Brooklyn Museum: API

August 6, 2009iPhone Application v1.3 Released
Version 1.3 (link opens iTunes) ready for download in the iTunes store. Fixes are detailed in this blog post.

May 30, 2009iPhone Application v1.0 Released
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).

April 27, 2009Search Improvements
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.

April 24, 2009iPhone Application
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.

April 17, 2009Museum API Wiki
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."

April 16, 2009Visit methods
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.

April 15, 2009Artists' Materials
Caroline Brown is working with the API to look at variety of artists’ materials listed under each object’s “medium” attribute.

April 15, 2009Python Module
Mark Matienzo is working on a Python module that uses our API to retrieve images and data about the collection.

March 10, 2009Picture Book Mashup
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.

March 9, 2009Brooklyn Browser
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.

March 8, 2009crossdomain.xml added
crossdomain.xml added to allow API access from Flash/Flex applications

March 6, 2009More Object Data
Added collection, museum location, and geographical locations to object responses. See object and geolocation docs for details.

March 5, 2009Yahoo Pipes
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.

March 4, 2009API Release
Brooklyn Museum Collection API released. Read more about it.

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