Wikidata.
Martin Poulter, UoO's Wikimedian in Residence should be able to advise, but
I'm happy to if he's unavailable.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:51 Alistair Orr, <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am looking into filling the gaps in the artist module in our CMS,
> largely to help with copyright permissions but also to help meet our
> Collections Online validation criteria.
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> My search so far led me to a MOMA CSV file on GitHub:
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> https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection/blob/master/Artists.csv
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> The main issue with this file, and also with our own records, is that it’s
> not clear whether the ‘BeginDate’ or ‘EndDate’ fields are birth and death
> dates or ‘Active’ career dates or, as I suspect, a mixture of both!
>
> The other issue is that this dataset only goes back to 19th century
> (being from MOMA), this date range should solve the copyright issues but to
> help with the online validation we’d like it to go back as far as possible.
>
> As well as the life dates, the other main fields we are interested in are:
> name, nationality, gender and role.
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> Could anyone please point me towards a reliable source for this
> information or perhaps contacts who may be willing to share?
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> Many thanks in advance,
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> *Alistair Orr*
> Technical Image Assistant, Digital Collections
> Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
> University of Oxford
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> Beaumont Street
> Oxford OX1 2PH
> www.ashmolean.org
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