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Artsdata Place Types Controlled Vocabulary

Concept scheme adr:ArtsdataPlaceTypes
Version 1.0.1
Release date February 2026

This page outlines the controlled vocabulary used in the Artsdata knowledge graph to describe place types in the arts sector. It classifies places according to their design, function and scope. It notably makes a distinction between entire buildings and interior spaces within buildings.

This controlled vocabulary is largely inspired by the typology of the Wikidata WikiProject Cultural venues. It imports concepts from Wikidata, the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Nomenclature and Schema. The concept adr:PerformanceHall is equivalent to the Room class, in Datascène.

Place Types

The list of types (SKOS concepts) can be viewed in the concept scheme, in this spreadsheet, or in the table below.

CURI Preferred label Exact match Close match
adr:PlaceConcept Concept of a place schema:Place  
adr:CultureRecreationalStructure Cultural & Recreational Structures nom:659, aat:300424157  
adr:CivicSocialStructure Civic & Social Structures nom:597  
adr:EventVenue Event venue wd:Q18674739 schema:EventVenue
adr:Complex Complex aat:300000202, wd:Q1497364  
adr:Structure Built work aat:300265418, wd:Q811979  
adr:Building Building wd:Q41176, dbpedia:Building, aat:300004792  
adr:InteriorSpace Interior space aat:300133704 wd:Q1299240, schema:Room
adr:PerformanceHall Performance hall wd:Q112688641 aat:300449028
adr:ItalianTheatre Italian theatre wd:Q18225059  
adr:ConcertHall Concert hall wd:Q10547643  
adr:ComedyClub Comedy club wd:Q2814066  
adr:BlackBox Black box theatre wd:Q201946  
adr:TheatreInTheRound Theatre in the round wd:Q7777493  
adr:Cabaret Cabaret wd:Q131183, aat:300007099  
adr:RehearsalSpace Rehearsal room wd:Q1420179  
adr:MeetingSpace Meeting room wd:Q133821658 aat:300004398, schema:MeetingRoom
adr:ExhibitionSpace Exhibition space wd:Q15206795, aat:300240057  
adr:PerformingArtsBuilding Performing arts building wd:Q57660343, aat:300132484  
adr:TheatreBuilding Theatre building wd:Q24354, aat:300007117  
adr:OperaHouse Opera house wd:Q153562, aat:300007104  
adr:Amphitheatre Amphitheatre wd:Q54831, aat:300007128  
adr:PerformingArtsCentre Performing arts centre wd:Q3469910  
adr:MusicVenue Music venue wd:Q8719053, schema:MusicVenue  
adr:NightClub Night club wd:Q622425  
adr:MovieTheatre Movie theatre wd:Q41253, aat:300007135, schema:MovieTheater  
adr:CulturalCentre Cultural centre aat:300005135 wd:Q1329623
adr:CommunityCentre Community centre aat:300005120 wd:Q77115
adr:HouseOfCulture House of culture wd:Q5061188  
adr:ConventionCentre Convention centre wd:Q1378975  
adr:Library Library wd:Q856584, aat:300006824, nom:614  
adr:SportsVenue Sports venue wd:Q1076486  
adr:Stadium Stadium wd:Q483110  
adr:Arena Arena wd:Q641226  
adr:OpenAirEventVenue Open air event venue wd:Q117187730  
adr:FairGround Fair ground wd:Q2948561  
adr:ExhibitionBuilding Exhibition building nom:668  
adr:MuseumBuilding Museum building wd:Q24699794, aat:300005768, nom:672  
adr:ArtGallery Art gallery aat:300005232 wd:Q1007870, schema:ArtGallery
adr:ReligiousBuilding Religious building wd:Q16970, aat:300007391 nom:585

How to use

The Artsdata Place Type Controlled Vocabulary can be populated with the schema:additionalType property, along with the generic schema:Place class as the main type. Thus, a place entity in Artsdata can both have the type schema:Place, and have an additional type from the Artsdata Event Controlled Vocabulary using the schema:additionalType property.

Here is an example in Turtle in JSON-LD:

"@context":"http://schema.org",
"@type": "Place",
"additionalType": "http://kg.artsdata.ca/resource/PerformanceHall"