The E.A.T. Bibliography (Wikibase Project Page)

Background

The E.A.T. Bibliography [1], compiled by E.A.T. founder Billy Klüver, is a publication containing a comprehensive bibliographic reference list of printed material (books, articles, catalogs, and notices) by or about the avant-garde movement Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) from 1965 to 1980. E.A.T. was an organization founded in 1966 by artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, and engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhaer. It operated from the mid-sixties to the late-seventies, bringing together artists and engineers to collaborate on a variety of projects including avant-garde artwork and performance, with the goal of transforming both industries.

The E.A.T. Bibliography is part of the broader E.A.T. Knowledge Graph Project. The Semantic Lab has converted a significant portion of these references into linked data, now integrated into the E.A.T. Knowldge Graph dataset.

[1 ] Klüver, B. (1980). E.A.T. bibliography: August 12, 1965-January 18, 1980. New York: Experiments in Art and Technology.

Project Description

The E.A.T. Bibliography lists over 600 published materials by or about E.A.T. from 1965 to 1980. The Semantic Lab has converted a subset of 447 references into linked data, covering the period from August 12, 1965 to December 30, 1969.

The publication is divided into two sections: Bibliography of Documents, which includes materials published by the E.A.T. organization, and Bibliography of Articles, which includes materials published about E.A.T.’s activities by external authors. While this categorization is not explicitly represented in the knowledge graph to avoid ambiguity, it can be easily inferred. For the purposes of this project, we have defined each document listed as an instance of a bibliographic reference for clarity and consistency.

Schema

Property ID	Property label	Property description	Wikidata equivalent
P1	instance of	that class of which this subject is a particular example and member	P31
P91	author	main creator(s) of a written document	[1]
P82	title	title of a work, such as a newspaper article, a literary work, a website, or a performance work. This could also be a label ascribed to an archival document by an archives. Title should appear here as listed in archival document/metadata (not edited by SemLab)	P1476
P100	subtitle	The secondary or alternate title of a work	P1680
P98	date	date or point in time associated with the work. The specific type of date, if known (e.g. publication date, creation date, etc.) should be listed as a qualifier	P585
P141	object named as	used as qualifier to record the value of a statement’s object as it appears in the original source. For the E.A.T. Bibliography, it is used to qualify dates as they appear in the reference.	P1932
P103	published in	larger work that a given work was published in, like a book, journal or music album. Includes news outlet/periodical that published the article	P1433
P84	publisher	organization or person responsible for publishing a document	P123
P104	place of publication	geographical place of publication	P291
P88	volume	bibliographical unit; volume number of a particular publication	P478
P89	issue number	bibliographical unit; issue number of a particular publication	P433
P87	page number	the page of a document which a block or text or entity appears on; or the page of an article within a publication	P304
P101	number of pages	number of pages in an edition of a written work	P1104
P130	description	description of the document as stated in the original source	N/A
P17	local ID	locally assigned identifier	N/A
P11	part of project	describes project components such as properties, objects, agents, etc. which are part of a Semantic Lab project. This property should not be used with ontological classes	N/A
P24	parent document	the original document that the reference block comes from	P361
P247	bibliographic reference of	entry which represents and describes a specific resource	[N/A]
P248	has bibliographic reference	reference to the related source in E.A.T. Knowledge Graph	[N/A]
P8	wikidata Q number	Wikidata Q number	N/A

Project Data

A browsable view of the data, driven by SPARQL queries, is available here.

Note: For a general overview of the data available on the Semantic Lab's Wikibase and various methods for querying it, please visit the Semantic Lab’s Wikibase homepage.

Sample SPARQL queries:

All items in the E.A.T. Bibliography

Items with known authors, displaying the first listed creator

References for documents created by Robert Rauschenberg

References for documents with known places of publication

All references representing a corresponding document in the E.A.T. Knowledge Graph