The LIVE Directory: At the Crossroads of Performing Arts and Open Data
CAPACOA is thrilled to announce the launch of the LIVE Performing Arts Directory, the first of its kind entirely powered by open data.
Entries by Frédéric Julien
Decentralization Must Go On
To cross-check information across websites, search engines must first identify the entities being described on web pages. This requires that each entity be assigned an identifier.
Wikidata award for the performing arts
The Wikidata Project Performing arts won the Ecosystem Award at WikidataCon 2021.
Schema Structured Data for Performing Arts Events
Structured data markups help search engines better understand the contents of web pages. They can also be scraped and reused.
Exploring charters and principles for data governance in the performing arts
The real question isn’t so much who can share data with whom, but rather why. The value of data sharing is not well understood within the performing arts sector.
A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
For Indigenous artists wanting to affirm their identities in the digital space, how things are named matters a great deal.
A Linked Digital Future: The Vision Takes Shape
There could be as many as 75,000 performing arts events in Canada per year. That’s a lot of information to codify into data and to load into Artsdata. AI-powered tools can do the bulk of the work. Yet we need other data provision strategies to achieve data exhaustiveness and quality.
The Art of Data Sharing Webinar – Recording Now Available!
Open North partnered with CAPACOA, a performing arts service organization, to explore the use of a data charter to improve data collaboration in the Canadian performing arts sector. As part of this research, the two organizations held a webinar, The art of data sharing, to learn about how Apidae Tourisme, The Audience Agency, and la BTLF developed successful data collaboration initiatives!
Call For Participation: Indigenous Arts And Culture Practitioners
“How could the works of Indigenous arts and culture practitioners be more readily findable to people looking for them over the Web?” We invite you to gather with us in a consultative process about the presence of Indigenous arts and culture practitioners in the Web of data.
Digital Transformation Amidst A Pandemic
With a performing arts sector entirely shut down, there were suddenly no live performances requiring digital discoverability. However, the fundamental needs that the LDFI had sought to address were still present. And new needs emerged.
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