metadata using get method for object_id

[Naveen]

Hi,

I am trying to extract metadata associated with each object_id.

I am using the below method in the API:

http://tagger.steve.museum/api-docs/object-get.php

This method is returning different json results for different
object_id.

For example:

For object_id 63854 the result is below:

"metadata":{"created":{"en":["1968"]}
,"created_earliest_year":{"en":["1968"]}
,"created_latest_year":{"en":["1968"]},
"creator":{"en":["Designer Harry Gordon (American, 1960- )"]},
"creator_family_name":{"en":["Gordon"]},
"creator_given_name":{"en":["Harry"]},
"credit_line":{"en":["Emma Harter Sweetser Fund"]},
"description":{"en":["Paper shift dress, in original sealed, stored
packaging. The dress is printed with the Allen Ginsberg poem \"Uptown
New York.\" The dress is sleeveless, A-line shift dress, above the
knee length."]},
"extent":{"en":["15 1\/2 x 11 3\/4 in."]},
"identifier_irn":{"en":["irn-62911"]},
"identifier_accession_number":{"en":["2005.34"]},
"medium":{"en":["paper (75% rayon, 25% nylon) screen printed"]},
"provenance":{"en":["Doyle New York sale 05CT01, Lot# 1106"]},
"title":{"en":["\"Hand\" or \"poem by Allen Ginsberg\" poster
dress"]},
"type":{"en":["Costume"]}},

and for object_id 3 the result is below:

"metadata":
{"steve_museum_object_id":{"en":["3"]},
"steve_institution_id":{"en":["2"]},
"title":{"en":["Rondout, New York"]},
"creator":{"en":["Dabo, Leon (American, 1868 -1960)"]},
"created":{"en":["about 1907"]},
"medium":{"en":["oil on canvas"]},
"extent":{"en":["27 x 36 in. 34 x 43 in. (framed)"]},
"credit_line":{"en":["Gift of S. O. Buckner"]},
"type":{"en":["Visual Works: Paintings"]},
"identifier_accession_number":{"en":["07.18"]},
"amico_object_type":{"en":["Paintings"]},
"identifier_irn":{"en":["irn-15247"]},
"created_earliest_year":{"en":["1906"]},
"created_latest_year":{"en":["1908"]},
"creator_family_name":{"en":["Dabo, Leon"]}},


As you can see the sub tags in metadata tag is different for each
object_id.

I am not sure why this is so.

-Naveen

[KyleJ]

Naveen,

Metadata is dynamic and just about anything can be put into it. We try
to map everything to Dublin Core, but there could be a lot more fields
than that. It really is a place for an institution to store any data
they want with an object. We do not require any fields in the
metadata, so there could even be records that have no metadata.

Here is a link to the metadata spec that we set as a baseline:
http://code.google.com/p/steve-museum/downloads/list