- Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
- Edited by Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Developing a Creative Model for Wikidata Analysis in the GLAM Sector
- Enrique Tabone
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.33
In 2019 the author started exploring the visualization of datasets from Wikidata for artistic practice. Initially, analysing gender representation in collections led to the development of an inquiring model for art or museum collections. Later, a similar approach was adopted on prehistoric female figurines in Malta and Gozo. This brought towards a coherent conclusion: structured datasets are visualized, sonified, and accompanied by her creation of art objects. Reflections on data representations in art collections and museums have provided opportunities to explore ways to look into a collection rather than at a collection. This data science point of view aims to enable the discovery of relationships between items within the dataset while stitching them together through shared properties, in creative ways.
- Keywords:
- Wikidata,
- data art,
- data sonification,
- data visualisation,
- GLAM,
University of Salford, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0009-0004-9584-7497
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Developing a Creative Model for Wikidata Analysis in the GLAM Sector
Authors
Enrique Tabone
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.33
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
Book Subtitle
Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 5-6 giugno 2025 / Conference proceedings, Florence, 5-6 June 2025
Editors
Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
378
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1009-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1010-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919