1 About the original exhibition
Exhibition title: ‘while something is happening here, something else is happening there ; works 1988 - 1999’ ; Spectrum - Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen
Location:
Sprengel-Museum Hannover, 26.9.1999 - 2.1.2000.
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, 15.1. - 2.4.2000.
Sprengel Museum website: https://www.sprengel-museum.de/ausstellungen/archiv
The sum of what is currently publicly available about the artworks in the exhibition.
Sourced from OCR-processed exhibition catalogue held by HsH Library.
Exhibition information (DNB publication record) is included for reference. https://d-nb.info/957409494 ISBN 978-3-88375-396-6.
2 Introduction
See the Curator’s Guide for more information on how to document exhibitions.
2.1 Workflows
Workflows can be from active curating project or retrospective documentation of past exhibitions.
2.1.1 Active projects workflow
Enter data manually into Wikidata, see: Curators’ Guide
2.1.2 Retrospective workflow
2.1.2.1 OCR Workflow
Book > OCR > Dataset > Wikidata > Publication > Deposit (Mint PIDs) This is the minimal Linked Open Exhibition process: a source book is converted through OCR into a FAIR dataset, then structured data is published to Wikidata and rendered as a Quarto publication.
3 Example Notebooks
The computational publishing notebook set.
Notebooks to be run:
Illustration of OCR process (not for running):
Code cells in a Markdown file.
3.1 The prototype
The OCR is a R&D LLM processed experiment by Chloë Farr in cooperation with Computational Publishing Service NFDI4Culture @ TIB Open Science Lab with HsH.
This prototype made by Simon Worthington as part of Linked Open Exhibition, an experimental prototype pipeline for publishing art exhibition data as Linked Open Data (LOD). It was created with students of the Bachelor of Arts Information Management at Hochschule Hannover in the course BIM-126-02 Data Science (SoSe 2026). See Wikiversity link for teaching materials. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/BIM-126-02-Data-Science-Linked-Open-Exhibition (EN/DE).
4 Data Stewardship
This starter project follows reproducibility-oriented practices aligned with FAIR principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016).
5 Reproducibility Notes
Package dependencies are pinned in requirements.txt and Python runtime is pinned in runtime.txt.
6 Copyright and Licensing
All materials here are open-licenced unless otherwise stated and follow FAIR Data principles and follow UNESCO Open Science recommendations (UNESCO 2021).
Source catalogue. The exhibition data is extracted from the printed catalogue Baldessari: while something is happening here, something else is happening there: works 1988–1999 (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 1999), ISBN 978-3-88375-396-6, DNB record https://d-nb.info/957409494. Texts by Meg Cranston, Diedrich Diederichsen and Thomas Weski; published for the exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover (26 September 1999 – 2 January 2000) and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (16 January – 2 April 2000). The catalogue, including its texts, photographs and reproductions of the artworks, remains protected by copyright held by the publisher, authors, artist and other rights holders. It is not republished here: only factual catalogue data (such as titles, dates, materials, dimensions and catalogue numbers) is extracted and released in the dataset, and no catalogue texts or images are reproduced. The bibliographic record is provided by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek under CC0 1.0.
The project combines several licensing arrangements.
- The software, notebooks, and Quarto source are covered by the repository’s existing GNU GPL v3 terms.
- The catalogue and dataset files in the project are released under CC0 1.0 Universal and the repository copy is retained in LICENSE-data, so the underlying OCR-derived data may be reused without restriction for research, teaching, and public scholarship.
- For research use, this project also recognises that text and data mining (TDM) may be permitted under the UK and German legal frameworks for scientific research, including UK copyright exceptions and the German research exception in § 60d UrhG. These provisions are jurisdiction-specific and do not replace a review of any third-party rights or source-specific conditions.
This project is configured for:
- Quarto manuscript authoring with
.qmdfiles. - Jupyter notebooks included as project computations.
- Publishing to GitHub Pages.
- Reproducible notebook execution on MyBinder.
7 AI LLM use
This project may have utilized AI language models (LLMs) for tasks such as text generation, summarization, or data extraction. Any use of AI LLMs is supplementary and does not replace human authorship or verification of the content.
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, using Anthropic Claude models (Claude Haiku 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5), assisted with the data model documentation, Quarto and Python configuration, notebook set-up and drafting of text. The OCR notebook (03-catalogue-ocr) is based on AI LLM use for text extraction. All outputs were reviewed by the authors. See the TIB AI policy.
The project is aiming to move to open-source and open weight LLM models.
8 Acknowledgements
A project made with the students of the Bachelor of Arts Information Management (BIM) of Hannover University of the Applied Science and Arts in partnership with Computational Publishing Service from the Open Science Lab, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, and with NFDI4Culture – Consortium for Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage, as part of National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
9 References
For the project bibliography, see References.