Wikidata:GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dashboards for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access project

Overview

Structure

All objects

Timeline of Art History

Timeline inventory

Highlights

Highlights inventory

On view

Issues

Popular works

Other tools

Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access Portal

These pages contain reports and tools for working with The Met's collection in Wikidata. In general, there are two tiers of content:

• Highlights - about 1,500 objects The Met has defined as their most notable works
• Timline of Art History - roughly 8,000 objects deemed to be the most significant for each department

Other Wiki content

• en:Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art - English Wikipedia GLAM project focusing on article writing
• commons:Category:Images_from_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art - Wikimedia Commons category for Met images

Statistics

• Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Top_collections_by_number_of_paintings_with_public_domain_image

APIs and Data

• The Met API access - https://metmuseum.github.io/
  • Example object page - https://www.metmuseum.org/en/art/collection/search/12127
  • Example request - https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/12127
• The Met databases
  • Full artworks in CSV format - https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess
  • Constituent IDs in CSV format - https://github.com/fuzheado/metconstituent
    • Used for Metropolitan Museum of Art Constituent Database (Q106729628)
  • Tag vocabulary (CSV format) - https://github.com/fuzheado/mettags
    • Used for Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary (Q106727050)