(presented by Julie Allinson) OpenArt is based on the University of York, working in partnership with the Tate and Acuity Unlimited.

Taking ‘The London Art World 1660-1735’ – an AHRC funded project which has currently produced data in a series of inter-linked spreadsheet – about people, places and sales (or art works) – and also about the art works (where they are currently – expect mainly in Tate Britain) and the source of the information of the sales etc. (bibliographic information)

Can see rich set of inter-relationships – e.g. even between people can have relations like ‘was patron of’ – see all artists with same patronage etc.

Data will be made available via Fedora – will be normalising formats and vocabs. Probably be released in some flavour of RDF. OpenArt will focus on data, but already funding in place to produce ‘end user’ focussed interfaces – which will follow on from OpenArt project.

Example use cases:
Answering research questions lie ‘how many paintings were imported annually into England during this period’
Looking at where art works are now

For institution hope to gain a mechanism for releasing open data

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