Self-organized Art Initiatives in Switzerland

This data set was created as part of the "Off OffOff Of?" research project at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art. It contains information about more than 700 self-organized art initiatives in Switzerland and is the basis for the project website selbstorganisation-in-der-kunst.ch.

The data set consist of 3 tables, where data/projects.csv is the main table and data/people.csv and data/places.csv refer to it with additional information. datapackage.json explains the structure and the data types according to Frictionless Data conventions.

The data set has been cleaned up and ingested into Wikidata during GLAMhack24.

Processing steps

• Geocoordinates (WGS84) have been added to data/places.csv via scripts/retrieve_WGS84.py using the Nominatim API.
• Data has been cleaned and adapted for Wikidata using OpenRefine.
• Reconciled against Wikidata, Q-numbers have been added to the data sets.

Wikidata

Parts of the data have been ingested to Wikidata. The ingested self-organized art initiatives are identified as described by source (P1343) Unabhängig, prekär, professionell (Q130250557), the main publication of the research project.

The following queries can be used to retrieve the data.

Simple list of all initiatives:

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE
{
  ?item wdt:P1343 wd:Q130250557.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

https://w.wiki/B99B

Example of a list with additional information:

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?placeLabel ?start ?end WHERE
{
  ?item wdt:P1343 wd:Q130250557.
  OPTIONAL {
    ?item wdt:P276 ?place.
  }
  OPTIONAL {
    ?item wdt:P571 ?start.
  }
  OPTIONAL {
    ?item wdt:P576 ?end.
  }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

https://w.wiki/B99K

World map of self-organized art initiatives:

#defaultView:Map
SELECT DISTINCT ?project ?projectLabel ?geo WHERE {
  { ?project wdt:P31 wd:Q3325736. }
  UNION
  { ?project wdt:P31 wd:Q4034417. }
  # ?project wdt:P17 wd:Q39. # Switzerland only
  ?project wdt:P625 ?geo.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

https://w.wiki/B99N

License

The content of the research project "Off OffOff Of?" is released under the license CC BY 4.0, unless differently stated; the structured data about the self-organized art initiatives are released with the license CC0 1.0.