[HN Gopher] Art Gallery Datasets
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       Art Gallery Datasets
        
       Author : benleb
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2021-09-07 15:05 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.artnome.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.artnome.com)
        
       | xipho wrote:
       | Hmm, they need the GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/) of these.
        
       | mdoms wrote:
       | Difficult to understand how to extract artist information
       | reliably. This is a flat data set so to do a proper ETL into a
       | relational database you'll need to normalize as you go. But each
       | piece of information about the artists is stored in a separate
       | array, and the arrays are not all of the same size. So assuming
       | you can rely on the arrays all being ordered the same (dubious
       | assumption) there's still no way to map reliably.
       | 
       | For example, how do I create Artist records with the correct bios
       | assigned to each artist from this record? (Nationality is easy,
       | if the sorting assumption holds).                 {
       | "Title": "Zhar-ptitsa, nos. 1-14",       "Artist": [
       | "Leon Bakst",         "Ivan Bilibin",         "Leonid
       | Brailovskii",         "Sergei Chekhonin",         "L. E.
       | Chirikov",         "Natalia Goncharova",         "Boris
       | Grigor'ev",         "Boris Kustodiev",         "Mikhail
       | Larionov",         "Georgi Shlikht"       ],
       | "ConstituentID": [         300,         23753,         23754,
       | 14602,         23755,         2229,         14632,         23756,
       | 3389,         23757       ],       "ArtistBio": [
       | "Russian, 1866-1924",         "Russian, 1881-1962",
       | "Russian, 1881-1964"       ],       "Nationality": [
       | "Russian",         "",         "",         "",         "",
       | "Russian",         "",         "",         "Russian"       ],
        
       | pletnes wrote:
       | What kind of <<digital humanities>> research has been, or could
       | be done, based on one or more of these datasets?
        
       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | How weird that they DO NOT include images.
        
         | swayvil wrote:
         | I think it's an academic-specific derangement. They lose track
         | of the difference between the symbol and the symbolized. So a
         | wall-o-words is just as good as a gallery fulla paintings.
        
           | joe5150 wrote:
           | This is open data/metadata about art, not an attempt to
           | digitize artworks. Also, the descriptions make it pretty
           | clear that several of these institutions have made tens of
           | thousands of digital images of artworks available.
        
             | swayvil wrote:
             | Yes, we get that. Nevertheless an image or 2 would really
             | tie it together.
        
               | joe5150 wrote:
               | As decoration, sure. I don't think it would really add
               | anything to the information about the datasets on this
               | page.
        
       | jwilber wrote:
       | I've created some art datasets in addition to those presented:
       | 
       | Bob Ross Paintings: https://github.com/jwilber/Bob_Ross_Paintings
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       | USDA Pomological Watercolors (pretty paintings of fruits):
       | https://github.com/jwilber/USDA_Pomological_Watercolors
        
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