Wikidata:Property proposal/artist-info artist ID
artist-info artist ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
| Description | Identifier in the artist-info artist database of exhibition records |
|---|---|
| Represents | artist-info (Q55344434) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | human (Q5) |
| Allowed values | [0-9]\d+ |
| Allowed units | no units |
| Example 1 | Richard Serra (Q321245) → 31766 |
| Example 2 | Otto Dix (Q153104) → 8201 |
| Example 3 | Marina Abramović (Q47496) → 73 |
| Source | https://www.artist-info.com |
| Planned use | Adding artist-info artist Id to artist Statements |
| Number of IDs in source | 182800 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete |
| Formatter URL | https://www.artist-info.com/users/artsitpublicpage/$1 |
| Robot and gadget jobs | No bots or gadgets |
| See also | RKDartists ID (P650), Union List of Artist Names ID (P245), Artnet artist ID (P3782), artist-info curator ID (P5488) |
Motivation
This new Wikidata property for Wikidata property for authority control for people (Q19595382) would allow a better coverage of arts (Q2018526).
Identifying artists, curators and exhibition places ('location') through exhibition records has the quality of a reliable authority control.
As exhibitions are fundamental to the discourse in Modern and Contemporary Art, making them searchable with artist-info.com enables new possibilities for research and analytics.
It is different to authority control for people based on auction, library, dictionary (e.g. ThiemeBecker, Bénézit, Oxford) or artwork collection records (museums).
We are documenting with artist-info.com solo- and group-exhibitions at exhibition venues (galleries, museums, non-profit) with all participating artists and if possible with the curator from 1880 up to the present, worldwide.
Our sources are exhibition catalogs, archives, and ephemera. The interactive exhibition histories of artist-info show the relational structure and profiles of artists, curators and exhibition venues alike.
We include links to Wikipedia pages of artists, curators and locations on the related artist-info pages (10.431 as of July 8, 2018) for more biographical information as well as an authority control link to VIAF (includes Wikidata) and WorldCat (VIAF or LCCN based) for library holding information (14.108 as of July 8, 2018).
We publish our groundbreaking research based on exhibition records on www.artist-info.com/blog/
The database was started 1993 and first published on the Internet in November 1996. You find as of July 8, 2018: 182.800 artists, 7.504 curators, 12.285 venues in 1.500 cities in 163 countries, 212.501 exhibitions (680.844 edges).
Access to all artist-info.com artist, curator and exhbition venue pages is free (no registration, no charges).
THHAP (talk) 10:07, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
Support David (talk) 15:07, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Comment @THHAP: could you change your examples so that they point to the corresponding Wikidata items? See Wikidata:Property_proposal/A_Church_Near_You_church_ID for an example of how they should be formatted. − Pintoch (talk) 07:44, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Pintoch: Thank you for your advice. Example 1, 2, 3 is corrected. THHAP (talk) 12:12, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, THHAP, Pintoch: 
Done: artist-info artist ID (P5489). − Pintoch (talk) 09:01, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Pintoch: My outmost gratitude that this was possible!
Example: We added artist-info artist ID to Edvard Munch (Q41406).
In libraries you find his exhibition catalogs in case he was the only artist shown. If it was a group-exhibition, library catalog entries wouldn't list all participating artists (sometimes several 100), so you never would find Edvard Munch, and in the catalogs texts on him, research results, artwork. As of today we documented 115 solo- and 128 group-exhibitions, Sep 1885 > May 2017.
As we document the group-exhibitions with all participating artists from 1880 > present you find with artist-info Edvard Munch in these group-exhibitions. This is such an important help for all art-world researchers, as we know from feedback from all over the world. THHAP (talk) 16:40, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Pintoch: My outmost gratitude that this was possible!