R client for museum metadata
Currently musemeta can get data from:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art via
- scraping the MET website (see function
met()) - http://scrapi.org/ (see functions
scrapi_())
- scraping the MET website (see function
- The Canadian Science & Technology Museum Corporation (CSTMC) (see functions
cstmc_()) - The National Gallery of Art (NGA) (see function
nga()) - The Getty Museum (see function
getty()) - The Art Institute of Chicago (see function
aic()) - The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (see function
aam())
Other sources of museum metadata will be added...check back later & see issues.
Get ckanr first, not on CRAN yet (I'll get ckanr up to CRAN before this is on CRAN)
devtools::install_github("ropensci/ckanr")Then install musemeta
devtools::install_github("ropensci/musemeta")library("musemeta")To get actual metadata for an object, you can use met() or scrapi_get() functions. The latter gets much more data, and uses a REST API, while the former scrapes the html directly, and can be more fragile with any changes in the html on the site.
Data for a single object
met(559490)
#> <Museum metadata> Siphon nozzle
#> Period: New Kingdom, Ramesside
#> Dynasty: Dynasty 19 20
#> Date: ca. 1295 1070 B.C.
#> Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, Cemetery, MMA excavations, 1913 14
#> Medium: Bronze
#> Dimensions: l. 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in)
#> Credit Line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922
#> Accession Number: 22.1.962Or index to name of object, or values in the description
met(559490)$name
#> [1] "Siphon nozzle"met(559490)$values[1:2]
#> [[1]]
#> [[1]]$name
#> [1] "Period"
#>
#> [[1]]$value
#> [1] "New Kingdom, Ramesside"
#>
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [[2]]$name
#> [1] "Dynasty"
#>
#> [[2]]$value
#> [1] "Dynasty 19 20"A different object
met(246562)
#> <Museum metadata> Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and spout)
#> Period: Classical
#> Date: 4th century B.C.
#> Culture: Greek, South Italian, Campanian
#> Medium: Terracotta; black-glaze
#> Dimensions: 2 7/8in. (7.3cm)
#> Classification: Vases
#> Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1896
#> Accession Number: 96.18.35Get many objects
lapply(c(479283, 228901, 436876), met)
#> [[1]]
#> <Museum metadata> Papyri Fragments
#> Date: 7th century
#> Geography: Made in Thebes, Byzantine Egypt
#> Culture: Coptic
#> Medium: Papyrus and ink
#> Dimensions: Framed: 11 1/4 x 15 in. (28.5 x 38.1 cm)
#> Classification: Papyrus
#> Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1914
#> Accession Number: 14.1.616
...Note: the
/randomendpoint is down.
This is again, for The Metropolitan Museum of Art only
Get a specific object
scrapi_info(123, fields = c('title', 'primaryArtistNameOnly', 'medium'))
#> $timelineList
#> $timelineList[[1]]
#> $timelineList[[1]]$name
#> [1] "The United States, 1600-1800 A.D."
#>
#> $timelineList[[1]]$count
#> [1] 0
#>
#> $timelineList[[1]]$orderId
#> [1] 0
...Search for objects
scrapi_search(query = 'mirror')
#> $links
#> [1] "http://scrapi.org/object/207785" "http://scrapi.org/object/50444"
#> [3] "http://scrapi.org/object/313256" "http://scrapi.org/object/467733"
#> [5] "http://scrapi.org/object/267055" "http://scrapi.org/object/49591"
#> [7] "http://scrapi.org/object/156225" "http://scrapi.org/object/545128"
#> [9] "http://scrapi.org/object/452364" "http://scrapi.org/object/460423"
#> [11] "http://scrapi.org/object/244558" "http://scrapi.org/object/452852"
#> [13] "http://scrapi.org/object/248153" "http://scrapi.org/object/54118"
#> [15] "http://scrapi.org/object/60142" "http://scrapi.org/object/436839"
#> [17] "http://scrapi.org/object/3977" "http://scrapi.org/object/255391"
...Get an object, with a scrapi.org url
out <- scrapi_get("http://scrapi.org/object/427581")
out$primaryArtist
#> $role
#> [1] "Artist"
#>
#> $name
#> [1] "Daniel Marot the Elder"
#>
#> $nationality
#> [1] "(French, Paris 1661–1752 The Hague)"or an object id
out <- scrapi_get(427581)
out$primaryArtist
#> $role
#> [1] "Artist"
#>
#> $name
#> [1] "Daniel Marot the Elder"
#>
#> $nationality
#> [1] "(French, Paris 1661–1752 The Hague)"List changes
cstmc_changes(limit = 1)
#> [[1]]
#> [[1]]$user_id
#> [1] "27778230-2e90-4818-9f00-bbf778c8fa09"
#>
#> [[1]]$timestamp
#> [1] "2015-03-30T15:06:55.500589"
#>
#> [[1]]$object_id
#> [1] "f4406699-3e11-4856-be48-b55da98b3c14"
#>
...List datasets
cstmc_datasets(as = "table")
#> [1] "artifact-data-agriculture"
#> [2] "artifact-data-aviation"
#> [3] "artifact-data-bookbinding"
#> [4] "artifact-data-chemistry"
#> [5] "artifact-data-communications"
#> [6] "artifact-data-computing-technology"
#> [7] "artifact-data-domestic-technology"
#> [8] "artifact-data-energy-electric"
#> [9] "artifact-data-exploration-and-survey"
#> [10] "artifact-data-fisheries"
...Search for packages
out <- cstmc_package_search(q = '*:*', rows = 2, as = 'table')
lapply(out$results$resources, function(x) x[,1:3])
#> [[1]]
#> resource_group_id cache_last_updated
#> 1 4cff3cdf-7174-46f1-b2cf-da84a2478583 NA
#> 2 4cff3cdf-7174-46f1-b2cf-da84a2478583 NA
#> 3 4cff3cdf-7174-46f1-b2cf-da84a2478583 NA
#> 4 4cff3cdf-7174-46f1-b2cf-da84a2478583 NA
#> revision_timestamp
#> 1 2015-03-30T15:06:55.217106
#> 2 2014-11-04T02:23:51.866763
#> 3 2014-11-05T19:05:31.328801
#> 4 2014-11-05T19:09:35.883635
#>
#> [[2]]
#> resource_group_id cache_last_updated
#> 1 9d1467e6-4e87-4ebf-bd73-35326fd46491 NA
#> 2 9d1467e6-4e87-4ebf-bd73-35326fd46491 NA
#> 3 9d1467e6-4e87-4ebf-bd73-35326fd46491 NA
#> 4 9d1467e6-4e87-4ebf-bd73-35326fd46491 NA
#> revision_timestamp
#> 1 2015-01-09T23:33:13.972143
#> 2 2014-10-31T22:37:58.762911
#> 3 2014-11-05T18:23:00.789562
#> 4 2014-11-05T18:25:16.764967Get metadata for a single object
nga(id = 33267)
#> <NGA metadata> Paradise with Christ in the Lap of Abraham
#> Artist: German 13th Century
#> Inscription: on verso late thirteenth-century copy of a letter from Pope Gregory
#> IX to Elizabeth of Thuringia
#> Provenance: R. Forrer (Lugt Supp.941a)
#> Description:
#> created: c. 1239
#> medium: tempera and gold leaf on vellum, NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 33
#> dimensions: overall: 22.4 x 15.7 cm (8 13/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
#> credit: Rosenwald Collection
...Get metadata for many objects
lapply(c(143679,27773,28487), nga)
#> [[1]]
#> <NGA metadata> Barrington bore it all with exemplary patience
#> Artist: Du Maurier, George
#> Inscription: by artist, lower right in pen and brown ink: Barrington bore it all
#> with exemplary patience / P.7 Par VI / Mlle de Mersac /
#> [Not deciphered]; by later hand, upper right on flap in
#> graphite: [Not deciphered] (cut off) / Reduce [to?] 6 1/4;
#> by later hand, lower center verso in pen and blue ink: [Not
#> deciphered] (effaced)
#> Provenance: (Fry Gallery, London); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York,
...There is no search functionality yet for this source.
Get metadata for a single object
getty(id = 140725)
#> <Getty metadata> A Young Herdsman Leaning on his "Houlette"
#> Artist: Herman Saftleven the Younger [Dutch, 1609 - 1685]
#> Provenance
#> : Gustav Nebehay [Vienna, Austria]
#> - 1941: Franz W. Koenigs [Haarlem, Netherlands], by inheritance to his heirs.
#> - 2001: Private Collection (sold, Sotheby's New York, January 23, 2001, lot 20, to Bob Haboldt.)
#> 2001: Bob P. Haboldt, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
#> Description:
#> Artist/Maker(s): Herman Saftleven the Younger [Dutch, 1609 - 1685]
#> Date: about 1650
...Get metadata for many objects
lapply(c(140725,8197), getty)
#> [[1]]
#> <Getty metadata> A Young Herdsman Leaning on his "Houlette"
#> Artist: Herman Saftleven the Younger [Dutch, 1609 - 1685]
#> Provenance
#> : Gustav Nebehay [Vienna, Austria]
#> - 1941: Franz W. Koenigs [Haarlem, Netherlands], by inheritance to his heirs.
#> - 2001: Private Collection (sold, Sotheby's New York, January 23, 2001, lot 20, to Bob Haboldt.)
#> 2001: Bob P. Haboldt, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
#> Description:
#> Artist/Maker(s): Herman Saftleven the Younger [Dutch, 1609 - 1685]
...There is no search functionality yet for this source.
Get metadata for a single object
aic(41033)
#> <AIC metadata> 41033
#> Artist:
#> Name: Charles Edmund Brock English
#> Years: 1870-1938
#> Link: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/41033
#> Title: "'The unwelcome hints of Mr. Shepherd, his Agent,' Chapter I"
#> frontispiece for Jane Austen's Persuasion, 1898
#> Description: Pen and black ink with brush and watercolor, on ivory wove card 298 x
#> 222 mm Signed lower right, in pen and black ink: "C.E.Brock .
#> 1898"; inscribed, lower center: "'The unwelcome hints of Mr.
...Get metadata for many objects
lapply(c(41033,210804), aic)
#> [[1]]
#> <AIC metadata> 41033
#> Artist:
#> Name: Charles Edmund Brock English
#> Years: 1870-1938
#> Link: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/41033
#> Title: "'The unwelcome hints of Mr. Shepherd, his Agent,' Chapter I"
#> frontispiece for Jane Austen's Persuasion, 1898
#> Description: Pen and black ink with brush and watercolor, on ivory wove card 298 x
#> 222 mm Signed lower right, in pen and black ink: "C.E.Brock .
...There is no search functionality yet for this source.
Get metadata for a single object
aam(11462)
#> <AAM metadata> Molded plaque (tsha tsha)
#> Object id: 1992.96
#> Object name: Votive plaque
#> Date: approx. 1992
#> Artist:
#> Medium: Plaster mixed with resin and pigment
#> Credit line: Gift of Robert Tevis
#> On display?: yes
#> Collection: Decorative Arts
#> Department: Himalayan Art
...Get metadata for many objects
lapply(c(17150,17140,17144), aam)
#> [[1]]
#> <AAM metadata> Boys sumo wrestling
#> Object id: 2005.100.35
#> Object name: Woodblock print
#> Date: approx. 1769
#> Artist: Suzuki HarunobuJapanese, 1724 - 1770
#> Medium: Ink and colors on paper
#> Credit line: Gift of the Grabhorn Ukiyo-e Collection
#> On display?: no
#> Collection: Prints And Drawings
...There is no search functionality yet for this source.
- Please report any issues or bugs.
- License: MIT
- Get citation information for
musemetain R doingcitation(package = 'musemeta')
