Linked Art Exhibition Browser Data Analysis

The Linked Art Exhibition Browser Data Analysis is used to examine the 'shape' of exhibition data expressed as Linked Art JSON-LD.

The application includes Jupyter notebooks that can be viewed via various means, including via a web app interface using Mercury.

The app was created for use with the Linked Art Exhibition Browser and the Linked Art Exhibition MoMA dataset.

This repository also contains notebooks that create summary data files for us with the Linked Art Exhibition Browser

Jupyter notebooks

Data variables file

• data variables file - A Jupyter notebook that defines variables that are reused in other notebooks. This notebook needs to be executed before the other notebooks, to initialise these variables.

Data analysis

Summary data file creation

• exhibition summary file creator
• person summary file creator
• person linked data - queries wikidata for image files and writes URLs to data/wikidata files

How to view the notebooks

Visual Studio Code - Jupyter plugin

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-toolsai.jupyter

If you have the Jupyter notebook extension, you can run the notebooks in Visual Studio Code editor:

• open and run the variables.ipynb notebook
• open and run the persons.ipynb notebook

Jupyter Notebook

https://jupyter.org/

The run the Jupyter notebook in the browser, use the following command:

• jupyter notebook
• open and run the variables.ipynb notebook
• open and run the persons.ipynb notebook

Mercury

https://github.com/mljar/mercury

Mercury provides a web app interface to the Jupyter notebooks.

• To start Mercury enter on the command line:
• mercury watch variables.ipynb
• This will start Mercury.
• To add notebooks to the web app, enter the following in the command line

mercury watch person.ipynb mercury watch person_nationality.ipynb mercury watch person_name.ipynb mercury watch person_born.ipynb mercury watch person_exhibitions.ipynb mercury watch exhibitions_year.ipynb mercury watch exhibitions.ipynb

Use the command mercury list to list the notebooks available in the app.

Use the commend mercury delete <notebook filename> to remove a notebook from the mercury web app

• Navigate to the URL provided e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8000/
• Importantly, first action should be to open the variables notebook and press run.
• Click on the Mercury logo to return to the home page
• You are now ready to view the other notebooks available

Person

person.ipynb

This notebook contains two interactive widgets that allow you to change input values to the notebooks

• birth year
  • updates the Selected birth year / first letter of surname histogram
• nationality
  • updates the Selected nationality - American / Birth year histogram

Enter a valid nationality or birth year and press run to view an updated output.

Person - Nationality

person_nationality.ipynb

Person - Name

person_name.ipynb

Person - Exhibitions

person_exhibitions.ipynb

Person - Birth Date

person_born.ipynb

Exhibition

exhibitions.ipynb

Exhibition year

exhibition_year.ipynb

Links

• Mercury https://github.com/mljar/mercury
• Mercury documentation https://mercury-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Jupyter notebooks https://jupyter.org/
• Linked Art https://linked.art
• Linked Art Exhibition Browser
• Linked Art Exhibition MoMA dataset