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APIdays Paris 2019 - The MET: Art, APIs and Global Access by Maria Kessler, The Metropolitan Museum, NYC

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The MET: Art, APIs and Global Access Maria Kessler, Digital Partnerships at The Metropolitan Museum, NYC

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The Met: Art, APIs and Global Access December 10, 2019 Maria Kessler, Digital Partnerships The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art at The Met 2
Met Collection Numbers • Over 1.5 million total objects in collection • 480,000 objects online; 670,000 images online • 440,000 public domain images online • 4% of collection is on view • 17 curatorial departments • Largest collection is Drawings and Prints. Estimated 1 million+ objects. Cataloguing is ongoing 3
Scaling the Mission for Open Access • Most accessible, discoverable, and useful collection on the Internet • Global reach and new audiences • Partnerships and platforms • Promote collection use in other projects and resources 4
5 • Github (+ documentation) • Over 205,000 distinct art object images with over 406,000 images • Data fields for 470,000+ art objects (both CC0 and copyrighted works) • Subject keyword data set (added Feb. 2019) • Periodic updates Met Collection API
API integration with Google Arts & Culture 6
• Using AI to spark global connections to art Met x Microsoft x MIT 7 Global Access
8 AI Prototypes
AI Prototypes
10 ArtExplorer Proof of Concept Bing visual search skill Additional API projects with Microsoft https://www.bing.com/visualsearch/skills
Using the API with Pinterest
Academic Collaborations
Academic Collaborations Tensor Flow (tfhub) and GitHub
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Creative Commons API integration
API Endpoints All Object Data Object IDs Keyword Search Departments Artist or Culture Medium Geography Date Collection API • Image URLS are for public domain images only. • Data is refreshed nightly. https://metmuseum.github.io/ 16
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APIdays Paris 2019 - The MET: Art, APIs and Global Access by Maria Kessler, The Metropolitan Museum, NYC

  • 1. The Met: Art, APIs and Global Access December 10, 2019 Maria Kessler, Digital Partnerships The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • 2. Art at The Met 2
  • 3. Met Collection Numbers • Over 1.5 million total objects in collection • 480,000 objects online; 670,000 images online • 440,000 public domain images online • 4% of collection is on view • 17 curatorial departments • Largest collection is Drawings and Prints. Estimated 1 million+ objects. Cataloguing is ongoing 3
  • 4. Scaling the Mission for Open Access • Most accessible, discoverable, and useful collection on the Internet • Global reach and new audiences • Partnerships and platforms • Promote collection use in other projects and resources 4
  • 5. 5 • Github (+ documentation) • Over 205,000 distinct art object images with over 406,000 images • Data fields for 470,000+ art objects (both CC0 and copyrighted works) • Subject keyword data set (added Feb. 2019) • Periodic updates Met Collection API
  • 6. API integration with Google Arts & Culture 6
  • 7. • Using AI to spark global connections to art Met x Microsoft x MIT 7 Global Access
  • 10. 10 ArtExplorer Proof of Concept Bing visual search skill Additional API projects with Microsoft https://www.bing.com/visualsearch/skills
  • 11. Using the API with Pinterest
  • 14. 14
  • 15. Creative Commons API integration
  • 16. API Endpoints All Object Data Object IDs Keyword Search Departments Artist or Culture Medium Geography Date Collection API • Image URLS are for public domain images only. • Data is refreshed nightly. https://metmuseum.github.io/ 16
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Editor's Notes

  1. 10% exhibition history 20% bibliography 86% provenance 30% labels 70% images
  2. Launched October 2018 – To make The Met Open Access collection accessible and discoverable to organizations and people around the world. Subject keyword dataset - specifically created for the museum’s art objects
  3. Cleo site – pulling information from various museums onto 1 site