Projects/GLAM events

Some topical projects initiated by the WMSE team to create basic data. See what's been done and how you can help out. Conferences • This Month in GLAM • GLAM events • Support items • OpenRefine • Maintenance

Through the Wikimedia Foundation, we have gained access to a dataset containing, among other things, about 1300 GLAM-related events of various kinds. These cover everything from individual Art+Feminism (Q22942) events around the world to #1Lib1Ref (Q23069) campaigns in Australia. The dataset has also contributed to the discovery of events and campaigns that were not part of it, for example various GLAM on Tour (Q25910) events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The dataset originates from This Month in GLAM (Q23369) newsletters and its individual reports, all of which have also had items here on Metabase for some time.

🚧 Work is ongoing on adding the events to Metabase. In March 2025, about 450 have been created.

🖊️ Help out by adding main subject (P15) statements.

🖊️ Help out by replacing a described at Wikimedia-page (P11) that links to a This Month in GLAM (Q23369) newsletter with a described by source (P90) statement with the same newsletter issue.

All events, their types and main subjects

# Events, their types and main subjects 

PREFIX wb: <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/entity/>
PREFIX wbt: <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/prop/direct/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?whereLabel (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?topicLabel; SEPARATOR = ", ") AS ?eventTopic)
(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ?typeLabel; SEPARATOR = ", ") AS ?eventType)
WHERE {
?item wbt:P5/wbt:P4* wb:Q40 . # is an event
OPTIONAL {?item wbt:P27 ?where}
OPTIONAL {?item wbt:P15 ?topic}
?item wbt:P5 ?type.
SERVICE wikibase:label {
bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,sv,it,es".
?item rdfs:label ?itemLabel.
?where rdfs:label ?whereLabel.
?type rdfs:label ?typeLabel.
?topic rdfs:label ?topicLabel.} }
GROUP BY ?item ?itemLabel ?whereLabel

Try it!