I have been trying out various options on the Art Spore pages over
recent weeks and summarised these on the Talk:Art Spore page.
My understanding/facility with Wikidata/SPARQL can be woefully crude so
I wouldn't be holding it up as some kind of shining example. However I
thought it could be worth posting this message to the broader community,
with the hope that (a) these approaches may be useful in other Spores,
and (b) others can point us all to better data handling/presentation
approaches.
Notes from [
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Art_Spore]:
In trying to explore what can be distinct from Wikipedia content, I have
created several pages to explore how Wikidata may be integrated to
enable a user to explore in different ways:
* Geographical: The textual page can summarise a particular type of
art resource and show these on a world map. The user can explore those
resources on a zoomable map to the locale of their choice. See
[
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Art:Artist-run_spaces] for an example.
* Timeline: The textual page can summarise a particular art phenomenon
and show a summary diagram. The user can then explore a more detailed
view of instances and their emergence dates.
[
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Art:Art_society] is an example.
* Affinity links: The textual page can summarise a particular art
project, the events it has organised and the artists who were associated
with these, along with a summary diagram. The user can then explore a
more dynamic view of these.
[
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Art:Richard_Demarco_Gallery]
provides an example.
Each of these can perhaps go beyond what can be said in a Wikipedia
article. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. These are all
consuming Wikidata and presenting it in what seems the most achievable
way: summarising query results in a PNG snapshot and linking to a SPARQL
query by which a user can explore further linked items.
Each of the examples is far from ideal. The available Wikidata is often
short of instances (for example, when many art projects would fail to
demonstrate notability for a Wikipedia page in their own right) and some
of the properties are inconsistent (for example, Q12160242 art society
and Q1797187 artist society, or just Q18560545 periodical exhibition for
some which are missing from the Timeline view). However, I hope this
selection of pages can show the potential for a new set of explorable
resources and provide impetus for extending and making consistent these
Wikidata properties.
