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.
Entries by Frédéric Julien
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.
Collaborative mindsets: a prerequisite to common data models
As we wrap up a busy first phase of the Linked Digital Future initiative, we’d like to share a few successes and lessons learned with the performing arts community.
The COVID-19 crisis: A case for unique identifiers and common data models
Better surveying in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, could involve four things…
Request for Proposals — Governance for Shared Data and Open Data in the Performing Arts
CAPACOA seeks service providers to undertake exploratory activities for the development of a governance framework for open and shared data in the performing arts as part of the Linked Digital […]
A few simple statements about performing arts buildings in Wikidata
Wikidata is a free knowledge base that everyone can edit. Any peforming arts industry data can be published and maintained directly in Wikidata, rather than being individually maintained in several distinct databases.
How can arts listings be better?
“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:
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