Collections: API: News

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
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    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
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    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
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    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Bowl with Flaring Sides

The Bowl with Flaring Sides is a superb example of the white wares with transparent ivory white or straw-colored glazes produced at the Ding...

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: Hairpin

Ivory’s value results from its scarcity, as well as its association with the elephant, a symbol of power and strength. Ivory bracelets...

 

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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...
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