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DOI: 10.4018/IJACDT.2019010101 International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies Volume 8 • Issue 1 • January-June 2019 Copyright©2019,IGIGlobal.CopyingordistributinginprintorelectronicformswithoutwrittenpermissionofIGIGlobalisprohibited. 1 Data-Driven Maps of Art History Doron Goldfarb, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT Many approaches to explain conceptions of developments in the arts to both peers and a more generalaudienceincludeddiagramsrepresentingnetworksofrelatedentitiessuchasgenealogiesof importanthistoricalactorsorstyles.Whilesuchvisualizationsweretraditionallycreatedbyhand, therecentemergenceofextensivedigitalrepositoriesofarthistoryinformationenablenewmeans ofpresentation.Thisworkseekstoexplorethepotentialofopenlyavailabledatasourcestocreate bottom-up,datadrivenversionsofsuchnetworkmapsofarthistory.Ithighlightscommonalities anddifferencesbetweenviewsderivedfrominstitutionalandcrowd-sourceddatarepositoriesand comparesthemwithidentifiedhistoricalexamples.Theresultssuggestthattheavailabledatacanbe usedtocreatelargescaleviewsonspecificdevelopmentsinarthistory,potentiallyservingasaidfor navigatingvastonlinecollectionsofdigitizedartworksbutalsoasmeansofreflectionontheorigin ofthedatasourcesthemselves. KeywoRDS Art Styles, Biographies, Core-Periphery, Data Analytics, DBpedia, Genealogy, Network Visualization, ULAN, Wikidata, Wikipedia INTRoDUCTIoN Especiallyaftertheinceptionofarthistoryasanacademicdisciplineinthelate18thcentury,diagrams havebeenusedasvisualdevicestoconveyviewsonrelateddevelopments.Theywereincludedin publicationsandtextbooksandservedascommunicationalmeanstosupportscholarlypositionsandas educationaltoolsprovidingbird’seyeviewsonlarge-scalehistoricaldevelopments.Famousexamples suchasthe“DiagramofStylisticEvolutionfrom1890until1935”from(Barr,1986/1937)sought topresentvisualaggregationsofmultitudesofindividualprocessesasmacroscopic,law-likeviews onartisticevolution.Asdiscussedin(Schmidt-Burkhardt,2005),suchchartswereoftenpraisedfor theireducationalvaluebutalsochallengedforlackingobjectivityduetoomissionsorspecialfoci introducedbytheirauthors. Inrecentyears,theincreasingavailabilityofbothdigitizedandborn-digitalarthistoryresources wentinparallelwiththeemergenceofnewparadigmsofdata-drivenanalysiswhichcanbesubsumed undertheumbrellaterm“dataanalytics”.Theemergingfieldofdigitalarthistoryincreasinglyuses algorithmicmethodstoanalyzetheaccumulatingbodyofhistoricalmaterial,whilerecenttrendsin museologyproposedigitalmeansofpresentingartcollectionstoanincreasinglytech-savvyaudience,

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DOI: 10.4018/IJACDT.2019010101

International Journal of Art, Culture and Design TechnologiesVolume 8 • Issue 1 • January-June 2019

Copyright©2019,IGIGlobal.CopyingordistributinginprintorelectronicformswithoutwrittenpermissionofIGIGlobalisprohibited.

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Data-Driven Maps of Art HistoryDoron Goldfarb, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

ABSTRACT

Many approaches to explain conceptions of developments in the arts to both peers and a moregeneralaudienceincludeddiagramsrepresentingnetworksofrelatedentitiessuchasgenealogiesofimportanthistoricalactorsorstyles.Whilesuchvisualizationsweretraditionallycreatedbyhand,therecentemergenceofextensivedigitalrepositoriesofarthistoryinformationenablenewmeansofpresentation.Thisworkseekstoexplorethepotentialofopenlyavailabledatasourcestocreatebottom-up,datadrivenversionsofsuchnetworkmapsofarthistory.Ithighlightscommonalitiesanddifferencesbetweenviewsderivedfrominstitutionalandcrowd-sourceddatarepositoriesandcomparesthemwithidentifiedhistoricalexamples.Theresultssuggestthattheavailabledatacanbeusedtocreatelargescaleviewsonspecificdevelopmentsinarthistory,potentiallyservingasaidfornavigatingvastonlinecollectionsofdigitizedartworksbutalsoasmeansofreflectionontheoriginofthedatasourcesthemselves.

KeywoRDSArt Styles, Biographies, Core-Periphery, Data Analytics, DBpedia, Genealogy, Network Visualization, ULAN, Wikidata, Wikipedia

INTRoDUCTIoN

Especiallyaftertheinceptionofarthistoryasanacademicdisciplineinthelate18thcentury,diagramshavebeenusedasvisualdevicestoconveyviewsonrelateddevelopments.Theywereincludedinpublicationsandtextbooksandservedascommunicationalmeanstosupportscholarlypositionsandaseducationaltoolsprovidingbird’seyeviewsonlarge-scalehistoricaldevelopments.Famousexamplessuchasthe“DiagramofStylisticEvolutionfrom1890until1935”from(Barr,1986/1937)soughttopresentvisualaggregationsofmultitudesofindividualprocessesasmacroscopic,law-likeviewsonartisticevolution.Asdiscussedin(Schmidt-Burkhardt,2005),suchchartswereoftenpraisedfortheireducationalvaluebutalsochallengedforlackingobjectivityduetoomissionsorspecialfociintroducedbytheirauthors.

Inrecentyears,theincreasingavailabilityofbothdigitizedandborn-digitalarthistoryresourceswentinparallelwiththeemergenceofnewparadigmsofdata-drivenanalysiswhichcanbesubsumedundertheumbrellaterm“dataanalytics”.Theemergingfieldofdigitalarthistoryincreasinglyusesalgorithmicmethodstoanalyzetheaccumulatingbodyofhistoricalmaterial,whilerecenttrendsinmuseologyproposedigitalmeansofpresentingartcollectionstoanincreasinglytech-savvyaudience,

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seekingtocontextualizeexhibitsusingmultimediaguidesandinteractiveinstallationsforlocalanddedicated online presentations for remote visitors. Information visualization plays an importantroleinbothscenarios,supportingresearchersintheinterpretationoflargedatacollectionsandthecommunicationof their findings,but alsoprovidingvirtualvisitorswithnavigationalguides forfindingtheirwaythroughvastonlineartcollections.

Theoriginalaimof thisworkwas toexplore thepotentialofhistoricalsocialnetworkdata,representedthroughinterlinkedartistbiographies,forprovidingbird’seyeoverviewsonarthistoricaldevelopmentsbeyondtherelativelylimitedscopeofexisting,oftenmanuallycreatedmapsofarthistory.Thiswasdrivenby the expectation that large-enoughamountsof recorded tiesbetweenartistsand/orotherimportantpersonsfromtheartworldwouldaggregateintolarge-scalenetworksspanningmultiple centurieswhosevisualizationcould support the contextualizationof artworksinvirtualpresentations.Theanalysisofexistingbiographicaldatasources,however,revealedthattheywerenotfreeofcultural/institutionalbiaseswhichappearedinformofdifferingcompositionsofnationalitiesand/orrolesofcoveredpersons.Thisprovidedanadditionalandrelevantresearchperspectivewhichdirectlylinkedtoexistingdiscussionsaboutmodesofinclusionandexclusionintheformationofthecanonofarthistory,globalaspectsofwhichwereoftensubsumedunderthenotionofthecoreandtheperipheryoftheartworld(Joyeux-Prunel,2014).

Theaimsoftheworkpresentedinthisarticleweretherefore(1)todemonstratethepossibilityofcreatingdata-drivenmapsofarthistoryand(2)toshowtheiruseforrevealingspecificbiasespresentindifferentdatacollections.Thispaperunifiestheauthors’previousrelatedwork(Goldfarb,Arends,Froschauer,&Merkl,2013)(Goldfarb,Arends,Froschauer,Weingartner,&Merkl,2014)underacommondataprocessingframeworkanddiscusseslarge-scalenetworkvisualizationsofarthistorybiographiesgeneratedwithcontentfromtheGettyUnionArtistNamesandWikipedia,comparingthemwitheachotherandwithexistingscholarlyexamples.Differentfilteringapproachesareusedtohighlightdataspecificaspects,includingmeanstounravelchronologicalstructureembeddedinhighlyinterlinkedsetsofhistoricalentitiesandtorevealhiddeninteractionsbetweensubgroupsofthem.Theresultsshowthatdata-drivenmapsofarthistorysuccessfullyextendtheirmanuallycreatedscholarlycounterpartsbyputtingtheminlargerhistoricalcontextandatthesametimeserveastooltoreflectuponthenatureoftheuseddatasourcesthemselves.

DATA SoURCeS AND TooLS

TheGettyUnionListofArtistNames(ULAN)isanestablisheddatasourcecuratedbydomainexpertsascontrolledvocabularyforpersonnamesrelevantforarthistory.Asdescribedin(Baca&Gill,2015),ithasrecentlybeenmadeavailableasLinkedData,reflectingthecurrenttrendforculturalinstitutionstoopentheirdatabasesforpublicaccessandre-use.Besidescontainingrecordsforabout200,000personsandinstitutions,theformerwithbasicinformationsuchasnationality,role,birthanddeathdates,etc.,theULANalsoprovidesassociativelinksbetweenasubsetofitsrecords,representing identifiedprofessional, familialandother relationship types.Due to its institutionalbackground,thepresenceofpersonsintheULANcanbeconsideredasevidencefortheirimportanceforthedomainofarthistory.

Asoneofthepremierexamplesforfreelyaccessible,crowd-curatedcontentontheInternet,Wikipediainturnunitesawiderangeofcontributionsfrombothdomainexpertsandlaypersons,mainlyrelyingonmutualreviewsforensuringthequalityofprovidedcontent.Beinganencyclopedia,its articles are usually dedicated to distinct entities such as persons, places or concepts and aremutuallyconnectedviahyperlinks.ThisallowstotreatinterlinkedbiographiesonWikipedialikeasocialnetworkandtocompareitwithmoreexplicitnetworkstructuressuchasfoundintheULAN.SeveralprojectsandinitiativesmakeWikipediadataaccessibleforquantitativeuse:Preprocessedandyearlyupdatedpage-linkdatasetsextractedfromvariousWikipedialanguageversionsareprovidedbyDBpedia,anapproachtoextractstructuredinformationfromWikipages(Aueretal.,2007).The

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WikidataplatforminturnfeaturesstructuredrecordswithcommunitycontributedfactsaboutentitiespresentinWikipediaandincludesmanypersonrecordsinterlinkedwiththeirrespectiveWikipediabiographiesinmultiplelanguages(Vrandečić&Krötzsch,2014).DuetocontinuouseffortsoftheWikipediacommunity toattachauthoritycontrol information toWikipediaarticles,described in(Klein&Kyrios,2013),manyofthesepersonrecordscontainULANmappingswhichcanbeusedasreferencetoidentifyWikipediabiographiesrelevanttoarthistory.

In thiswork,Wikidata,DBpedia and theULANwereused toderive three relateddatasets,including (1) the network of ULAN biographies connected via associative ULAN links, (2) thenetwork of multilingual Wikipedia biographies mapped to the ULAN via a dedicated Wikidataproperty(ID: P245)andinterlinkedviamultilingualWikipediahyperlinksderivedfromDBpediaand(3)thebipartitenetworkofDBpedialinksbetweenmultilingualarticlesaboutart/architecturestylesandWikipediabiographies,allidentifiedviaWikidataentitiestaggedasartmovement(ID: Q968159),architecturalstyle(ID: Q32880)orhuman(ID: Q5),thelatternotlimitedtothosemappedtotheULAN.Datasets(1)and(2)wereusedforthepersonnetworkexperimentdescribedbelow,followedbytheperson-stylenetworkexperimentusingdataset(3).

AllthepresentednetworkvisualizationsarebasedontheForceAtlas2algorithmdescribedin(Jacomy,Venturini,Heymann,&Bastian,2014)asimplementedintheGephiplatform.Thislayoutalgorithmturnedouttobemostsuitedforvisualizingnetworkswithintrinsicchronologicalfeatures.TheRstatisticsplatformwasusedfordataprocessingandanalysis.

PeRSoN NeTwoRKS IN THe ULAN AND IN wIKIPeDIA

ULAN Person NetworkTheULANdatasetofsummer2015connected21,942personrecordsvia50,076uniquebutmirrored–e.g.allstudent_oflinkshadcomplementaryteacher_oflinks–associativelinks,correspondingto25,038uniquepairsofinterlinkedULANrecords.Having4,083connectedcomponents(CC)intotal,thenetworkfeaturedagiantconnectedcomponent(GCC)consistingof10,444(47.58%)personsinterlinkedvia29,956(59.82%)links.Sincethenextlargestcomponentonlyfeatured39persons,theGCCwasthefocusoftheanalysisanditsvisualizationisshowninFigure1.Thepersonsfeaturedinthechartwerefoundtofollowaroughchronologicalsuccessionfromlefttoright,withRenaissanceandBaroqueartistsdominatingtheleftside,late19thand20thcenturypersonstheright.Thecoloralphabetproposedin(Green-Armytage,2010)wasusedforcolor-codingthepersonnodesbythetop26(plusonefor“other”)preferrednationalitiesassignedintheULAN.Thisevenmoreunderscoredthechronologicalnatureofthenetworkbyrevealingclear-cutnationalclustersofpersons,especiallyvisiblefor the three largestnationalitiesrepresentingabout50.5%of thepersons in theGCC—Italian(14.33%),French(22.71%)andAmerican(13.47%).Theirapparentchronologicalsuccessionreflectedshiftingculturalcentersoftheartworldthroughtime.Additionaldevelopmentsappearedaboveandbelowthismainstrand,suchchainsoflooselyconnectedgroupsofDutch(6.26%)andFlemish(3.16%)personsontop,manyofthemfromtheDutchGoldenAge,andasimilarlyloosegroupofBritish(8.56%)personsatthebottom.Anotherlargegroupofpersons,Germans(8.35%),wasspreadacrossthewholeplotwithoutformingacontiguoussection.Manydenselyconnected,clique-likesubgroupsofpersonswerefoundtorepresentfamilies.

ThedenselydocumentedrelationshipsforItalian,FrenchandAmericanpersonsstoodincontrasttotherather“skinny”networksrecordedforothernationalities,whichsuggestedthatthesegroupsofpeoplewerethefocusofthecollectionspresentintheinstitutionscontributingtotheULAN,anissuetobetakenintoaccountwhenconsideringthesedataforcreatingalarge-scaleviewonarthistoricaldevelopmentsovercenturies.FundamentalarthistoricalepochssuchasItalianRenaissance,DutchGoldenAge,FrenchAcademism,etc.,neverthelessbecameclearlyvisibleinthevisualizationoftheULANnetwork,whichwasfoundtobeininterestingagreementwiththe“ChartofArtHistory”producedbyNewtonin1941forthetextbook”EuropeanPaintingandSculpture”(Newton,1956/1941,

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p.237).QuiteliketheULANnetwork,themanuallycreatedchartfeaturedthecenturiesbetween1255to1900tobedominatedbyItalianandFrenchartistswhichoutnumberedtherepresentativesofall theotherfeaturedEuropeanschools.Overall, thevisualizationoftheULANGCCshowedthatbiographicalnetworkdatacouldinprinciplebeusedtoprovidelarge-scaleviewsonhistoricaldevelopmentsandtheULAN’sapparentfocusonspecificnationalitiesprovidedastrongincentivetoexploreadditionalsources,suchasWikipedia,forcomparison.

Person Networks in wikipediaAsofMarch2016, 47,463out of 55,122Wikidataperson recordswithULANmappingshad acorrespondingWikipediaarticleinatleastonelanguageand40,943ofthemwereconnectedvia283,368uniqueWikipediahyperlinksasidentifiedinoneormoreofthe50largestDBpedialanguageversions.IncontrasttotheULAN,Wikipediahyperlinksbetweenpersonbiographieswerenotalwaysmirrored, the identified283,368hyperlinks represented237,139uniquepairsofULANmappedbiographies.Althoughstillverysparse,themultilingualnetworkofWikipediahyperlinksthushadhigherdensitythantheULANassociativelinknetwork(5.79vs.1.14averagelinksperperson,Linkdensity0.000283vs0.000104)anditsGCCcontained99.08%ofthe40,943involvedpersons.12,239(55,78%)oftheULANpersonrecordsinterconnectedviaassociativelinksintheULANwerefoundtohavecorrespondingWikipediaarticlesmutually interlinked inat leastoneof the50observedWikipedialanguageversionsand80.72%oftheexistingULANassociativelinksbetweenthemwerealsorepresentedasWikipediahyperlinks.

TheoverlapbetweentheULANandtheWikipedianetworksuggestedthatanintrinsicchronologyshould also exist in the latter, but an initial visualization exposed no visible chronology there,promptingforamorethoroughexploration.InordertoanalyzethetemporaldistributionofWikipediahyperlinksbetweenthemappedULANpersons,thedistributionsofthesourceandtargetbirthdates

Figure 1. Visualization of the ULAN network by nationality, colored by nationality

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ofthelinkedpairswereanalyzedandplottedona2DhistogramshowninFigure2,revealingvarioustemporalcharacteristicsofthestructureoftheWikipediahyperlinknetwork.Generallyincreasinginnumbersacrosstimeandinparallelwiththeoveralldistributionofpersonsbirthdatespeakingataround1850,about85%ofallthehyperlinksconnectedpersonsbornnotmorethan75yearsapart.Moreover,abouttwothirdsoftheWikipediahyperlinkspointedfrombiographiesofyoungerpersonstothoseofolderpersons.Onereasonforthistemporalasymmetrywerearticlesaboutoutstandingartistsandotherimportantpersonswhichwerefarmoreoftenreferencedbybiographiesoflatergenerationsthanviceversa.Somebiographies,e.g.articlesaboutimportantteachers,neverthelessfeaturedrelativelylonglistsoflinkstotheirpupils,whichinturncontributedtothestillextensivenumberofhyperlinkspointingintothefuture.Finally,therewasanapparentdiscontinuitybetweengroupsofpersonsfromGreekandRomanantiquity,visibleastwodistinctblobsat thediagonalcenteredaroundtheyears500BCand0AD,andthe”main”groupofpersonsfromthelatemiddleagesuntiltoday.Separatedbyaclearlyvisiblegapduringthemiddleages,theironlyconnectionvialinksoflongtemporaldistancereflectedtherenewedinterestinthecultureandtheartsofantiquityattheonsetofthemodernage.

Concerningtheidentifiedtemporalcharacteristics,themaindifferencebetweentheULANandWikipedianetworkswerethattheformerconsistedofsymmetriclinksmainlybetweencontemporaries(95.55%bornwithin75,98%within100yearsofeachother),whichresultedinpersonsfromantiquitytobedisconnectedfromtheULANGCC.Thissuggestedthatusingacutoffof75yearstoremove“longduration” links fromtheWikipedianetworkcoulduncover the temporalsuccessionof thefeaturedbiographiesviatheforce-basedlayout,althoughresultinginasimilar“lostconnection”toantiquity.ThiswasconfirmedinFigure3whichshowsthevisualizationoftheGCCofthefilterednetworkcombinedfromall50DBpedialanguageversions,featuringonlypersonsbornafter1000AD.Usingthesamecolor-codingfornationsasusedinFigure1fortheULANGCCrevealedasimilarchronologicalsuccessionofdistinctarthistoricalperiods.

SincetheselectionofWikipediabiographieswasbasedonpersonsfeaturedintheULAN,itwasnotsurprisingtofindasimilarsuccessionofItalian(green),French(red)andAmerican(blue)clustersinthefilteredWikipedianetwork,whichneverthelessalsocontaineddenseclustersofothernationalities.ManyDutch/Flemishpersons(light/darkorange)forexamplewereconcentratedina

Figure 2. 2D histogram of birth dates of interlinked Wikipedia biographies

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“DutchGoldenAg”cluster,whileBritishpersons(lightblue)appearedinaparalleldevelopmenttothecentralFrench“strand”.ClustersofothernationalitiesinturnoverlappedintheupperpartoftheFiguretoahighdegree.

While the visualization of the combined Wikipedia biography network showed a relativelybalancedpresenceof thedifferentnationalities,mostof the50 individual contributing languageversions had a clear tendency to focus on culturally related content. In order to highlight thisobservation,Figure4showseightindividualnetworksrepresentingthesevenlargestcontributinglanguageversions(English,German,French,Italian,Spanish,RussianandDutch)andtheJapaneseversionaslargestnon-Europeanlanguage,allcreatedusingthesamelayoutasusedinFigure3forbettercomparison.TheseparatedviewsemphasizedthateachWikipediaversionfeaturedespeciallydensepersonclustersforthosenationalitiesrelatedtoitslanguage,whichwasoftenduetouniquepersonbiographiesnotpresentelsewhereandsometimesrevealedremarkabledevelopments.ThedistinctJapanesestrand(turquoise)shownatthebottomoftheJapaneseWikipedianetworkvisualizationforexamplehadonlyminimalconnectionstootherculturesuntilthelate19thcenturyMeijiera,whoseopeningtowardstheWestbecamedramaticallyvisibleintheplot.

Regardlessoftheemphasisputontheirowncultures,theobservedlanguageversionsalsofeaturedmanysimilarities.Mostofthemsharedbiographiesaboutthemostfamousrepresentativesofarthistorywhosemutualtiesformedarecurring”skeleton”foundinallthedifferentlanguageversionsandalsointheULANassociativelinknetwork,spanningfromtheRenaissance(Giotto,DaVinci,Raphael,Dürer,..)andtheBaroque(Caravaggio,Rembrandt,Rubens,..)acrossthe18thand19thcenturies(Goya,David,Delacroix,Courbet,Monet, ..) tomodern(Cézanne,Matisse,Kandinsky,Picasso,Dalí,..),postwar(Pollock,Warhol,..)andcontemporaryart(Koons,Hirst,Banksy,..).Interestingvisualanalogieswerefoundintwodifferenthistoricaldiagrams:SimilartothevisualizationsofthenationalclustersinthefilteredWikipedianetworks,aconcurrentpresenceofinterconnectedculturalstrandswasfoundin(Strass,1828/1804),aremarkablemanuallycreatedvisualizationoftheinterplaybetweendifferentworldculturesacrosshistoryasparallel,mergingandbifurcatingrivers.AlfredH.Barr’scuratorial“torpedo”diagramsfrom(Barr,1941),sketchingthecompositionoftheidealMoMAcollection,representedanotherstrikinganalogy:ThefilteredWikipediabiographynetworkvisualizationsshowedsimilarsnapshotsoftheinterplayofchangingcentersofculturalhegemony

Figure 3. Pruned network of Wikipedia biographies identified via the ULAN in 50 language versions, colored by nationality

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acrosstime,butthistimenotasdeterminedbyasinglearthistorianbutviathecollectionofULANbiographiesfilteredbylanguage-specificcoveragesofdifferentWikipediaversions.

Network of Aggregated Links Between NationalitiesThevisualizationsofthenetworkofULANbiographiesinWikipediahighlightedthechronologicalinteractionsbetweengroupsofpersonsofdifferentnationalities.Thehighnumberofhomogeneousrelationshipsbetweenpersonsbelongingtooneofthefewtopcountingnationalities(the“core”),however,oftenmaskedtheinteractionsbetweenpersonsoflessprominentorigin(the“periphery”).Oneattempt tohighlight interactions inorwith theperipherywas tomove from the individual-basedmicro-leveltoamacro-levelnetworkofinteractingnationalities,derivedfromaggregatingnation-to-nationinteractionsfromtheindividuallevel.Thismacro-levelnetworkconsistedofnodesrepresentingnationalities,allpairsofwhichconnectedvialinksweightedbytheabsolutecountsofindividual-levellinksbetweenpersonsoftherespectivenationalities.Theobservedcounts,however,werestillhighlyskewedtowardsthecorenationsandinteractionsintheperipherythusassignedverylowoverallweights,callingforarelativemeasureforweightingtheaggregatednation-to-nationtiestakingthesizeofeachnationalityintoaccount.

Anexistingapproachcouldbeidentifiedforthispurpose,basedon“standardizedresiduals”asdescribedin(Agresti,2007,p.38)inthecontextofPearson’sChi-Squaredtestfortheindependence

Figure 4. Pruned biography networks as present in eight individual Wikipedia languages, colored by nationality

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oftwocategoricalvariables.The34,710possiblepairsof195sourceand178targetnationalitiesoftheULANmappedandinterconnectedWikipediabiographieswerethusarrangedinacontingencytableholdingthehyperlinkcountsbetweeneachnationpairasobservedinthecombinedWikipedialanguagenetwork.Inordertoreduceeffectsfromnoise,countsbelowfiveweresettozerobeforecalculatingthestandardizedresidualsasdescribedin(Agresti,2007).Theresultswerefilteredforaminimumofthreepositivestandardizeddeviationsfromexpectation,yieldinganetworkof371interactionsbetween128distinctnationalities.Figure5showsavisualizationofthisnetworkwherethethicknessofeachtierepresentsthevalueofitsstandardizedresidual,nowrevealinginterestingconnectionsinandwiththeperiphery.Therewasanapparent,clusteredstructureofdifferentnationalitygroupseachhavinghighlyinterconnectedmembers.

The clustering could be confirmed by applying the Louvain community detection methoddescribedin(Blondel,Guillaume,Lambiotte,&Lefebvre,2008)whichidentified14highlyseparatedgroupswithahighmodularityvalue,asdefinedin(M.E.J.Newman,2006),of0.736.TheidentifiedgroupsareshownindifferentcolorsinFigure5anditwasinterestingtoobservethatinmanycases,theywerebasedonformercolonialties,especiallyvisiblefortheFrench(bottomcenter,purple),Spanish(lowerright,blue)andBritish(topcenter,black)spheresofinfluence.Othergroupswerebasedonchangingstateorganizationsthroughouthistory,suchasthegroupofformerYugoslaviancountries (lowercenter, lightblue), theRussian/Soviet sphereof influence (lowercenter,green)ortheAustrian/GermangroupincludingformermembersoftheAustro-Hungarianempire(lowerleftcenter,orange).Someoftheclustersalsolinkedancientandmiddleage“nationalities”totheirmoderncounterparts,suchasthosecontainingItaliansandGreeks(topleft,red)orIraniansandIndians(topcenter,lightgreen).

Althoughclearlydistinctfromeachother,thedifferentencounteredclustersrevealedvaryinglevelsofhomogeneity.WhiletheclusterforScandinaviannations(center,grey)clearlyreflectedthetightrelationshipsbetweentheinvolvedcountries,theclusterofAsianandNorthAmerican(topright,cyan)

Figure 5. Residual network of aggregated nation to nation links

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waslesshomogeneous,suggestingthatthecommunitydetectionalgorithmwasnotabletodetectalltheclusterspotentiallypresentintheobserveddataset.Overall,theclustersofnationalitiesrevealedinterestingassociationswithanetworkofWikipedialanguagesstudiedin(Samoilenko,Karimi,Edler,Kunegis,&Strohmaier,2016).TheauthorsfoundculturalclustersofWikipedialanguageeditionsandusedcontemporarydatasourcesaboutcountryfeaturessuchasreligionandspokenlanguagestoexplaintheirformationtobemainlybasedonbilingualityandsharedreligion.Althoughbasedondifferenttypesofentities,theclusteringofcontemporaryandhistorical“nations”observedinthisworkappearedtobebasedonrelativelysimilarsocio-culturalfactors,raisinginterestingquestionsforfuturework.Consideringacomparablequantitativeanalysisforhistoricalentitiesthatexistedonlyforcertaindurationsandsignificantlychangedtheirgeographicalandculturalextentovertime,however,wouldrequiresignificanteffortforacquiringorevencreatingusabledatasourcesinthisregard.

BIPARTITe NeTwoRK oF STyLeS AND PeRSoNS LINKeD IN wIKIPeDIA

ThebottomupviewsoninteractionsbetweenpersonsofdifferentculturaloriginderivedfromtheULANandWikipediaprovidedinterestinginsightintothehigh-levelstructureofdevelopmentsinarthistoryandshowedanalogiestohistoricalscholarlydiagrams.Manyofthelatter,suchastheinitiallymentionedonefrom(Barr,1986/1937),however,mainlyconnecteddifferentstyleswitheachotheranddidnotfeaturemanyindividuals.Suchformalistviewsonstylisticinfluenceshavebeendrivenbypositionssuchasthe“arthistorywithoutnames”,assumingthatstyleexistsbeyondtheindividualgeniusandisrepresentativeforaspecificcultureataspecifictime.Computationalapproachestosuchconceptionsofstylisticinfluenceswouldcallforadvancedimageanalysismethodsallowingtodirectlyextractpatternsofstyleandtheirmutualinteractionsfromtheartworksthemselves.Whilesuchmethodswillcertainlyinfluencearthistoryresearchinfuture,itisneverthelessofinteresttoanalyzetheexistinghistoriographyaboutartstylesandperiodsforitshigh-levelstructureandexplorebird’seyevisualizationsofdevelopmentsrepresentedthere.

Theidentifiedcharacteristicsofthelarge-scale,multi-lingualWikipediabiographynetworkthusmotivatedtocombineitwithadditionalinformationaboutartandarchitectureperiodsandstyles,whichwasrealizedasabipartitenetworkconsistingonlyoflinksbetweenbiographiesandmulti-lingualWikipediaarticlesreferencedfrom426distinctWikidataentriessuchas“Renaissance”or”Cubism”.Theunderlyingassumptionwasthatalargeenoughdatasetofsuchlinkswouldyieldacontiguousstructureofstylesinterlinkedviabiographies,featuringachronologicalsuccessionasfoundforthebiographicalnetworksalone.TheextractionofWikipediahyperlinksbetweenthe426identifiedstylearticlesandanyWikipediapersonbiographyfromthe50largestDBpedialanguageversionsresultedinacombineddatasetof145,079hyperlinksconnecting406oftheidentifiedstyleswith69,908persons.Onlyaboutaquarterofthelatterwereamongstthe40,000+ULANbiographiesmappedtoWikipedia,suggestingthestyle-basedidentificationtobeanalternativewaytofindart-historicallyrelevantpersonsintheencyclopedia.

Sincea firstvisualizationof thebipartitenetworkdidnot showanyapparentchronology, atemporalfilteringapproachliketheoneusedforthepersonnetworkswasconsidered.Asitturnedout,especiallythetemporaldistributionsofpersonslinkedtobroadstylisticperiodssuchasBaroqueorRenaissanceoftencoveredaverywiderangeacrosscenturiesandwerenotlimitedtoonlythepersonsaliveduringtheiractualduration.Thissuggestedtofilterthedatabyremoving,foreachstyle,thelinksfrompersonswhowerenotaliveduringitsactualhistoricalperiod,whichwascomplicatedbymissingbeginningandendingdatesinmanyoftheWikidatarecordsaboutstylesandrequiredtoderivethedurationsviathetemporaldistributionofinterlinkedpersonsinstead.Asimpleapproachwastoextract“peaks”inthetemporaldistributionsofpersonslinkedtoeachstyleandtochoosetheareaaroundthelargestpeakascandidateforitsactualduration.Unfortunately,thiswasveryimpreciseandfailedespeciallyfor“older”periodswhichweremoreoftenreferencedbyrecentbiographiesthanbythosefromtheirowntime,callingforanalternativeapproachtakingthegenerallyskewedtemporal

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distributionofpersonsintoaccount.Thissuggestedtocreateacontingencytabledividingstyle-personlinkcountsintorowsbystyleandcolumnsbyhalf-centuriesrepresentingtheroundedaverageofthebirthanddeathyears(mid-life-year)ofinterlinkedpersonsandtocalculatestandardizedresidualsasdescribedin(Agresti,2007).Foreachstyle,thehalf-centurywithhighestpositiveresidualanditsneighborhoodaboveacertainthresholdweredeterminedtobethestyle’sduration.

Table 1 illustrates this procedure for a dummy example. Four styles have differenttemporaldistributionsofpersonsinterlinkedwiththeminWikipedia.Foreachstyle,theleftmostvalue in eachcell represents theobservedcountof interlinkedpersonshavingtheir“mid-life-year”intherespectivehalf-century.Thecentervalueineachcellrepresentsthe expected count as derived from the marginal distributions (shown at the right andat the bottom of the Table), while the right value represents the resulting standardizedresidualderivedfromthedeviationbetweenobservedandexpectedcounts.Assumingathresholdofzero,theresidualsmarkedwithanasteriskshowthepeakinghalf-centuriesandtheirabove-thresholdneighborsdeterminingtheextracteddurationoftherespectivestyle.Thesecondrowshowsanexampleforastylehavingmorereferencesfromlaterbornpersonsthancontemporaries.Theresidual-basedapproachdeterminesthelowercountingcontemporaries tobedeviatingmoresignificantly fromexpectationand thus favors the“earlier”peaktorepresentthestyle’sduration.

After removing 31 styles whose temporal distribution never exceeded two person links perhalf-century,theresidual-basedapproachwasevaluatedagainstthecountbasedoneusingmanualannotationswithbeginningandenddatesfortheremainingsetof375styles.Linksbothfallingwithintheannotatedstyledurationandthedeterminedstyledurationwerecountedas“truepositives”,linksonlyfallingintotheformeras“falsenegatives”,thoseonlyintothelatteras”falsepositives”,thoseoutsidebothrangesas”truenegatives”.BothF1aswellasMCCmeasuresrankedtheresidual-basedapproachtoyieldbettercombinationsofprecisionandrecallandsuggestedaquitelowthresholdof0.33fordeterminingstandardizedresidualpeaksandtheirneighborhoods.Forthe375styleperiods,themanualannotationsandtheextractedbeginningandenddatesatleastoverlappedfor353ofthem,while22weremismatched.

Theextractedstyledurationswereusedtofilterthenetworktoareducedsetof93,197hyperlinksconnectingthe375styleswith55,499personsandasshowninFigure6,theprunednetworknowunfoldedintoanapproximatelychronologicalstructure.Asuccessionofstylesbecameclearlyvisible,startingwith(Pre-)Romanesqueartandarchitecture,continuingwithGothic,Renaissance,Mannerist,Baroquestylesuntilabouttheeraof(Neo)Classicism,wherethesuccessiondividedintorelativelydistinctstrands,thetoppartmainlyrepresentingarchitectural,thelowerpartfineartstyles.ThesetwostrandswereneverthelesscontinuouslyinterlinkedviastylessuchasArtNouveau,ArtDecoandBauhaus,whichappearedasbridgesbetweenthenowseparateddisciplines.TheregionbeneathBauhausalsocontainedtheothermodernartstylesfeaturedinBarr’s“DiagramofStylisticEvolutionfrom1890until1935”from(Barr,1986/1937),showingthatthedata-drivenversionderivedfromWikipediasuccessfullyputtheminalargerarthistoricalcontextandalsoincludedstyleswhichwere

Table 1. Determining stylistic periods via standardized residuals

1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950

Style 1 0/3.46/-2.35 0/5.35/-3 5/3.46/*1.04 10/5.35/*2.61 20/12.91/*2.9 5/9.45/-2 40

Style 2 10/3.38/*4.53 7/5.22/*1.01 5/3.38/*1.11 0/5.22/-2.95 12/12.59/-0.24 5/9.21/-1.91 39

Style 3 1/1.91/-0.75 10/2.94/*4.86 0/1.91/-1.59 5/2.94/1.42 6/7.1/-0.55 0/5.2/-2.87 22

Style 4 0/2.25/-1.76 0/3.48/-2.25 1/2.25/-0.98 2/3.48/-0.96 3/8.39/-2.54 20/6.14/*7.17 26

11 17 11 17 41 30 127

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notrepresentedinthescholarlyversion.Therightmostpartwasoccupiedbystylesrepresentingmorerecentpost-WWIIdevelopmentsinthearts.

UsingthepalettefromFigure1tocolorthepersonnodesbynationalityagainrevealedaseparatestrandofJapanesestylesatthebottomwhichmergedwiththemainstrandataround1900,butalsohighlightedotherstylestobemorehomogeneousregardingtheoriginofinterlinkedpersons,suchas“ArtsandCraftsMovement”,“Futurism”,“Modernisme”,“SchoolofParis”,“AbstractExpressionism”and“SocialistRealism”.EspeciallythelatterwasseparatedfromthemainbodyandcontainedmanyartistsnotfeaturedintheULAN,underliningthespecificfocusofthebiographiescollectedthere.Similarlydetachedandnotevendirectlyrelatedtoarthistory,“20th-centuryclassicalmusic”wasalsomarkedasartmovementinWikidataandthusincludedinthevisualization.Itsconnectionwiththemainbody reflects themutual influencebetweendifferentartisticdisciplinesand invites forfurtherexploration.

Bipartite ProjectionsThebipartiteperson-stylenetwork couldbe reduced to twounipartitenetworks, one connectingpairsofstylesvialinksweightedbythenumberofcommonlylinkedpersons,theotheroneviceversa,viabipartitenetworkprojectionasdescribedin(M.Newman,2010,p.123ff.).Especiallytheresultingstyle-stylenetworkwasofinteresttobestudiedinmoredetailbutasencounteredforthenationalitynetwork,itfeaturedafewstronglyinterconnectedstyleswhichmaskedpotentiallyrelevantinteractionsbetweenlessprominentstyles.Thiscalledforanotherapplicationofastandardized-residual-basedfilteringtechniqueandtheFDSMmethoddescribedin(Zweig&Kaufmann,2011)wasasuitableapproachforbipartiteprojections.Therequired10,000randombipartitenetworkscould be efficiently calculated using functions from the R library BiRewire, demonstrating thatavailablesoftwarecomponentsfromthedomainofBioinformaticscouldbestraight-forwardlyre-usedinculturalanalyticssettings.

The unipartite network of styles weighted by the FDSM-based standardized residuals wassubsequently filteredbypruningall style-style linkshavingstandardized residualweightsbelowthreeanditsresultingvisualizationisshowninFigure7.Clustersofdenselyinterconnectedstyles

Figure 6. Pruned bipartite network of art and architecture styles linked via biographies, the latter colored by nationality

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wereidentifiedviatheLouvainclusteringmethodandareshownindifferentcolorsintheFigure,theygenerallyappearedtofollowachronologicalorder:Fromlefttoright,theclustersstartedwithagroupofRomanesque/Gothic/Renaissanceartsandarchitecturestyles(green)whichblendedintoagroupofBaroque/Classiciststyles(purple)whoseendataround1800againmarkedtheseparationof tworelativelydistinctstrandofgroupsof19th(red)and20th/21stcentury(yellow)architecturestylesatthebottomandgroupsof19th(cyan),early20thmodernist(orange)andpostwar/21stcentury(blue)artstylesatthetop.Incontrasttotheimmediatevisualizationoftheperson-stylenetworkinFigure6,therepresentationoftheprojectedandstatisticallyfilteredstyle-stylenetworksuggestedthatmodernismrepresentedaperiodwhereartandarchitectureapproximatedeachotheraftertheirlongphaseofseparation,justtobefollowedbymorerecentdevelopmentsthroughoutwhichtheyappearedtodriftapartagain.

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Asfarasdata-basedvisualizationsofarthistoricaldevelopmentsareconcerned,amaindistinctioncanbedrawnbetweenformalistandsocial-context-orientedconceptionsofarthistoricalprocesses.Approachestowardstheformerincludetheclusteringofartworksbyimagefeaturessuchasdominantcolor,saturationandbrightness,discussedin(Manovich,2015),whilemorerecentworksuchasdescribedin(Elgammal,Mazzone,Liu,Kim,&Elhoseiny,2018)appliedcontemporarymachine-learningmethodstoextractstylisticrelationshipsbetweenartworksbasedonWölfflin’sseminalworkonstylisticpatterns.Potentiallylocatedbetweenformalistandsocial-contextapproaches,visualizationsofmetadatacollectionsoftencontainaspectsfromboth.VisualizingitemsfromtheTatecollectionmetadata,theworkpresentedin(BoydDavis&Kräutli,2014)forexamplediscussedthebenefitsofusingvisualmeanstonavigatelargemuseumcollectionsacrossdifferentdimensions.Regardingsocialcontext,(Schichetal.,2014)presentedvisualizedpatternsofmigrationviapersonsfeaturedintheULAN,providinganinterestingviewonarthistoricaldevelopmentsfromthisperspective.Morerecentworkfromthesamefirstauthorandotherspresentedin(Schich,Huemer,Adamczyk,Manovich,&Liu,2017)usednetworkvisualizationtoshowbuyer-sellerinteractionsatdifferentgeographiclocationsderivedfromtheGettyProvenanceIndex.VisualizationsoftheULANassociativelinknetworkfocusingonegonetworksaroundsinglepersonsselectedfromtheULANwereusedinearlyworkinthecontextofculturalwebportalssuchasCultureSampo,describedin(Kurki&Hyvönen,2009)andforconstructingvirtualmuseumlandscapessuchasdescribedin(Goldfarb,Arends,Froschauer,&Merkl,2011).BiographicalnetworksonWikipedianotspecificallyfocusedonarthistoryhavebeendiscussedandcomparedacrossdifferentlanguageversionsinworkssuchaspresentedin(Aragon,Laniado,Kaltenbrunner,&Volkovich,2012)andin(Eometal.,2015).Whilethelatterdidnotusevisualizationsofthenetworkfortheircomparison,theformerpresented

Figure 7. Projection of pruned person-style network between art and architecture styles

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aviewonthenetworkofWikipediabiographiessimultaneouslypresentinmultiplelanguages,thushighlightingtheiragreementandnottheirdifferences.Moreover,aspectsregardingthechronologicalstructureofthenetworkwerenotconsidered.Theworkpresentedin(Samoilenkoetal.,2016)studiedanetworkofWikipedialanguageversionsbasedoncommonlyfeaturedtopics,revealingsignificantclustersofrelatedlanguageversionsappearingtofollowsocio-culturalcommonalities,forwhichtheauthorsidentifiedbilingualityandsharedreligiontobethedrivingfactors.

CoNCLUSIoN

ThisworkpresentedvisualizationsofbiographicalnetworksofimportantpersonsfromarthistoryaspresentintheGettyULANandininterlinkedbiographiesindifferentWikipedialanguageversions.Their mutual comparison with each other and with existing scholarly examples revealed bothsimilaritiesbasedonthecommoncanonofarthistoryaswellasdifferencesduetopresentinstitutionalandculturalbiases,thelatterespeciallybecomingvisibleinthevaryingcoverageofnationalitiesin different Wikipedia language versions. The analysis of the aggregated network of interlinkednationalities revealedhigh level interactionsbetweencultureswhichappeared tobeclusteredbysocio-historicalboundariessuchascolonialismandthechangingextentofhistoricalempires.Theextractionandvisualizationof abipartitenetworkofbiographies andart andarchitecture stylesintroducedanadditionalperspectiveonarthistoryonWikipediaandenabledtogobeyondtheULANassourceforidentifyingrelevantpersons.ThisrevealedinterestingdifferencesincoveragesuchastheexclusivepresenceofmanyUSSRartistsintheRussianWikipedia,forwhichnocorrespondingULANrecordscouldbeidentified.Overall,theresultssuggestedthatlargeenoughnumbersofinterlinkedbiographiesanddescriptionsofstylesandperiodscanbeusedtoconstructlarge-scaleviewsonarthistoricaldevelopments,buttheavailabledatasourcesmustbehandledwithcareduetoidentifiedbiases.Initiallyintendedasnavigationalaidsforvirtualartcollections,suchviewscanthusalsobeusedastooltorevealtheselectivecoverageofindividualculturalheritagedatasets.Asshownfortheanalysisofthemulti-lingualWikipedianetworks,theculturallyspecificfociofindividualdatasetscanbeleveragedforthegoodbyunitingtheminaconsolidateddatasetrepresentingmorethanthemeresumofitsparts,potentiallyleadingtomoreglobalviewsonculturaldevelopments.

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