JJKB Project Directors

Curatorial Research: Barbara Clausen, Curator and Professor, Département d’histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Montréal

Technology Research: Deena Engel, Clinical Professor Emerita, Department of Computer Science, New York University

Academic Research: Glenn Wharton, Professor, Art History and Conservation of Material Culture; Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials, University of California, Los Angeles

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Assistant Directors

Curatorial Research: Kristin Poor, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

Linked Data Research: Lozana Rossenova, Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover

Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata

Project Goals

1. To build a narrative that captures our art historical, curatorial and conservation research.
2. To build out a dataset that captures our art historical, curatorial and conservation research.
3. To share our resource.
4. To document our approach.
5. To ensure long-term preservation of this resource.

Systems Goals and Decisions

1. Software: Open source
2. CMS (Content Management System): WordPress
3. Data format: Linked Open Data (LOD)
4. Data storage: Wikidata
5. Data uploads: OpenRefine
6. Data queries: SPARQL

The WordPress Portal

Wikidata

Data collection & cross-team coordination

Data cleaning and preparation

Thinking in triples

1. Concept simplicity
2. Splitting data into sheets ready for upload with OpenRefine
3. Using existing Wikidata properties creatively

Wikidata Properties

Excerpt:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure

WikiProject Visual arts

Wikidata Properties

Excerpt:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Digital_and_Performative_Arts/Provenancial_Data

WikiProject Digital & Performative Arts/Provenancial Data

The Data Model

This is a diagrammatic representation of all the data types and relations in the JJKB, which were uploaded to Wikidata.

https://artistarchives.hosting.nyu.edu/JoanJonas/data-model-map/

Testing the limits of WD data model

• How to bind a small dataset amidst the vastness of Wikidata?
• Solution: adding statement “described by source: JJKB” to all new items, but this is not ideal in some cases (e.g. for some artists and exhibitions that span beyond the boundary of the JJKB)
• Some property constraints in Wikidata fail when put to the test against non-conventional art.
• Solution: Temporary workarounds for now. Long-term solutions could include expanding how constrainst work within specific knowledge domains, and integrating new data types such as EDTF.

Wikidata and SPARQL queries

Linked Open Data Chapter

Data Visualization

Data Visualization – Example 1

Data Visualization – Example 2

Data Visualization – Example 3

Collaboration on queries+data viz

Working with Cultural Heritage Data

Linked Open Data Chapter Tutorials