Wikidata:WikiProject Cultural venues/Datathon

What is a Datathon? edit

In general, a datathon is an event that brings together data specialists over few days to work collaboratively on an issue.

For this particular cultural venues datathon, participants will work together in a relaxed and informal session to populate Wikidata with venue information. Participants will be supervised and supported by facilitators to make the activity as easy and productive as possible for everyone. This will not be a competition, but rather a collective effort in which everyone can contribute according to their skills and time. No previous Wikidata experience will be required. This (Wiki)Datathon is intended to be a unifying activity that supports the overall goals of this Wikiproject.

Aim and Scope edit

The Cultural venues datathon serves following goals:

support the practical learning of the whole community through guided editing sessions open to anyone;
increase the number of Wikidata items about cultural buildings, with a focus on performing arts buildings;
increase the quality of data about cultural buildings.

Background edit

Cultural venues are an important part of the performing arts ecosystem. Theatres, concert halls, black boxes, music venues: these purpose-built facilities offer optimal conditions for audiences to attend live performances.

It’s important then, to make sure that these venues as well as the performances that take place within them are described with precision and accuracy by the entire ecosystem that revolves around these places and spaces. In order to meet the objective of creating the most complete and high quality database on performing arts buildings and spaces – jazz clubs, dance theatres, opera houses, performing arts centres, etc. – we invite the community to gather in an online datathon to enrich the quantity and quality of data related to cultural venues.

Where, when, how edit

Where: Online by Zoom (details below)

When: Monday, April 25 to Friday, April 29, 2022, with a wrap-up event on Monday, May 2, 2022

Detailed schedule and registration links:

Guided editing sessions in English, from April 25 to May 2.
Guided editing sessions in French, from April 25 to May 2.
Wikidata Coffee Breaks, supplementary activities to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues, from April 25 to April 29, 2022 .
Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.

The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is also availabe in this Google Calendar view.

Help desk: Questions from participants and answers from datathon team members will be posted on this discussion page. You may ask your questions directly on this page by creating a new topic.

Resources edit

Datathon Toolbox: This Google presentation includes introductory information for beginners as well as lists of recommended properties and tips.
Complete list of properties in the WikiProject Cultural venues.
List Wikidata items to edit: performing arts buildings without coordinate location
List Wikidata items to edit: performing arts buildings with coordinate location
Calendar view of Cultural Venues Datathon
Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, minutes from the dialogue held April 26, 2022
How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, minutes from the supplementary Datathon activity held April 27, 2022.

Outcomes edit

Performance indicators

Outreach Dashboard: a dashboard to track edits during the datathon.
Overview of Cultural Venues Datathon outcomes
Datathon recap video

Sample items

Here are a few items created or edited during the datathon. These are items are instances of performing arts building (Q57660343) (or subclasses of) with has part(s) (P527) statements linking the main building to its individual performance space(s).

Queries

#Performing arts buildings with geolocation in Canada, viewed as a map
#defaultView:Map
select distinct ?itemLabel ?item ?géo where {SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
  ?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q57660343 ; wdt:P17 wd:Q16 ; wdt:P625 ?géo .
                                            minus {?item wdt:P31 wd:Q130003 .}  # Excluding sports venues
                                         MINUS {?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279*   wd:Q41253 . # Excluding movie theatres
                                         }
                                         }

Try it!

#Performing arts buildings without geolocation in Canada 
select distinct ?itemLabel ?item where {SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
                                       ?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q57660343 ; 
                                            (wdt:P17|wdt:P495) wd:Q16 .
                                        minus {?item wdt:P625 ?geo .}
                                        minus {?item wdt:P31 wd:Q130003 .}
                                         MINUS {?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279*   wd:Q41253 . # Excluding movie theatres
                                         }
                                         }