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Mobile Subjects in Linked Open Data: Biases and Gaps in Identity and Representation
Monday October 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
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Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms investigates the circulation of artists from the decolonizing world through the colonial and artistic capitals of London and Paris. It examines and compares London and Paris as contrapuntal capitals of decolonizing empires that functioned as critical meeting places, anti-colonial hubs, and sites of exchange after WWII due to postwar mass migration. The project addresses the invisibility of overseas artists in histories of art through computational methods revealing their connections and intersections.

The relational database built for this project has been modeled upon CIDOC CRM ontology and establishes an event-based schema that connects people (or actors as defined by the CRM) to each other and defines their identities and social relationships, including racial identity, citizenship, gender, social class, political affiliations, language(s) used, and belonging to artistic groups. We decided to adopt an “universally” recognised ontology for the benefits of data integration and exchange with GLAM institutions and other art history projects. However, we are increasingly aware of the epistemological biases and knowledge gaps present in the CIDOC CRM. In this lightning talk we will discuss our work, focusing on the classes and properties that need to be addressed to better represent the identities of artists, and review existing efforts to tackle elements of this issue in other ontologies and CIDOC CRM extensions.
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avatar for Janneke Van Hoeve

Janneke Van Hoeve

PhD Student, Carleton University
I am in my first year of studying for my PhD in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. My research on the international “Art Bank” model uses data to examine difficult histories in public art collections.My recent MA thesis work: ARTiculating Canadian Identities (padlet... Read More →
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Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja

Carleton University and University of the Arts London
Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja is a postdoctoral researcher working on the Worlding Public Cultures research project at the University of the Arts London and on the Mobile Subjects. Contrapuntal Modernisms research project at Carleton University in Canada. Her research interests span digital... Read More →
Monday October 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Zoom
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