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HistoryFor data regarding artworks, collections, galleries or museums, state funding or involvement in the arts, art history, and aesthetics.
There's been a lot of activity on the art open data front recently:
Here are some examples of the kinds of things you can do with art open data:
Datasets
20 datasets found.
An article showing colour palettes taken from famous paintings, with more in the comments. This isn't really a package, but it's a good resource and a great illustration of quantitative...
Not Openly Licensed
Comma-Separated Value dataset of 10,000 colours and the labels applied to them by Amazon Mechanical Turk clickworkers. Archive contains the dataset and useful accompanying software.
Not Openly Licensed
The data.europeana.eu pilot is part of Europeana's ongoing effort of making its metadata available as Linked Open Data on the Web. The site currently contains metadata on 3.5 million...
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About The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can...
Data regarding artworks, artists, museums and other visual art subjects. Tab-delimited data dump available. Licence is CC-BY, although the attribution page says "Many Freebase...
"Hard commitments awarded to successful grant applicants. Dataset includes unique reference number, name of recipient, project name, amount awarded, date of award, region, local...
A project of the University of York and the Tate to create linked data for a dataset of "The London Art World 1660-1735". Currently in progress, with the ODbL as forerunner for the...
"NI 9 Use of public libraries NI 10 Visits to museums and galleries NI 11 Engagement in the arts"
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way. More than 500...
A database of over 70,000 objects in The PowerHouse Museum in Australia.
"Permanently sited public art works funded by percent-for-art ordinance"
"The project team has compiled a comprehensive database of all Celtic art found in Britain to date. This includes excavated finds, and finds recently reported to the Portable Antiquities...
Not Openly Licensed
Various RDF datasets from the National Gallery. Some appear to be under an original-BSD-style licence, which I believe amounts to an attribution licence.
A screen-scraped RDF/SPARQL database of artworks in various UK government collections. See here for details of how the data was assembled:...
A REST API to search the V&A's collection. Sadly restricted to academic and noncommercial use. Search for items by keyword, artist/maker, collection, year, material/technique,...
Not Openly Licensed
About Directmedia has provided 10,000 paintings from the 'York Project DVD "10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei" (10,000 Masterpieces of Painting) and the associated metadata to the Wikimedia...
