[OpenGLAM] More good news from Finland

[Susanna Ånäs]

Hi Tom and others


Talking to the developers I learned that there will be a revision of the
API and the data package towards the end of the year. There will be
additions to artist data such as an ID, birth and death dates and places,
nationality and "possibly something else as well"  :-)

Cheers
Susanna Ånäs WMFI


perjantai 4. lokakuuta 2013 Tom Morris kirjoitti:

> That looks cool.  I thought it'd be fun to match the artists up with
> Freebase so they could be linked to there and their Wikipedia articles, but
> it looks like the data dump (and the API from what the documentation says)
> doesn't include anything other than the artists' names even though they
> have their own identifiers and other information such as birth & death
> dates as can be seen on this page:
>
>
> http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muusa.net%2FE39.Actor_0A9524C4-18B5-4F96-8532-4FBA414DED63
>
> Is there a way to get this information easily without having to scrape the
> web site?
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Sanna Marttila <sanna.marttila at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'sanna.marttila at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks Sarah and Tove for sharing the great news: Svenska
>> litteratursällskapet i Finland pictures in Wikimedia Commons.
>>
>> More good news coming from Finland. :-)
>>
>> "The Finnish National Gallery is the largest art museum organisation in
>> Finland and a national cultural institution. The main units of the
>> organisation are the Ateneum Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art
>> Kiasma, the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, and the Central Art Archives.
>>
>> Units of the Finnish National Gallery manage more than 36 000 artworks.
>> The API is a web service used to acquire information about the artworks.
>> The API is developed and published to serve developers who wish to build
>> applications, websites and mash-ups. In addition to the API, The Finnish
>> National Gallery provides a data-package that contains all artwork
>> information in a single data-file.
>>
>> The license of the published data is Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
>> (CC0 1.0). You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for
>> commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
>>
>> Both the API and the data-package have been released to encourage people
>> to create new applications and services that are beyond our imagination and
>> resources. If you want to ask a question, comment or share your work,
>> please send email to api(at)fng.fi."
>>
>>
>> More information and the API:
>> http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/api/
>>
>> The blog post in Finnish:
>> http://blog.kiasma.fi/blog/
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Sanna
>>
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