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Welcome to WikiProject Museum of Glass (Q2894440)! This WikiProject is a hub for improving the authority data of the Museum of Glass Visiting Artist Residency (Q137304009) as a part of our Visiting Artist Residency Digital Archive digital infrastructure updates. These updates have been generously funded by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust (Q30689078) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Q6040649).

This project is modeled on similar data projects established by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Q1192305), the Philadelphia Art Museum (Q510324) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Q160236) and aims to add glass art subject speciality and mid-sized museum representation to this type of data work.

Many thanks to the excellent Wikidata:WikiProject Smithsonian American Art Museum/SAAM Artists page for providing the foundation for our WikiProject page. We are incredibly grateful!

Project Background

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This authority project is an MLIS capstone project at the University of Washington Information School (Q7896574). It prioritizes adding new people and organizations who have participated in the Museum of Glass Visiting Artist Residency (Q137304009) to Wikidata based on information stored within MOG's collection management system The Museum System (Q107404505) and within the museum's institutional archives. It also involves enriching data for those residents who are already present in Wikidata.

Our goal is to improve the visibility of the talented glass artists who have been in residence in our Hot Stop and to improve their authority data based on the primary and secondary sources within our libraries and archives and through a recent artist demographics project. The preliminary upload of data will be achieved by uploading exported data from TMS into OpenRefine (Q5583871). OpenRefine will be used for the reconciliation and mapping of concepts to existing Wikidata entities and to add new Wikidata entities.

The first phase of this project involves updating Wikidata and proposing new records for Visiting Artists not represented in the Getty Union List of Artist Names (Q2494649).

The second phase will include mass importing additional data points generated after the launch of eMuseum (Q107400920) and the addition of new ULAN IDs.

Properties

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Minimum required properties

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Museum of Glass data contributed to Wikidata should contain the following properties.

Property Value Note
Label text string entity name
Description text string For living artists, use "[Nationality][type of artist] (b. [birth year]). For deceased artists, use "[Nationality][type of artist] (birth year–death year). e.g., Dale Chihuly, American glass artist (b. 1941) or Ginny Ruffner, American glass artist (1952-2025).
instance of (P31) human (Q5),
organization (Q43229)		 Optional for organizations: add additional subclasses, for example business (Q4830453), duo (Q10648343), or artist collective (Q1400264), to describe the organization type.
participant in (P1344) Museum of Glass Visiting Artist Residency (Q137304009) for all resident artists, including individuals, organizations, or artist collectives.
MOG Visiting Artist ID numeric text string This number is assigned by MOG. Property to be proposed by capstone students as a part of their project.

Below are the core reference types for minimum required properties.

Core reference types Value Note
reference URL (P854) URL MOG eMuseum artist page. [to be bulk added after launch]
retrieved (P813) date Date the information in the statement was retrieved from the URL or other source

Additional properties

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The following properties are not required, but should be added if they are available.

Property Value Note
Aliases text string Include all other known aliases used by the artist
date of birth (P569) date If available. Use year only for living artists. For deceased artists, use most specific date. Use circa (ca.) if an approximation. Typical references include reference URL (P854) and retrieved (P813).
place of birth (P19) Wikidata item for a location Most specific location possible.
date of death (P570) date If known. Use most specific date. Use circa (ca.) if an approximation. Typical references include reference URL (P854) and retrieved (P813).
place of death (P20) Wikidata item for a location Most specific location possible.
occupation (P106) artist (Q483501) and/or glass artist (Q2865798) human (Q5) only. Most specific categorization possible; can pull additional potential Q values.
educated at (P69) Wikidata item for a formal or informal education center Add any publicly available information with a focus on the following organizations.

For formal academic programs include qualifiers for academic degree (P512) or start time (P580) and end time (P582) if publicly available.

student of (P1066) Wikidata item for mentor Use only when one of following appears in source data.
official website (P856) URL If known. If artist has an archived website on the Wayback Machine, include here.
Instagram username (P2003) text string If known. Only include if artist has a public account.
on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) WikiProject Museum of Glass (Q137430239)

Authority properties

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The following authority properties should be added only if available for each applicable Visiting Artist.

Property Value Note
Union List of Artist Names ID (P245) Unique ID e.g., 500231677 for Fred Wilson (Q5496574). Please note: new ULAN contributions will be bulk uploaded to Wikidata using OpenRefine.
Library of Congress authority ID (P244) Unique ID e.g., n93103961 for Fred Wilson (Q5496574).
VIAF cluster ID (P214) Unique ID e.g., 25407732 for Fred Wilson (Q5496574).

Participants

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