Meta-Wiki v1

Systems

The semantic layer turns the site into a small knowledge graph: works, concepts, sources, institutions, viewers, revisions, and citations linked as the first form of the meta-museum.

Visible graph

Ten Nodes

This graph is deliberately small. Its purpose is to establish a repeatable grammar for future works: stable IDs, node types, and relations that can be expanded into a fuller Meta-Wiki.

Ten-node Metaconceptual Art knowledge graph A graph connecting site, artworks, concepts, source, institution, viewer, provenance, revision, and citation. site works concept system source museum viewer revision citation record

Node register

Stable IDs, Linked Open Data

Each node has a stable site ID. Where a node names a real concept, movement, or figure, it is grounded in a Wikidata identifier and, for art-domain nodes, the Getty vocabularies — ULAN for people, AAT for concepts — so the museum connects outward to both the general and the art-specific linked-data graph. The full register lives in data/graph.json.

ID Type Name Relation Linked open data
work:site-as-artwork Artwork The Website Itself contains proposition set
work:eight-sentences Artwork Eight Sentences cites source:lewitt
work:construction-museum Artwork Construction of the Museum as Concept expresses concept:institutional-frame
concept:conceptual-art Concept Conceptual art expressed by the work Q203209 AAT 300264827
concept:institutional-frame Concept Institutional critique frames value Q6041145
concept:systems-art Concept Systems art informs concept:knowledge-graph Q919251 AAT 300047869
concept:net-art Concept Internet art sites the website Q1569950 AAT 300419940
concept:readymade Concept Found object / readymade influences concept:conceptual-art Q572916 AAT 300047210
concept:knowledge-graph Concept Knowledge graph form of the meta-museum Q33002955
concept:provenance Concept Provenance tracked by the system Q1773840 AAT 300055863
source:lewitt Source Sol LeWitt informs sentence sequence Q168587 ULAN 500115429
source:kosuth Source Joseph Kosuth art as inquiry into art Q313113 ULAN 500115645
source:duchamp Source Marcel Duchamp designation and the readymade Q5912 ULAN 500115393
role:viewer Role Viewer activates meaning
record:revision-2026-06-19 Revision Wikidata Layer grounds nodes in linked data
record:citation-primary Citation Recommended Citation makes the work referenceable

Beyond the museum walls

Connected To The Wider Graph

The museum is not a closed building. Its anchor concepts are grounded in Wikidata, the same open knowledge base that art history, museums, and search engines draw on. From those anchors the graph reaches outward into the shared record of art.