Cultural Venues Wikidata - Datathon

Cultural venues are an important part of the performing arts ecosystem.

Theatres, concert halls, black boxes, music venues: these buildings provide the best possible settings for audiences to experience the outstanding performances our artists can deliver. 

However, there is still no comprehensive open database of performing arts venues. This makes it difficult for these venues, and the productions they present, to be found online by audiences. 

Let’s change that! 

Produced by LaCogency, CAPACOA and with the support of ArtsBuild Ontario and the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Cultural Venues Datathon will bring participants together to work in a relaxed and informal environment to populate Wikidata with information about many cultural venues we know and love.

• Datathon Launch: Monday, April 25 at 3:00-5:30 p.m. EDT / 7:00-8:30 p.m. UTC
• Guided activities in English:
  • Tuesday, April 26 at 12:00-1:30 pm EDT / 4:00-5:30 pm UTC
    • Check-in and guided editing
    • TOPIC: How to model a building with several performance spaces.
  • Thursday, April 28 at 12:00-1:30 pm EDT / 4:00-5:30 pm UTC
    • Check-in and guided editing
    • TOPIC: How to add geographic metadata to a cultural place.
• Datathon Closing: May 2, 12:00-12:30 EDT / 16:00-16:30 UTC

No previous experience with Wikidata is required.

At each session experienced wikidatians will guide participants on how to input cultural venue information into Wikidata. This (Wiki)Datathon is intended to be a unifying activity that supports the overall goals of the Wikiproject Cultural venues.

For more information and to register visit: https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/event/cultural-venues-datathon/