National Gallery Linked Art endpoints

[Rupert Shepherd]

Dear colleagues

No doubt you'll have picked this up on the MCG list, but: I'm delighted to announce that the National Gallery now offers interoperable endpoints to its collections data - at least as a beta whilst we put further systems in place to manage images, and finalise our data mappings, so please consider this as a very soft launch.

You'll be most interested to hear that we offer all entities in our current system as Linked Art, albeit as static pages (not yet a Linked Art API). Once you've retrieved one or more PIDs form our Elasticsearch-based API, you can concatenate our base URL, https://data.ng.ac.uk/, the PID, and either .json or ?profile=linked-art, and that will give you your Linked Art record. So either https://data.ng.ac.uk/0F6J-0001-0000-0000.json or https://data.ng.ac.uk/0F6J-0001-0000-0000?profile=linked-art will get you a Linked Art representation of NG35, Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne. As this is still a beta service, we'd be particularly grateful if a few of you could kick the tyres a bit and make sure we've done our mappings right, as well as letting us know how you're finding that the systems work, and any improvements we could make to our documentation. There are contact details in the online documentation, or just DM me at the address below.

Huge thanks to Richard Light, who has carried out the mapping work and written the templates to put it in place; Jim Gettrup of the Gallery's Information Systems department, who set up the HTML redirects and template pages; and Jacob Naylor and James Huish of our middleware supplier, Knowledge Integration, who set up the rest of the content negotiation.

Best wishes

Rupert

Rupert Shepherd, PhD FSA (he/him)
Collection Information Manager

E rupert....@nationalgallery.org.uk

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Mostly working remotely; calls to the number above should still reach me.