About the Linked Digital Future Initiative

The Linked Digital Future initiative seeks to enhance the discoverability of the performing arts. Our goal is to help the sector leverage the potential of linked data technologies and to foster collaboration along the performing arts value chain. There are five areas of focus.

Research

Governance

Prototyping and Development

Data Literacy

Community engagement

Imagine a linked open data future for the arts.

Important Advancements of the Web of Data

Some call it a semantic web, others refer to it as the web of data. But what matters is what it can do for the performing arts: enhancing digital discoverability and fostering data reuse across the value chain.

1994
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
One thing, one unique identifier: a simple way to avoid confusion or ambiguity across the web.
2004
Resource Description Framework
A new way to describe things and their relationship to other things over the web. The formula: subject – predicate (verb) – object.
2012
Wikidata
A free and open knowledge base for all things in the world.
Present
A sector-owned knowledge graph
A place to identify, describe and interlink the things that are so unique and wonderful about the performing arts: Artsdata.ca

Our Partners

CAPACOA

Culture Creates

Bern University of Applied Sciences

LaCogency

OpenNorth

Mass Culture

Conseil québécois du théâtre

Association RIDEAU

Synapse C

Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance

Regroupement québécois de la danse

BC Alliance for the Arts

Crow’s Theatre

National Arts Centre

dia-log

Atlantic Presenters Association

Digital Arts Nation

ArtsBoost

Our Team

All 28 /Advisory Committee 6 /Coaches 0 /Community Engagement 2 /Digital Navigators 0 /Indigenous Knowledge 3 /Partners 4 /Past Members 12 /Researchers 3 /Wikidata Project 14

About the Linked Digital Future Initiative

The Linked Digital Future initiative seeks to enhance the discoverability of the performing arts. Our goal is to help the sector leverage the potential of linked data technologies and to foster collaboration along the performing arts value chain. There are five areas of focus.

Imagine a linked open data future for the arts.

Important Advancements of the Web of Data

Our Partners

CAPACOA

Culture Creates

Bern University of Applied Sciences

LaCogency

OpenNorth

Mass Culture

Conseil québécois du théâtre

Association RIDEAU

Synapse C

Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance

Regroupement québécois de la danse

BC Alliance for the Arts

Crow’s Theatre

National Arts Centre

dia-log

Atlantic Presenters Association

Digital Arts Nation

ArtsBoost

Our Team

Frédéric Julien

Brit Johnston

Kathleen Smith

Jean-Robert Bisaillon

Beat Estermann

Raffaela Siniscalchi

Rebecca Ford

Marie-Pier Pilote

Véronique Marino

Anju Singh

Margaret Lam

Clément Laberge

Bridget MacIntosh

Joana Neto Costa

Simon Villeneuve

Tammy Lee

Joyce Wan

Megan Wylie

Jenny Fewster

Jai Djwa

Gregory Saumier-Finch

Akoulina Connell

Bart Magnus

Antoine Beaubien

Denise Bolduc

Annelise Larson

Dessa Hayes

Mariel Marshall

Our Generous Funders

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