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This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2023.

As a multilingual knowledge base of everything in the universe, Wikidata holds a lot of potential for storing and sharing information about Indigenous practices, artists, and their works. Further, with the advancement of AI, it’s more vital than ever that we integrate artist and event information in order to build a capacity for retrieving and displaying events featuring Indigenous artists and organizations. Representing Indigenous identities in Wikidata accurately and respectfully could be possible but is not simple. However, in order to realize this potential, some specific changes are needed to accommodate the nuances and complexities of Indigenous identities and practices. This report explores how identifying and descriptive information about Indigenous artists can be represented as linked open data. To this effect, this project identifies several recommendations for the Wikidata community.

Presentation:

• File:Indigenous Artists and Wikidata - WikiConference North America.pdf

Other resources:

• New Report Paves the Way for Better Representation of Indigenous Artists (blog post announcing the report on the Linked Digital Future website);
• Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report (full report in English on Library and Archives Canada);
• Les artistes autochtones et Wikidata : rapport d’exploration et de consultation (rapport complet sur le site de Bibliothèque et archives Canada);
• Cover page and other media files on Wikimedia Commons.