Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts

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By now Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings is much bigger in participants and content and activity has shifted from here to there. For the visual arts field, it hosts most the of maintenance and import work among other things. Here most of the ontological considerations take place, though.

The ontology or modelling guidelines for works of visual art, creators, organizations and more can be found at Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structure. The page is somewhat chaotic, sorry!

Goals

• Centralize discussions about best practices, notability rules, GLAM partnerships, import tools
• Map templates in Template:Infobox artwork (Q6064255), especially Commons:Template:Artwork onto Wikidata properties

Some interesting resources

• CDWA (cf. Categories for the Description of Works of Art (Q5051819))
• CCO (cf. w:Visual Resources Association#Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO))
  • CCO is a content standard, i.e. it describes how a work of art should be described, regardless of specific metadata schema or ontology. Its most valuable resource are the host of excellent examples that are included. Got it as single PDF if you want it --Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 10:06, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
• Getty training:
  • Introduction and Application of Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) and Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) (PDF, 9.7 MB, 157pp)
  • Subject Access to Art Works: Using CCO, CDWA, and Vocabularies (PDF, 5.4 MB, 73pp)
  • In-Depth Look at Applying CCO and CDWA for Manuscripts, Prints, Drawings, and Rare Books (PDF, 7.6 MB, 120pp)
  • Cataloging for the Museum: CCO, CDWA, and CDWA Lite for Cataloging Museum Objects (PDF, 5.3 MB, 78pp)
• CIDOC CRM (Chinese, German and Greek translations; cf. CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (Q624005))
• AAT (cf. Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Q611299))

Find more: Metadata Standards on cco.vrafoundation.org, Metadata Standards Crosswalk on getty.edu

Tasks

See Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings#To-do list etc. on that WikiProject!

Wikimedia Commons: There are some quite boring matching tasks which have to be done. Any help is welcome, e.g.:

• Work on c:Category:Creator template maintenance, c:Category:Institution template maintenance, c:Category:Artwork template maintenance

Participants

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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|Visual arts}}

• User:Zolo
  
• Jane023 (talk) 08:50, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
  
• User:Vincent Steenberg
  
• User:Kippelboy
  
• User:Shonagon
  
• Marsupium (talk) 13:46, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
  
• GautierPoupeau (talk) 16:55, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
  
• Multichill (talk) 19:13, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
  
• Susannaanas (talk) 11:32, 12 August 2014 (UTC) I want to synchronize the handling of maps with this initiative
  
• Mushroom (talk) 00:10, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
  
• Jheald (talk) 17:09, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
  
• Spinster (talk) 15:16, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
  
• PKM (talk) 21:16, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
  
• Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 17:12, 7 January 2015‎ (UTC)
  
• Sic19 (talk) 21:12, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
  
• Wittylama (talk) 13:13, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
  
• Armineaghayan (talk) 08:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
  
• Musedata102 (talk) 20:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
• Hannolans (talk) 18:36, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
  
• User:Martingggg
  
• Zeroth (talk) 02:21, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
  
• User:7samurais
  
• User:mrtngrsbch
  
• User:Buccalon
  
• Infopetal (talk) 17:54, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
  
• Karinanw (talk) 16:38, 24 March 2020‎ (UTC)
  
• Ahc84 (talk) 17:38, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
  
• User:BeatrixBelibaste
  
• Valeriummaximum
  
• Bitofdust (talk) 22:52, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
  
• Mathieu Kappler
  
• Zblace (talk) 07:22, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
  
• Oursana (talk) 13:16, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
  
• Ham II (talk) 08:30, 25 January 2024 (UTC)