Mapping Self-Organization in the Arts/History

The research project "OffOffOf. Swiss Cultural Policy and Self-Organization in the Arts since 1980" (SNF 2014 - 2019) produced a database on self-organised art initiatives in Switzerland. The database contains archival material and photographs of self-organised art initiatives as well as documents from policy makers. A selection of the database is publicly accessible via an online mapping that allows for temporal and geographical visualisation of the information. The materials from self-organised art initiatives are mainly from private archives and the documents from policy makers are publicly available. The documentation has also been published in a monographic publication.

Website with the database https://selbstorganisation-in-der-kunst.ch/
Publication in open access https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/unabhaengig-prekaer-professionell-7363

Publication pdf: file:///Users/kpmuelle/Downloads/978-3-0358-0548-2-book_8634.pdf-4.pdf

Case study of the project Open Science for arts, design and music

In the frame of the project "Open Science for arts design and music" a case study was created around this research project addressing issues about how to improve the permanent archiving and reuse of its documentation.

Self-organized Art Initiatives in Switzerland at the GLAMHack Luzern 2024

Team at the GLAMHack 2024

The documentation of the research project was at the centre of the challenge "Self-organized Art Initiatives in Switzerland" presented and implemented during the GLAMHack Luzern 2024, the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon (6-7 November 2024): https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/222. The challenge allowed to address the problems/questions identified by the case study and implemente a series of solutions. Worked on the challenge Birk Weiberg (created the challenge, uploaded data on GitHub, edited the data, made the uploads on Wikidata), Pablo Miller (co-directed the research project, provided background about the project, provided authorisations, provided data in collaboration with the web administrator, created to Zenodo community), Iolanda Pensa (made the Data Management Plan and the documentation of the case study, contributed to the clearing of the licenses, the analysis of the data, and the open strategy) and Omar Abdesslem (contributined to editing the data, visualization and uploading them on Wikidata) and with the contribution of Rita Gautschy (reviewed the data management plan and the documentation).

The challenge on the website of the GLAMHack

Before the GLAMHack

Creating the challenge on the GLAMHack 2024 website https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/222
Exporting data from the website https://selbstorganisation-in-der-kunst.ch/
Upload of the data on GitHub https://github.com/birk/swiss-art-initiatives
Clearing of licenses https://github.com/birk/swiss-art-initiatives/blob/main/README.md

During the GLAMHack

Results of the GLAMHack

Analyse data produced and collected by the research project by creating a DMP Data Management Plan.
Creating a notepad for the event to coordinate the work https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/artinitiatives.
Clarify copyright status and documents and possible steps to clarify copyright and requesting authorisations.
Identify possible actions to improve permanent archiving and reuse and to identify steps to make the most relevant content more accessible.

Dataset on Wikidata

Reviewing the available data.
Identifying the Wikidata Items to be used.
Structuring the data and prepare them for the upload on Wikidata using OpenRefine.
Uploaded data and information about the Wikidata upload.
Producing a series of simple visualisations with the data.

Possible next steps after the GLAMHack

Email to the practitioners promoting and managing artists initiatives to invite them to update the item related to their institution on Wikidata and upload some images of their spaces and artworks on Wikimedia Commons (general view of the spaces and only artworks of the uploader)
Training to explain how to edit Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (online presentation and/or workshop at the School of art and design in Luzern)
Data about art spaces can be uploaded or checked also on OpenStreetMap and connected the the item on Wikidata
The dataset can be made available also to other databases/websites/portals presenting information related to independent art spaces in Europe or around the world to integrate data related to Switzerland
The Wikidata item related to the art initiatives can be included in the website of the research project