[OpenGLAM] More good news from Finland

[Sam Leon]

Great news!

I just wrote a very short news piece about it on OpenGLAM.org:

http://openglam.org/2013/10/07/finnish-national-gallery-launches-open-api/

Sam


On 5 October 2013 08:25, Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at wikimedia.fi> wrote:

> 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>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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