Every entity and source in the Skira Knowledge Base is editorially vetted. This panel exposes the certification status, embedding coverage, recent ingestion activity, the editorial review queue and the versioning timeline.
Knowledge Base · Coverage
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Entities by kind
Sources by section
Editorial Review Queue
Demo · workflow disabled
Add monograph: Pierre Soulages — Outrenoir (2024 edition)
publication · submitted by C. Ferrari · 2 days ago
pending
Disambiguate entity: 'Giorgio Morandi' (artist vs. publication)
entity merge · submitted by auto-pipeline · 5 days ago
auto-extracted
Update movement scope: Transavanguardia — add Mimmo Paladino link
edge · submitted by L. Bianchi · 1 week ago
pending
Source missing: 'Skira Mini Artbook — Klimt' exhibition catalogue ref.
source · submitted by QA bot · 1 week ago
needs-source
Recent ingestion · Skira-certified ✓
Knowledge Base · Versioning
v2.4 · Semantic embeddings rollout
May 2026 — Multilingual e5-small embeddings generated for all 314 entities, 201 sources and 99 themes.
v2.3 · Contemporary artists expansion
March 2026 — 14 contemporary artists ingested from the Skira Editore 2024–2025 catalogue.
v2.2 · Touring exhibitions linked
January 2026 — Exhibition entities cross-linked with publication monographs and movement nodes.
v2.1 · Initial Skira corpus ingestion
November 2025 — Bootstrap from skira-arte.com: 100 years of editorial scholarship indexed.
Ontology
The Skira knowledge graph is a typed ontology. Every node has a kind, every link a meaning. This is what the language model reads when it answers a query.
Entity kinds
publication — Skira book or catalogue
e.g. monograph on Lucio Fontana, Skira 2014
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artist — Author of an oeuvre
e.g. Boccioni, Morandi, Anish Kapoor
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movement — Art-historical movement
e.g. Futurism, Arte Povera, Transavanguardia
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period — Historical period / century
e.g. Quattrocento, XX century, contemporary
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place — Geographic / institutional locus
e.g. Venice, Milan, Centre Pompidou
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Edge kinds (typed relations)
authored_by
this publication is authored by / written about this artist
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about
this publication discusses this movement
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belongs_to_period
this publication or artist is rooted in this period
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located_in
this publication or exhibition is set in this place
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part_of_movement
this artist participates in this movement
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Every entity, source and theme is stored together with a 384-dimensional multilingual embedding (e5-small). The LLM retrieves via cosine similarity, then walks the typed edges above to assemble a citation chain — never raw text only.