Wikidata:WikiProject Performing arts
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Aim and Scope
editThe aim of the present project is to create the world’s most complete high quality database of performing arts productions, literary and artistic works related to the performing arts (theatre plays, musical compositions, choreographic works), performing arts companies, and performing arts professionals. The data is quite naturally related to the data about cultural venues (such as theatres, opera houses, or open-air stages) and to the data about cultural events (such as theatre or dance festivals, competitions, etc.). These data are the object of separate, but complementary WikiProjects.
This WikiProject covers all genres of the performing arts (including theatre, dance, cabaret, and music performances) and is intended to eventually supersede the WikiProject Theatre that preceded it, but is slightly narrower in scope. It also covers the artefacts that are typically collected by heritage institutions in relation to performing arts productions, documenting their conception, their realization, and their reception to the extent that the modelling of these artefacts is not already covered by other WikiProjects.
The project more specifically serves to coordinate the following activities:
- the creation of an inventory of all existing public databases that contain data about performing arts productions, literary and artistic works related to the performing arts, as well as organizations and people active in the field of performing arts;
- the implementation and maintenance of ontologies and multilingual thesauri relating to the performing arts;
- the documentation of recommended properties, recommended values and usage instructions for Wikidata performing arts items;
- the ingestion of data about performing arts productions into Wikidata;
- the enhancement and completion of such data;
- the use of the data to create maintenance lists on Wikipedia;
- the inclusion of the data into Wikipedia and its sister projects, such as in infoboxes or lists.
Background
editThis project has been launched in 2017 as a side product of a project by the Swiss Theatre Collection and the Swiss Dance Archive (now merged into SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts) in cooperation with the Bern University of Applied Sciences. The two organizations were preparing for the acquisition of a new database solution. As part of that work, a data model was developed that allowed to describe the data of the two institutions, and some of the data was test-migrated to linked data, making it available through a SPARQL endpoint. In parallel, a student at the Bern University of Applied Sciences explored ways to ingest parts of the data also into Wikidata.
This WikiProject was enhanced and translated to French in 2020 as part of a project grant entitled Modelling and Populating Performing Arts Data in Wikidata. It has since been maintained by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts (CAPACOA), with support from LaCogency and the LODEPA community.
Ways to Contribute
editThere are several ways you can contribute to the project:
- List databases containing data about performing arts productions, literary and artistic works related to the performing arts, performing arts companies, and performing arts professionals on the Data Sources page. In case the databases are not publicly accessible, contact the data holder in order to encourage them to release the data to the public (under a CC-0 Waiver or equivalent).
- Create Wikidata items for the databases about performing arts productions, literary and artistic works related to the performing arts, performing arts companies, and performing arts professionals (= data sources for the data ingestion)
- Clean existing Wikidata items so that they conform to the data modelling guidelines laid out in the Data Structure section.
- Help improving the ontologies and multilingual thesauri (see Data Structure section) needed for the ingestion and proper representation of the data.
- Ingest existing databases containing data about performing arts productions, literary and artistic works related to the performing arts, performing arts companies and performing arts professionals into Wikidata.
- Tidy up the data after batch ingestion.
- Help improving the quality and completeness of the data.
- Add links to related projects on Wikipedia; draw their contributors' attention to this project page.
- Develop and implement use cases for the data (e.g. by creating maintenance lists for Wikipedia, by including the data in infoboxes or lists on Wikipedia, etc.).
- Help writing step-by-step guidelines for the various tasks.
To participate in the WikiProject's quarterly meetups, please contact the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts at: wikidata@capacoa.ca.
Case Reports, Presentations, Blog Posts
edit- Ingesting Data about Professional Theatre Troupes in Switzerland, Affom, May 2017
- Modelling and Ingesting Performing Arts Related Data into Wikidata, Beat Estermann, August 2017 (Wikimania presentation)
- Presentation of the Data Model developed for the Swiss Performing Arts Platform, Beat Estermann, 16 January 2018 (Meeting of the Archival Working Group of the German Society for Theatre Research, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Presentation of the Performing Arts Project on Wikidata, Beat Estermann, 6 January 2018 (Meeting of the Archival Working Group of the German Society for Theatre Research, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Ingesting Production Databases of the Performing Arts, Julia Beck, Beat Estermann, Birk Weiberg, 30 June 2018.
- Building an International Knowledge Base for the Performing Arts: Thoughts on Providing Knowledge as a Service and Enhancing Knowledge Equity, Beat Estermann, 21 July 2018 (Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa).
- Wikidata & Performing Arts, Beat Estermann, 9 November 2018 ("Theater und Technik", GTW Kongress, Düsseldorf, Germany).
- Workshop - Internationale Knowledge Base für die darstellenden Künste auf der Grundlage von Wikidata: Voraussetzungen, Anwendungsszenarien und Anforderungen aus Sicht der Forschenden und der Theaterarchive, Beat Estermann, 10 November 2018 ("Theater und Technik", GTW Kongress, Düsseldorf, Germany).
- Building a Linked Open Data Ecosystem for the Performing Arts, Beat Estermann, 23 August 2019.
- What on Earth is a Knowledge Graph? (and related relevant questions), Frédéric Julien, 12 September 2019 (French version).
- Interlinking datasets to build better listings, Gregory Saumier-Finch, 3 April 2020 (French version)
- Collaborative mindsets: a prerequisite to common data models, Frédéric Julien, 8 May 2020 (French version)
- The Wikidata project for the performing arts is on!, Joana Neto Costa and Véronique Marino, 22 June 2020 (French version)
- Wikidata and the Linked Open Data Ecosystem for the Performing Arts, Frédéric Julien and Véronique Marino, 30 October 2021 (WikidataCon 2021).
Research Reports
edit- Petri, I., Julien, F. (2017). Digitizing the Performing Arts. An Assessment of Opportunities, Issues and Challenges. Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA) and Strategic Moves.
- Observatoire de la culture et des communications du Québec (2017). État des lieux sur les métadonnées relatives aux contenus culturels. Gouvernement du Québec, Institut de la statistique du Québec.
- Estermann, B., Julien, F. (2019). A Linked Digital Future for the Performing Arts. Leveraging Synergies along the Value Chain. Canadian Arts Presenting Association in collaboration with Bern University of Applied Sciences. (French version).
- Ashelford, R., Piper, L., Proctor, B., Reinikainen, E., Richards, A. (2019). Could Open Data Help Arts and Culture Listings? A discovery report. Nesta and Satori Lab.
- Wylie, M., Sculthorp, M, Gagnon-Turcotte, S., and Chatwin, M. (2021). A promising path to developing data governance in the performing arts sector: Exploring charters and principles for data governance. Open North and Canadian Association for the Performing Arts (CAPACOA).
Learning Resources
edit- Wikidata Media Library: video tutorials and presentations from CAPACOA's Linked Digital Future Initiative.
- Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, Part 1 and Part 2.
Participants
editYou can add yourself here.
The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:{{Ping project|Performing arts}}
- Beat Estermann
- Affom
- Vladimir Alexiev
- Birk Weiberg
- Smallison
- Daniel Mietchen
- Buccalon
- Jneubert
- Klaus Illmayer
- Katikei
- GiFontenelle
- Antoine2711
- Fjjulien
- Youyouca
- Vero Marino
- Celloheidi
- Beireke1
- Anju A Singh
- msoderi
- VisbyStar
- Gregory Saumier-Finch
- Rhudson
- DrThneed
- Pakoire
- Gabriel De Santis-Caron
- Raffaela Siniscalchi
- Aishik Rehman
- YaniePorlier
- SAPA bdc
- Joalpe
- bridgetannmac
- Nehaoua
- dlh28
- LiseHatt
- Zblace
- Bianca de Waal
- MichifDorian
- Tuestor
Organizations associated with this WikiProject
editRelated WikiProjects
editRelated Projects on Wikidata
edit- WikiProject Cultural events
- WikiProject Cultural venues
- WikiProject Music
- WikiProject Theatre (eventually to be merged into the present project)
- Arthur Freedman Collection Project
Related Projects on Wikipedia
editSee also
edit- Linked Digital Future for the Performing Arts - Leveraging Synergies along the Value Chain (Canadian Arts Presenting Association) – Research Report in English / French.
- LibCrowds: "Doing more with playbills data"
- Project: Modelling and Populating Performing Arts Data in Wikidata (supported by a WMF Grant in 2020)
- Project: Artsdata.ca - A national knowledge graph for the arts
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