
| Wikidata | de (theatre) | es (theatre) | fr (theatre & music) | it (theatre) | ru (theatre) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | charte | ||
| - | Name | - | Nom | ||
| said to be the same as (P460) | - | - | Nom autre | ||
| - | - | - | anciens noms | ||
| image (P18) | Bild | - | image | ||
| - | Bildgrösse | - | - | ||
| - | Bildbeschreibung | - | légende | ||
| - | - | - | surnom | ||
| legal form (P1454) | - | - | statut | ||
| - | - | - | gestion | ||
| - | - | - | structure-mère | ||
| - | - | - | tutelle | ||
| director / manager (P1037) | - | - | direction | ||
| - | - | - | direction artistique | ||
| - | - | - | composante | ||
| - | - | - | protection | ||
| - | - | - | résidence | ||
| - | - | - | direction artistique | ||
| - | - | - | type | ||
| street address (P6375) | Adresse | - | - | ||
| located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) | Stadt | - | lieu | ||
| - | NS | - | latitude | ||
| - | EW | - | longitude | ||
| - | REGION-ISO | - | - | ||
| - | DIM | - | - | ||
| - | Baugebinn | - | - | ||
| - | Bauende | - | - | ||
| legal form (P1454) | Eröffnet | - | inauguration | ||
| date of official closure (P3999) | - | - | fermeture | ||
| - | - | - | salles | ||
| maximum capacity (P1083) | Zuschauer | - | places | ||
| - | Zuschauer_unbestuhlt | - | - | ||
| architect (P84) | Architekt | - | architecte | ||
| named after (P138) | Benannt_nach | - | - | ||
| - | Jahr_Benennung | - | - | ||
| official website (P856) | Homepage | - | web | - | |
| - | Notizen | - | - |