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Remove links to api.sciencemuseum.org.uk
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I emailed them and they confirm it has been decommissioned.
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ojwb committed Jun 11, 2015
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.. _documentation source from github: https://github.com/xapian/xapian-docsprint

The first dataset is the first 100 objects taken from `museum
catalogue data released by the Science Museum (which was available from
<http://api.sciencemuseum.org.uk/documentation/collections/>`_, but that
site seems to no longer exist as of June 2015) and
the second we have curated ourselves from information on Wikipedia
about the 50 `US States
The first dataset is the first 100 objects taken from museum
catalogue data released by the `Science Museum
<http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk>`_. We downloaded this data from their API
site, but this has since shut down. The second dataset we have curated
ourselves from information on Wikipedia about the 50 `US States
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state>`_. Both are provided as
gzipped CSV files. The first dataset is released under the `Creative
Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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Building a museum catalogue
===========================

.. This link to the API seems to be dead (June 2015) - reinstate it if that
.. turns out to be temporary:
.. http://api.sciencemuseum.org.uk/documentation/collections/
We're going to build a simple search system based on museum catalogue
data released under the `Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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