Collections: API

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
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    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
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    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
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    Luce Center for American Art

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The Sumerian culture in Iraq, established in the third millennium b.c., was one of the world’s earliest civilizations. It reached a he...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Head of the God Osiris

    Most sculptures of deities, including the countless images of Osiris made during the Late and Ptolemaic Periods, were smaller than the statu...

     

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    Art Finder
    April 25, 2012 2:42pm
    Art Finder used our API to bring 2000+ collection objects into their database.  read more...
    Google Art Project
    April 3, 2012 2:38pm
    Staff at Google Art Project utilized our API to populate Brooklyn Museum records with collection data.  read more...
    The Art Bridge
    June 30, 2011 2:48pm
    The Art Bridge is a Robert Gordon University project, and was created by Frances A Buchanan in association with Horacio Gonzalez-Velez. The project aims to re-organize fine art information in a more artist-centric way and uses the Brooklyn Museum API.  read more...
    Art Collections iPad App
    May 5, 2011 11:41am
    Developer Wayne Bishop releases the Art Collections iPad App, which uses objects from our collection. Read more about it on our blog.  read more...
    Reciprocal Research Network
    December 17, 2010 10:39am
    Objects from the museum's Northwest Coast collection have been added to the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN), an innovative online tool to facilitate reciprocal and collaborative research about cultural heritage from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. The RRN enables communities, cultural institutions and researchers to work together.   read more...
    Geo Locations
    May 12, 2010 5:53pm
    Get a list of the geographical locations represented by our collection using the new collection.getGeoLocations method. Insert the returned geolocation.code values into collection.search calls to get the list of objects in those locations.  read more...
    OAI-PMH
    March 31, 2010 12:29pm
    All object data now available via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Separate api key registration required.  read more...
    CDWA-Lite and Dublin Core
    February 5, 2010 10:30am
    For those of you who like metadata standards, format can now be set to "cdwalite" or "dublincore" to retrieve OBJECT responses formatted to those alternate schemas.  read more...
    Search by Rights Type
    January 12, 2010 3:53pm
    Added collection.getRightsTypes method and a new rights_type parameter to collection.search to support querying the collection's refined rights statements  read more...
    iPhone Application v1.3 Released
    August 6, 2009 3:28pm
    Version 1.3 (link opens iTunes) ready for download in the iTunes store.  Fixes are detailed in this blog post.  read more...
    iPhone Application v1.0 Released
    May 30, 2009 7:00pm
    Apple releases Developer Adam Shackelford's Brooklyn Museum iPhone app into the Apple store as a free download.  Download version 1.0 (link opens iTunes).  read more...
    Search Improvements
    April 27, 2009 3:21pm
    Three improvements to collection.search: New collection_id parameter added to collection.search to enable filtering by collection (for valid collection IDs see collection.getCollections); sort your results using new sort_field and sort_direction params; to improve relevance, keyword searches now match only complete terms by default. Follow your term with a * to match incomplete terms.  read more...
    iPhone Application
    April 24, 2009 12:42pm
    Developer Adam Shackelford has created an iPhone app, which is soon to be released in the Apple store as a free download.  More about this on our blog.  read more...
    Museum API Wiki
    April 17, 2009 7:49pm
    Looking for more information on museum APIs? Check out this wiki "for sharing, discussing, arguing (nicely) over and hopefully coming to some common agreements on APIs and data schemas for museum collections."  read more...
    Visit methods
    April 16, 2009 11:38am
    In response to a developer's request, we've added three simple new methods to get basic visiting information including hours, contact details, and directions.
    Artists' Materials
    April 15, 2009 10:15am
    Caroline Brown is working with the API to look at variety of artists’ materials listed under each object’s “medium” attribute.  read more...
    Python Module
    April 15, 2009 8:12am
    Mark Matienzo is working on a Python module that uses our API to retrieve images and data about the collection.  read more...
    Picture Book Mashup
    March 10, 2009 7:51pm
    Chris Wallace integrated Brooklyn Museum data his dbpedia-based picture-book mashup, which includes data from Flickr, Wikipedia, and now the Brooklyn Museum. Chris is using XQuery running on eXist XML db using the dbpedia SPARQL interface.  read more...
    Brooklyn Browser
    March 9, 2009 7:38pm
    David Wilkinson has created a Flash-based browser, written using Adobe Flex, to provide a simple interface to search objects in our collection.  Brooklyn Browser can be accessed on Dave's site and you can read more about it at indicommons.org.  read more...
    crossdomain.xml added
    March 8, 2009 4:51pm
    crossdomain.xml added to allow API access from Flash/Flex applications
    More Object Data
    March 6, 2009 4:37pm
    Added collection, museum location, and geographical locations to object responses. See object and geolocation docs for details.
    Yahoo Pipes
    March 5, 2009 4:50pm
    Piotr Adamczyk is working with our API and Yahoo Pipes.  Piotr is documenting all his findings on his blog, so check it out for the latest information and examples.  read more...
    API Release
    March 4, 2009 4:48pm
    Brooklyn Museum Collection API released.  Read more about it.  read more...