Collections: API: OAI

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Power Figure (Nkishi)

While Western collectors value the visual impact of power figures, the ultimate importance of these sculptures to the Songye lies in their e...

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: Still Life, Gladiolas

    Chaim Soutine’s passion for painting led him from a Lithuanian Jewish ghetto in modern Belarus to the art academies of Minsk and, ulti...

     

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    Brooklyn Museum Posse:
    Exploring the collection

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    Brooklyn Museum object data is available via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Harvesters are required to carefully read the OAI Guidelines for Harvester Implementers.

    Note that special api-keys are required. You must use a special OAI-enabled api-key to harvest. If you have an existing API key, you'll need to re-register for an alternate OAI key. We regret putting up this barrier but we feel api-keys are necessary to mitigate abuse. Go here to request a special OAI api-key.

    To access the respository, use the following base URL:

    http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/oai.pmh.php?api-key=[Your API Key]

    The complete protocol specification should be reviewed before beginning work. If you're just curious what responses look like, use the test forms below:

    Identify

    Retrieve various information about the repository

    ListMetadataFormats

    Retrieve list of valid metadata formats that the repository supports.

    ListSets

    Retrieve list of sets that the repository uses to segment records.

    resumptionToken
    Allows resumption of incomplete list requests. The presense of a resumptionToken value in a response indicates the list is incomplete. The resumptionToken value should be submitted with the verb and api_key to retrieve the next 100 records. See the OAI-PMH notes on flow control.

    ListIdentifiers

    Retrieve record headers.

    metadataPrefix
    Specify the metadata format to return.
    from
    A UTCdatetime value, optionally used to retrieve records whose datestamp is greater than or equal to the indicated time. (e.g. 2010-01-21Z08:08:22Z)
    until
    A UTCdatetime value, optionally used to retrieve records whose datestamp is less than or equal to the indicated time. (e.g. 2010-01-21T10:09:25Z)
    set
    Optional setSpec value to retrieve only records that belong to the indicated set. Issue a ListSets call to retrieve all valid setSpec values. (e.g. objects:asian_art)
    resumptionToken
    Allows resumption of incomplete list requests. The presense of a resumptionToken value in a response indicates the list is incomplete. The resumptionToken value should be submitted with the verb and api_key to retrieve the next 100 records. See the OAI-PMH notes on flow control.

    ListRecords

    Retrieve records.

    metadataPrefix
    Specify the metadata format to return.
    from
    A UTCdatetime value, optionally used to retrieve records whose datestamp is greater than or equal to the indicated time. (e.g. 2010-01-21Z08:08:22Z)
    until
    A UTCdatetime value, optionally used to retrieve records whose datestamp is less than or equal to the indicated time. (e.g. 2010-01-21T10:09:25Z)
    set
    Optional setSpec value to retrieve only records that belong to the indicated set. Issue a ListSets call to retrieve all valid setSpec values. (e.g. objects:asian_art)
    resumptionToken
    Allows resumption of incomplete list requests. The presense of a resumptionToken value in a response indicates the list is incomplete. The resumptionToken value should be submitted with the verb and api_key to retrieve the next 100 records. See the OAI-PMH notes on flow control.

    GetRecord

    Retrieve records.

    metadataPrefix
    Specify the metadata format to return.
    identifier
    The unique identifier of the record (e.g. o-1)
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