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Project Overview for Rest of Semester and Spring
I am aiming to have a data model for the Whitney ready and approved by the first week of December.
Once the data model is established, I will query for name authority records for Provenance-related constituents.
As far as where to find authority files for obscure early 20th century dealers and collectors, as I found researching back in September, VIAF seems to have the most consistent results.
Worldcat’s experimental Linked Data also has some great relationship content for records related to some of these constituents, though the type of the relationship is not necessarily well-defined: http://www.worldcat.org/title/ferargil-galleries-records-circa-1900-1963/oclc/888072546
Getting data out of TMS’ free-text Provenance field:
Can use Python string matching to look for dates.
Each provenance note in TMS is separated by a semicolon, making it easy to use Python to sort these notes into distinct events.
The Carnegie Museum just puts their TMS Provenance info into a CIDOC “P3_has_note” field, but it seems like they could easily extract more useful info from these.
I could use either Python or MySQL to create updated JSON-LD URI files. I’m not sure which method is easier at this point, but will have a better sense after doing more work in my Programming for Cultural Heritage/Database Design classes. MySQL might make sense since SPARQL is SQL-like?
All of these JSON-LD files can then be combined into an N-Triple file (the format used for Linked Jazz’s data), and put into a triple store on the Whitney’s server (which would solve the PHP redirection issue Joshua was having).
After everything is online, if there is sufficient time left in the Spring semester, I would use the Whitney’s URIs as the basis of some kind of visualization project to demonstrate how they can be used by the public.
Specifically, it might be good to connect the Whitney’s linked data with another museum’s, the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery being the obvious example.
The Smithsonian’s artist URIs (http://edan.si.edu/saam/id/person-institution/176) could even be linked to in ours.
