Below are some examples of how people are using museum collections data:

• Exploring art history research questions:
  • “Experiments with the Getty’s Provenance Data » UCLA Digital Humanities, Spring 2015.” http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/gettydata/.
  • Matthew Lincoln, Getty Research Institute, http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/predicting-the-past-digital-art-history-modeling-and-machine-learning/
  • Lincoln’s other work on printmaking — possible because of data from the Rijksmuseum and Getty data:  https://matthewlincoln.net/projects
• Creating “generous interfaces” and new access points for collections on display and in storage:
  • Cooper Hewitt: https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/colors/
  • V&A Museum, FABRIC Browser (search by color): http://visualiser.ssl.co.uk/vis2dtest1.html?vo=1&data=potpo2971&title=Mixed%20Collection
  • Rhizome ArtBase — create a timeline http://viewshare.org/share/c9ea21f0-e57f-11e1-8ef7-4040e007d488/
• Connecting  across collections:
  • Rich Barrett Smith, Colour Lens: http://colourlens.org/
• Inviting creativity of others (developers, enthusiasts, journalists):
  • Public Domain CutUp: https://twitter.com/PDCutup
  • Museum Bot: https://twitter.com/museumbot?lang=en
  • Five Thirty Eight blog: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-excavation-of-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-collections/

Data Sets

• List of Museum APIs: http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
• Penn Museum: https://www.penn.museum/collections/objects/data.php
• Getty Research Institute, Provenance Index Databases, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/search.html
• Museums on GitHub:
  • Te-Papa Collections Data, https://github.com/te-papa/collectiondata
  • Met Museum: https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess
    Tate Gallery: https://github.com/tategallery/collection
  • MOMA: https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection