This repository contains open-licensed releases of the Colby College Museum of Art's collections data. This release consists of 7659 objects, including data for the Lunder Collection and works by Alex Katz in the collection. It is published under a Creative Commons 1.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Associated code is published under a BSD-style license (see below).
This data is the result of the Museum's project to clean, normalize, and release collections data under an open license. It is presented without images (the data is also available in a searchable, but web-only, form at http://www.colby.edu/museum/?s). Our goal is ultimately to release this data as semantically-expressed linked data as part of our participation in the American Art Collaborative (http://www.americanartcollaborative.org).
For V1.5, we have substantially changed our release formats, which for the time being are only available as JSON. Our JSON uses empty strings to indicate no data present, and is formatted as:
{
"objects" : [
{
"embark_ID" : *unique identifier*,
"URL" : "URL to record in CCMA's online collections",
"Disp_Access_No" : "CCMA accession number",
"_AccNumSort1" : "Sort order of accession number (usually nil)",
"Disp_Create_DT" : "Generated date field (usually 1234-5678 or ca.)",
"_Disp_Start_Dat" : "Earliest date of object creation",
"_Disp_End_Date" : "Latest date of object creation",
"Disp_Title" : "Full title",
"Alt_Title" : "Alternate title",
"Obj_Title" : "Object title",
"Series_Title" : "Series title",
"Disp_Maker_1" : "Maker name (usually FirstName LastName)",
"Sort_Artist" : "Sortable maker name (usually LastName, FirstName)",
"Disp_Dimen" : "Generated object dimensions (usually in x in (cm x cm))",
"Medium" : "Object medium (may also contain edition information for works on paper)",
"Support" : "Object support (may also contain edition information for works on paper)",
"Info_Page_Comm" : "Object description for web access (deprecated)",
"Dedication" : "Object dedication and collection information",
"Copyright_Type" : "Object copyright limitations (deprecated)",
"Disp_Obj_Type" : "Object type (Sculpture, Ceramics, etc)",
"Creation_Place2" : "Object's place of creation (deprecated)",
"Department" : "Department of responsibility for object (deprecated)",
"Obj_Name" : "Object name (deprecated)",
"Period" : "Period of object creation",
"Style" : "Object style (deprecated)",
"Edition" : "Edition and state information for works on paper (where available)",
"Curator" : "Curator responsible for object description (deprecated)"
},
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]
"exhibitions" : [
{
"embark_ID" : "Object present at exhibition",
"Exhibition_Name" : "Exhibition name",
"Start_Date" : "Start date of exhibition",
"End_Date" : "End date of exhibition",
"User_Def_1" : "Unique identifier for exhibition (projected)"
},
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]
}
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This release strips our previous release's media_AAT field, which should return in our planned LIDO-XML release of this data.
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A signal exceptions to the above dimension schema are 300-odd works on paper by James McNeil Whistler, which carry plate and sheet dimensions in mm, formatted as: "plate: A x B mm, sheet: C x D mm".
Collections Data of the Colby Museum of Art are provided with a Creative Commons 1.0 license, and reconcile.py is provided under the original BSD-style license of Michael Stephens' demo reconciliation service.
If you have any questions about this release, or the Colby College Museum of Art's other digital projects, please contact us: museum at colby.edu, cbutcosk at colby.edu