These are the primary Resources available via the Harvard Art Museums' API. The list hints at the breadth of information in the API. Click on an item in the table to visit the Resource's page on our GitHub documentation. Docuemtation includes field definitions along with example queries.
| Resource | Description | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Object | Detailed information about each object in the Harvard Art Museums collections. | Object ID, artwork information, artist information, images, online view count, classification, medium, etc. |
| Person | Information about individual artists, sitters, printers, donors, authors, publishers, and more. | Person ID, name, date/location of birth and death, culture, URL, Wikipedia ID |
| Exhibition | Records of each exhibition affiliated with the museum's collections going back several hundred years. | Exhibit ID, name, date, location, website URL |
| Publication | Records for publications (books, articles, essays, etc.) that mention or display objects in the museums collections. | Publication ID, title, citation, image, location, format, date, description, volume, author |
| Image | All images produced by and associated with the museum's collections. | Image ID, image URL, IIIF URL, copyright, file ID |
| Gallery | Basic information about physical spaces within the museums’ building at 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. | Gallery ID, name, theme, floor |
| Annotation | All annotations produced by artificial intelligence in the collections. 5 seperate computer vision services and 4 large language models analyze images of artworks, returning their predicitions, "annotations", of content. | Annotation ID, source, type, body, confidence, target, feature |
| Activity | Statistical information on how each item in the collection is used, broken down by object, activity type, and day. | Activity ID, type, object ID, activity date, activity count |
For the full list of the Resources available in the Harvard Art Museums API, visit our GitHub documentation.
