Data Entry meets API Synergy
Didactics from exhibitions are now going online as well. We managed to get a stash of these from our Design Department going back seven years, so after a monster round of data entry in every spare moment of my time, you can find 530 didactics for 109 exhibitions and we’ll continue to upload them as we get them.
Exhibition didactic from Caillebotte—now online under the didactics tab.
Brooklyn Museum objects in exhibitions. Paul with the help of our Collections Manager, Chrisy, has hooked up the collections database to the Exhibition Archive and we can now list Brooklyn Museum objects that were in these shows. This is a long project data entry project that we’ve just begun, but you can see the seeds of this taking root in records like Caillebotte (below), Tissot and Brushed With Light.
New York Times API synergy. Our hometown paper is the NYT and, luckily, they’ve created an API which means we can access their data. Paul has worked to match up related NYT articles with our exhibition archive and that means we can display stubs and links to NYT reviews, listings and other fun things under the press tab. Currently the NYT Article Search API only goes back to 1981, but we hope they will release the entire archive eventually—with records in our exhibition archive going back to 1843, you can imagine how many matches we could have one day. The great thing about utilizing an API? No data entry!
Come together now. To see all of this work in one place, check out the record for Tissot. We’ve got installation photos, didactics, the press release, the NYT press coverage and 124 of the Brooklyn Museum objects in the show…along with all of their object labels. Whew!
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Derek Gottfrid:
December 15th, 2009 at 9:56 am
This is a great use of our NYTimes.com Article Search API. I am a big fan of leveraging technology in museums. Congrats a fantastic job all around. (and yes eventually we will have the entire back catalog of articles available)
Shelley Bernstein:
December 15th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Thanks, Derek – glad to know that back catalog is coming! We geek out over here on your open blog!
Maggie:
December 17th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
The link of the exhibition archive to the collections database is a great idea.
So, on the online exhibition archive you can see which BM objects were in the show. Does the data go the other way as well, meaning are you also adding this exhibition info to the individual object records in the collection database?
shelley:
December 17th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
We will be eventually, but that will happen with some other changes down the road.
Local Treasures and the Article Search API - First Look Blog - NYTimes.com:
December 24th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
[...] week, the Brooklyn Museum blog featured a post about recent efforts to digitize the museum’s wealth of data, such as object labels and [...]
Local Treasures and the Article Search API - First Look Blog - NYTimes.com:
December 24th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
[...] week, the Brooklyn Museum blog featured a post about recent efforts to digitize the museum’s wealth of data, such as object labels and [...]
emily:
March 27th, 2010 at 6:32 am
Brooklyn Museum objects in exhibitions information is soo nice i really love reading your blog and enjoy too, pictures are really nice so clear and the information is just too good.