Data and datasets

What is data?

• Video The joy of data Hannah Fry on BBC Four (3min)
• Website What is data by Wikidata

Datasets to explore

• materialarchiv.ch Database of all kinds of materials with pictures (squared)
• Kaggle Datasets Machine Learning & Data science community with many open datasets
• Wikidata
• Flickr Photo sharing website, filter by licence
• Projekt Gutenberg Digitalised old books, mostly in German

Museums with open databases

• Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
• V&A London
• Smithsonian Open Access
• MET Museum NYC
• Dutch institute for Sound and Vision
• Vikus Viewer

Working with data and APIs

• In Javascript:
  • Working with data and APIs CodingTrain Series by Daniel Shiffman

Scraping

• Python library Beautiful Soup

Responsible data practices

• PDF Responsible AI art field guide by Lia Coleman, Emily Saltz and Claire Leibowicz
• Public Cryptdoc “Critical Art and the Ethics of AI” by Marco Donnarumma, Wesley Goatley, Helena Nikonole
• Talk How to use AI for your art responsibly by Lia Coleman, Emily Saltz and Claire Leibowicz
• Project Humans of AI by Philipp Schmitt
• Essay Excavating AI about the ImageNet dataset by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen
• Article The furry drama by Gizmodo

Copyright

• Wikipedia entry about Regelschutzfrist
• Tweet A wikidata query to get authors whose work is in the public domain