Loading Ethnic Group Values in Artsdata

[GaryMan1968]

We have just successfully tested an Artsdata to iCal prototype for loading Artsdata events into a calendar on the CAPACOA test website. (Hooray!) This was one step in Artsdata's project of populating a calendar with events featuring Indigenous performers. Another step in this project was creating an unbroken subclass relationship between specific ethnic group instances and the item "Indigenous peoples in Canada" in Wikidata, so that we would be able to run queries in Artsdata like "show all events by artists with an ethnic group property that is a subclass of Indigenous peoples in Canada".

Currently, the ethnic group values from Wikidata are not loaded as additionalType for artists in Artsdata, which means that when we query for events by Indigenous people, these events do not show up, even when the unbroken subclass relationship exists in Wikidata.

How should we change this to reconcile Wikidata's vocabulary with Artsdata so that we can query events by Indigenous artists in Artsdata? Should we add "additionalType" to artist items in Artsdata?

Relatedly, (musical) bands which are considered Indigenous in Wikidata currently use the property "has characteristic" instead of ethnic group to describe their Indigeneity, since they are not instances of human, and therefore cannot be described with the property ethnic group. Could we load "has characteristic" as an additionalType for organization items in Artsdata while loading ethnic group as an additionalType for artist items?

[saumier]

@GaryMan1968 Hi. Following our bi-weekly meeting today, I modified the SPARQL to include people's ethnic group from Wikidata. This query is on your homepage when you are signed in to Artsdata.ca. Let me know what you think. Next I will load "has characteristic" as an additionalType for organization items.

Events with indigenous artists

[GaryMan1968]

@saumier Thank you so much for modifying the SPARQL to include ethnic group and has characteristic properties from Wikidata. It's exciting to see the project progressing so well!

I've looked at the query and its results on Artsdata. I noticed that there are a few events from footlight-console data feeds, but also that the majority of the events from the query are still from the Indigenous performances sheet that I put together. Is this because there just aren't very many data feeds loading events by Indigenous artists into Artsdata currently? Is the issue that we need more organizations providing us with their event data? I'm just trying to think of what would be the best way to scale up the results of the query, ideally without having to manually curate an up-to-date events feed for Indigenous performers via spreadsheet...