The full build out of the collection API and a collection builder web application is still a work in progress.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched The Met Collection API (application programming interface) in October 2018.
The WMI scripting API is a collection of COM objects usable from most programming languages and scripting languages.
The Collection API allows a group of LibraryCloud records to be labeled as part of a named collection.
Documentation and resources on how to use The Met Collection API, as well as additional information about Open Access, are available at metmuseum.org/openaccess.org/openaccess
By capitalizing on the program's API and healthy collection of bulk downloads, clever individuals will surely devise uses for state legal data that cannot presently be envisioned.
Participants worked with The Met Collection API, the subject keywords, and Microsoft's AI technologies, including Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Search, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Machine Learning for Apache Spark, conversational AI, and custom models with Azure Machine Learning.
However, Twitter API limits the collection to 180 tweets per 15 minutes.
The service is powered by SFMOMA's Collection API, which has data on all of the 35,000+ pieces of art in the collection.
LibraryCloud also contains an alpha release of a Collections API, that is planned for use as a digital collection definition and export service.
From a researcher's perspective, many social media sites release their application programming interfaces (APIs), prompting data collection and analysis by researchers and developers.
