APIS Dataset artists

This dataset contains biographical data produced in course of the digital humanities project “Mapping historical networks: Building the new Austrian Prosopographical/Biographical Information System (APIS)” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It was funded by the Austrian National Fonds for Research, Technology and Development. The biographies were manually annotated by the author via a web application (apis.acdh.oewa.ac.at) which was developed at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH).

The starting point of the dataset (cl Kuenstlerhaus) were 506 annotated artists’ biographies from the Austrian Biographical Encyclopaedia 1815–1950 (ÖBL). For these persons, the membership in the Association of Fine Artists Vienna (Genossenschaft der bildenden Künstler Wiens) was confirmed by the comparison of the yearly published membership lists with the lemmas of the ÖBL. The data were collected primarily to enable a) statistics b) historical network analyses and c) cartographic analyses.

The data is provided as graphml files:

relations between persons (kinship, pupil/teacher)
cl_kuenstlerhaus_person-person_v1-01

relations between persons and institutions (education, career, social networks)
cl_kuenstlerhaus_person-institution_v1-01

relations between persons and places (mobility)
cl_kuenstlerhaus_person-place_v1-01

The datset was last reviewed in January 2020.