[OpenGLAM] More good news from Finland

Mon Oct 7 10:26:44 UTC 2013

Thank you Sam!

The local Finnish OpenGLAM group (AvoinGLAM) is co-organizing an event together with Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki on the 23rd of October to introduce the The Finnish National Gallery API and the data package. After introductions there will be a workshop focusing on re-use scenarios and ideas. 

If there is enough interest to join the event online we could stream it. Please let me know :-)

all the best, 

Sanna 

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Sanna Marttila

Open Knowledge Finland
AvoinGLAM
http://fi.okfn.org

Aalto University
School of Arts, Design and Architecture - Media Lab
http://mlab.taik.fi/

On 7.10.2013, at 10.44, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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