October 2019 - LDFI

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A few simple statements about performing arts buildings in Wikidata

Digital Literacy, Events and Workshops, Research

New entrance and facade of Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Everyone knows Wikipedia, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia. However, not everyone is familiar yet with its sister project, Wikidata.

October 24, 2019/0 Comments/by Frédéric Julien

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How can arts listings be better?

Could Open Data Help Arts and Culture Listings? - snapshot from the blog post accompanying the report release

“Arts and culture listings are broken. Can open data help to make them better?” wondered Wales researchers from Nesta and The Satori Lab. In their recent discovery report, they concluded:

October 16, 2019/0 Comments/by Frédéric Julien

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A few lessons learned on digital transformation in the arts

Digital Literacy, Events and Workshops

We are half-way through the first full year of the Linked Digital Future initiative. Much has been accomplished already. And much has been learned.

In a spirit of openness and collaboration, we would like to share our complete Mid-Year Progress Report with the arts sector. The report offers an overview of what we’ve done and what we are currently up to. The report also includes several lessons learned, two of which I would like to share in this post.

October 8, 2019/1 Comment/by Frédéric Julien