Princeton University Art Museum
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Museum's Image use and Access Info
- "Thumbnail-sized images of copyrighted works are displayed under fair use"
Advanced Search page has full lists of classifcations etc used in the data file
Mobile App for one of their exhibitions
Sample art: row 1 in handbookobjects.csv is a painting called "Annunciation" found here: http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/fr/collections/objects/18583
The Artist (da Siena) is found here: http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/fr/collections/maker/5010
Data Columns: Contents, Issues and Questions
puamdata_handbookobjects.csv
This is a table of art objects with maker, title, era, medium, size, donor, classification and photo information.
ObjectID
- type: number
- description: internal PUAM number, used in item's URL in online collection, it's the last part of object's URL path
Object Number
- type: string
- format: mostly contain a prefix, year and identifier; some prefixed 'x' and some 'y' and some without any prefix.
- description: another unique identier, probably pre-digital
Sort Number
- type: string
- format: similar to Object number but with the prfix moved to the end of the string
- description: an identifier that will sort correctly alphanumerically, correlates with the Object Number field
Dept
- type: string
- description: short string that indicates which part of the museum the piece is in. Examples: American, African, Photo, etc. Also contains the following abbreviations:
- AAA: Art of the Ancient Americas
- ABI: Ancient, Byzanntine and Islamic
- EPS: European
- Moco: Modern and Contemporary
- P&D: Prints and Drawings
- Photoarch: Photo Archives
- TODO: make these choices into a data list somewhere. Note that even values like 'American' are short for 'American Art' - e.g. each has a short and long name values
Maker
- type: string
- description: what person or culture created the piece
Alpha Sort
- type: string
- description: same as Maker but listed last name first for sorting
Title
- type: string
- description: name of the piece
Date
- type: string
- description: human readable dates like '240 B.C' or 'ca. 1750'
Begin Date
- type: number
- description: machine readable BEGIN date of 'Date' field's range, B.C. dates are negative
End Date
- type: number
- description: machine readable END date of 'Date' field's range, B.C. dates are negative
Medium
- type: string
- description: what the art is made of or on or with; seems like a precise list of possible values
Dimensions
- type: string
- description: size of the piece in both cm and inches; human readable, parsable if cleaned but format changes depending on how many dimensions, oddities, etc
Credit Line
- type: string
- description: text of the line below the piece crediting the origin of the donation or the loan
ClassificationTerm
- type: list of strings
- description: comma separated list of well known terms for what the piece is: drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, etc.
Copyright
- type: string
- description: blank but for two entries with a copyright assigned to the PU trustees
Photo Credit
- type: string
- description: who took the museum's picture for them. Parseable. Some blanks.
Primary Image URL
- type: link
- description: URL to the image.
- NOTE: not a thumbnail picture, quite large! Missing protocol portion of URL.
- NOTE: there are thumbnails on the website, likely can figure out their URL and it will be similar
- NOTE: image file name seems derived from Object Name field.
Primary Image Filename
- type: string
- description: file name portion of the image URL
puamdata_handbookobjects.csv
This is a table of the art objects' geographic information. Geo info is only very approximate.
- TODO: check this out in more detail. Well, actually there isn't much there.
Possible Projects
- simply provide a REST API to the data for others to re-use
- iOS app for browsing?
- if more detailed location information was available map the art with Google Maps