[okfn-discuss] Art/Artist/Gallery/Show Datasets

Thu Dec 3 13:38:39 UTC 2009

2009/12/2 Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org>:
> Heya.
>
> I've been looking at online services such as aertfacts and artinfo that
> provide information about artists, galleries and shows. They all have
> the most reactionary terms of use. ;-) Are there any freely available
> services or datasets containing such information? Contemporary or
> historical art is fine. I've found a dataset for Ars Electronica and
> some infobox sets on Infochimps, and there's the Yorck paintings on
> Wikimedia but does anyone know of anything else?

My guess that re. galleries and shows there will be almost nothing
"open". On artists I reckon you should be able to pull out
somethingout via dbpedia (wikipedia) or freebase. Do register what you
find on ckan.net if you can spare 30s :)

Rufus