Conference Paper: “Art History on Wikipedia, a Macroscopic Observation”

The following full text conference paper was made available today via arXiv.

Title

Art History on Wikipedia, a Macroscopic Observation

Authors

Doron Goldfarb
Vienna University of Technology
Max Arends
Vienna University of Technology
Josef Froschauer
Vienna University of Technology
Dieter Merkl
Vienna University of Technology

Source

via arXiv (Full Text)
The paper is also published in the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference. ACM, New York, NY, USA. pp. 163 – 168.
WebSci 2012 took plance on June 22–24, 2012 in Evanston, Illinois.

Abstract

How are articles about art historical actors interlinked within Wikipedia? Lead by this question, we seek an overview on the link structure of a domain specific subset of Wikipedia articles. We use an established domain-specific person name authority, the Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), in order to externally identify relevant actors. Besides containing consistent biographical person data, this database also provides associative relationships between its person records, serving as a reference link structure for comparison. As a first step, we use mappings between the ULAN and English Dbpedia provided by the Virtual Internet Authority File (VIAF). This way, we are able to identify 18,002 relevant person articles. Examining the link structure between these resources reveals interesting insight about the high level structure of art historical knowledge as it is represented on Wikipedia.

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