Way Cool!
From a business model perspective, museums have always
been in a good
position to publish open data since it is all about getting
donations,
getting people in the door and the various cultural tie-ups.
The blog does point out another issue which is that museum people have long
been rigorous about metadata despite having metadata problems more
difficult than (say) libraries since most of the things that have aren't
serial objects. They made the decision to publish uncurated records and
mark them as such and that makes a lot of sense.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The Museum of Modern Art of New York has published a
CSV on GitHub
containing the data of its entire collection under a CC0 license.
https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection
They have blogged about it.
https://medium.com/digital-moma/thousands-of-exhausted-things-or-why-we-ded…
"This data release <https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection>
includes all of the works that have been both accessioned into MoMA’s
collection *and* cataloged in our database. It includes basic data for
each work, including title, artist, date made, medium, dimensions, and date
acquired by the Museum."
"MoMA’s open data is primarily intended to be useful to scholars, so it
was important to make each version citable."
"*Thanks to the **Cooper-Hewitt*
<https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection>* and **Tate*
<https://github.com/tategallery/collection>* for paving the way by
releasing their own collection data on GitHub using CC0. Thanks also to
George Oates (**@goodformand* <https://twitter.com/goodformand>*) for
reassuring us that a CSV is not just the easiest way to start but probably
the most accessible format for a broad audience of researchers, artists,
and designers."*
They actually produced a live, on-site performance about the data
released, and blogged about it:
https://medium.com/@blprnt/a-sort-of-joy-1d9d5ff02ac9
"This release of open data by MoMA is by no means revolutionary. Two years
ago the Tate Modern released its own collection on GitHub
<https://github.com/tategallery/collection>. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
has not only released its data (images and all), it has also built an API
<https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api> to allow anyone easy access to it. In
2013 the British Museum released 1,000,000 images
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/page1> under a Creative
Commons license."
Anyway, this might not be big or surprising news to those of you following
closely this scene. I just found amusing to learn accidentally about this
the day that Wiki Loves Open Data has started taking shape in a wiki page.
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