Linked Art Cook Book - Data Sources

Introduction

Open data sources that would be beneficial to map and transform into Linked Art.

Authorities

• Getty
  • Getty vocabularies
  • Cultural Objects Name Authority Online (CONA)
  • Union List of Artist Names® Online (ULAN)
  • Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online (AAT) Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® Online (TGN)
• Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress Linked Data Service
• OCLC
  • OCLC

Museums and Galleries

• List of Museums and Galleries Open Data Resources
  • List of GLAM Open Access projects - Awesome OpenAccess
• Data files
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - collection data
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access (GitHub)
  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Data (GitHub)
  • Harvard Art Museums API Documentation
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Collection Data (GitHub)
  • National Gallery of Art Open Data
  • Smithsonian Open Access Metadata Repository (Github) - in transition
• APIs
  • Art Institute of Chicago
    • Art Institute of Chicago Data Aggregator (GitHub)
    • Art Institute of Chicago API documentation
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art API
  • Smithsonian Institution
    • Smithsonian public API via api.data.gov
  • The Walters Art Museum
    • Walters Art Museum Collections API - documentation
    • Walters Art Museum API

Other Transformations

• Wikidata
  • Wikidata - homepage

Aggregations of the above

• Europeana
  • Europeana - homepage
• ArtUK
  • Art UK - homepage