Wikidata:GLAM/Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution Open Access Portal
These pages contain information, reports and tools related to the Smithsonian Institution open access initiative and collaboration with Wikimedia projects.
In general, Smithsonian assets have two distinct identifiers that are used in Wikidata:
- Smithsonian resource ID (P7851) - consists of owning unit concatenated to the accession/inventory number, such as saam_1911.4.1 for Aurora Borealis (Q4822496)
- Smithsonian ARK ID (P9473) - consists of an ARK ID such as vk7045f8e74-3e7b-458d-8442-301c4e8e8382
Additionally, some units have identifiers specific to their uses including:
Resources
editLinks to Smithsonian endpoints with CC0 or open access content:
- Smithsonian general collections portal
- CC0 collections search (3,158,063 documents as of 02/2021)
- NMAAHC (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- CC0 collections search (2,030 items as of 02/2021)
- General collections portal
- Cooper Hewitt (National Design Museum)
- No known copyright restrictions search (59,884 results as of 02/2021)
Open access
edit- Smithsonian edanCR - Enterprise Data Access Network content repository and API
- Smithsonian/Data.gov API access - obtaining API key for access
- API documentation - http://edan.si.edu/openaccess/apidocs/
- Sample API call - link - using API key
- Format : https://api.si.edu/openaccess/api/v1.0/content/edanmdm-nmaahc_2012.36.4ab
- Interpreting response: https://edan.si.edu/openaccess/docs/more.html
- EDAN object records - https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/EDAN_IMM_OBJECT_RECORDS_1.09.pdf
- Smithsonian Open Access Metadata Repository (GitHub) - full record dumps in separate bz2 files
- List acronyms and prefixes of Smithsonian "Owning Units"
- Open Access Dashboard (using Tableau)
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People
edit- Kelly Doyle (User:KellyDoyle), Open Knowledge Coordinator at Smithsonian Institution, American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI)
- Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado), Wikimedian at Large, Smithsonian Institution
External links
edit- Smithsonian Open Access page
- Smithsonian Strategic Plan 2022
- Video: Opening the Doors of Imagination: Secretary Bunch’s Reflections on Smithsonian Open Access, February 26, 2020