The focus of Samie Konet’s 2023-2024 Pratt-MoMA Linked Open Data Fellowship project focused specifically on identifying and modeling the relationships between traveling exhibitions originating out of MoMA’s exhibition programming.
Konet drafted a model expressing what parent-child relationships as Wikidata entries could potentially look like, establishing a parent record to record all locations an exhibition traveled with individual (child) records designated for each location separately. Using a unique example of a Robert Rauschenberg retrospective, which was shown in three different locations each with a unique title, Konet modeled how this relationship could be interconnected.
The data modeling workflow was presented to the LD4 Art & Design Affinity Group on January 24, 2024 with continued discussion around the subject of traveling exhibition modeling during the meetings of February 28 and May 2, 2024. Annotated notes for each meeting can be accessed here. The result of the LD4 group meetings led to the establishment of the Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structure/Art exhibitions/Traveling exhibitions page, which will populate with related traveling exhibition Wikidata entries over time as the group continues to work towards a standard method of documentation.
Image Credit: Robert Rauschenberg. Mirthday Man (Anagram [A Pun]), 1997. Water-soluble inkjet dye and pigment transfer on polylaminate. Courtesy the Faurschou Foundation
