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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access Initiative
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2017-02-07 · latest 2025-09-07
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Fortunately the Met's data is public, both via API and a 330MB CSV. https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess Essentially they have an "Object Date" field that's a human-readable string and could be anything, and then they include "Object…
comment by kehvyn · 2025-09-07 · in Oldest recorded transaction -
I actually looked at supporting dates like this, but if you go through the Met's open dataset ( https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess ) that kind of "alternative calendar with no reference to the BCE/CE dates" is basically nonexistent.…
comment by kehvyn · 2025-09-07 · in Oldest recorded transaction -
…you can use for a local database of artist, reference number, URL, time period, license, etc. [1] https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess
comment by abetusk · 2017-05-19 · in What Does the Met’s New Online Collection Mean for Art Students? -
…from the dataset is one thing, but there's an open issue to include a link to the images: https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess/issues/2
comment by kjell · 2017-02-08 · in The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free -
…on Github. It would likely be a more responsible way to access this versus hammering their API. https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess
comment by scosman · 2017-02-08 · in The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free