APIs for Access to the Collections of the Harvard Art Museums and Harvard Library

Harvard IT Summit 2015

Bonjour

Hi.

Jeff StewardDirector of Digital Infrastructure and Emerging TechnologyHarvard Art Museums

Who is and what is

the Harvard Art Museums?

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Why did we build an API? What motivated us?

What’s available through the API?

Read more athttps://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs

ObjectsPeopleExhibitionsPublicationsSitesGalleriesActivities

Brand SpectrumSee http://apps.harvardartmuseums.org/spectrum-explorer/

ClassificationsCenturiesColorsCulturesGroupsMediumsPeriodsPlacesTechniquesWorktypes

How was it built?

NginxElasticsearchNode.jsPHP

AWSHeroku

SQLSQL

The data pipeline

PHPDatabot

Elasticsearch

AWS S3

Analytics

Big deal. Lots of people have APIs.So what are you doing with it?

Call the collection at or text “Random” to 1-617-500-1866

Thank you.