DATASET MOMA Provenance Research Project (PRP) artworks

Dataset name: Enhanced MoMA PRP

Description: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from  information available on the public internet site of the Museum of Modern Art MoMA. It merges the list of artworks on the MoMa Provenance Research Project page with provenance texts published on the MoMA's detailed item pages. It is intended to facilitate research into Holocaust-era provenance for scholars, art historians and families. 



Original data sources that were merged to create new dataset:

• Moma.org Provenance Research Project (PRP)
• Provenance texts for each artwork on MoMa.org based on the url in the MoMA PRP Excel file 

Format: Google Sheet

URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR2Xl_gm3I8l0uHhxklJW4aZNYwEV5reEa-7JbKdIk93Li0iqtm1OkWBUY_6KkCE3dOwiKFwtnds_jx/pubhtml

Download: CSV


Contents:
1. PRP Artworks with provenance 
(Artist,Title,Date,Medium,Dimensions,URL,Acc_Number,Department,Provenance,Publisher of Provenance,Author of Provenance)
2. About this file
3. Artists Count (pivot table with number of artworks by artists)
4. Department (pivot table with number of artworks by department)
5. Provenance text contains word "private" (pivot table with filter)
6. Provenance text contains name "Valentin" (pivot table with filter)
7. Provenance text contains the word "probably" (pivot table with filter)

Publisher: OAD

Date of Publication: October 31, 2019

Example of content: Provenance text contains word "private"

Selection of artworks listed on the MoMA Provenance Research Project that contain the word "private" in the provenance text published on the museum website 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR2Xl_gm3I8l0uHhxklJW4aZNYwEV5reEa-7JbKdIk93Li0iqtm1OkWBUY_6KkCE3dOwiKFwtnds_jx/pubhtml

Art Dealers and Art Historians: Authorities Identifiers by the Numbers

Linked Open Data queries need authoritative identifiers to work across platforms.

QUESTION: Which are the most used identifiers for art dealers, art historians, art dealers and art collectors who exist in Wikidata?

Below are Wikidata Sparql Queries that show the authorities that are most used for referencing art dealers and art historians in Wikidata.

(VIAF wins hands down.) 

ART DEALERS : VIAF, LCCN, RKD...




ART HISTORIANS





ART COLLECTORS











Wikidata Query for Most Used Identifiers for Art Dealers

SELECT ?propertyLabel ?propertyDescription ?count WHERE {
{
SELECT ?propertyclaim (COUNT(*) AS ?count) WHERE {
?item wdt:P106 wd:Q173950.
?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5.
?item ?propertyclaim _:b2.
}
GROUP BY ?propertyclaim
}
?property wikibase:propertyType wikibase:ExternalId.
?property wdt:P31 wd:Q19595382.
?property wikibase:claim ?propertyclaim.
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?count)
LIMIT 100