Welcome to the ARLIS/NA 2021 Wikidata Workshop. Everything you need will be listed below. If ever you have a question, please don't hesitate to reach out to Will, Karly, or Megan.
The Workshop Dashboard: What is it? How do I join it? Where is it?
The Dashboard is a course/workshop/edit-a-thon management platform. It works with both Wikipedia and Wikidata. It neatly tracks edits for the duration of a workshop or program. It also can contain trainings, resources, and tips. It is customizable and presents data that may be otherwise difficult to find
We will share a link with you at the start of the workshop to allow you to join
These are some useful case studies to demonstrate Wikidata in action. Some of these are completed (CMA) and others are works in progress (many institutions contained within the Sum of All Paintings). You can feel free to use these examples as templates for your institution
Sum of all paintings - A project to represent all paintings on Wikidata. This is a sprawling project, split up into pages about artists, paintings, collections, and the museums that house them. There are maintenance pages that show gaps and dynamic tables that show progress in filling these gaps
Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) - A project to move 30,000 records from the CMA catalog onto Wikidata. This link contains data visualizations, workflows, a list of participants and more
Wikidata calls predicates properties. Properties are relationships that describe the connection between items (subjects) and their values (objects). Listed be low are some commonly used properties for describing artworks and artists.
For this workshop, the following table contains a set of museum, art IDs as well as artist IDs. You can click the list links in the table below to see a relevant list of works located in these museums. From there you can click on the IDs to see the corresponding art or artist pages at that museum. A little lower on the page are a common list of properties the Wikidata community uses to describe art and artists. We can fill in these blanks by sourcing them from the museum's pages and adding the missing statement to the art or artist item pages.
place of birth (P19): most specific known (e.g. city instead of country, or hospital instead of city) birth location of a person, animal or fictional character
place of death (P20): most specific known (e.g. city instead of country, or hospital instead of city) death location of a person, animal or fictional character
occupation (P106): occupation of a person; see also "field of work" (Property:P101), "position held" (Property:P39)
genre (P136): creative work's genre or an artist's field of work (P101). Use main subject (P921) to relate creative works to their topic
field of work (P101): specialization of a person or organization; see P106 for the occupation
movement (P135): literary, artistic, scientific or philosophical movement or scene associated with this person or work. For political ideologies use P1142.
part of (P361): object of which the subject is a part (if this subject is already part of object A which is a part of object B, then please only make the subject part of object A), inverse property of "has part" (P527, see also "has parts of the class" (P2670))
sex or gender (P21): sex or gender identity of human or animal. For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender, etc. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279)
ethnic group (P172): subject's ethnicity (consensus is that a VERY high standard of proof is needed for this field to be used. In general this means 1) the subject claims it themselves, or 2) it is widely agreed on by scholars, or 3) is fictional and portrayed as such)
sexual orientation (P91): the sexual orientation of the person relative to their declared gender — use ONLY IF they have stated it themselves, unambiguously, or it has been widely agreed upon by historians after their death
spouse (P26): the subject has the object as their spouse (husband, wife, partner, etc.). Use "unmarried partner" (P451) for non-married companions
unmarried partner (P451): someone with whom the person is in a relationship without being married. Use "spouse" (P26) for married couples
mother (P25): female parent of the subject. For stepmother, use "stepparent" (P3448)
father (P22): male parent of the subject. For stepfather, use "stepparent" (P3448)
sibling (P3373): the subject and the object have at least one common parent (brother, sister, etc. including half-siblings); use "relative" (P1038) for siblings-in-law (brother-in-law, sister-in-law, etc.) and step-siblings (step-brothers, step-sisters, etc.)
child (P40): subject has object as child. Do not use for stepchildren—use "relative" (P1038), qualified with "type of kinship" (P1039)
relative (P1038): family member (qualify with "kinship to subject", P1039; for direct family member please use specific property)
family (P53): family, including dynasty and nobility houses. Not family name (use P734 for family name).
Library of Congress authority ID (P244): Library of Congress name authority (persons, families, corporate bodies, events, places, works and expressions) and subject authority identifier [Format: 1-2 specific letters followed by 8-10 digits (see regex). For manifestations, use P1144]
A data model is a set of common properties we use to describe things on Wikidata. Data models are not prescriptive. Often the best way to learn how to model items is to look at existing well-modeled items. Here is a small list to get you started.
We can use these lists to see how well-represented art and artists are on Wikidata as described by specific institutions. If you're curious as to whether or not an institution has an identifier on Wikidata, take a look at these queries to find out.
