The Met: Art, APIs and Global Access
summary
The Met opens its collection: open‑access images released under CC0 in 2017 (about 375,000 images), an API launched late 2018 serving 205,000 objects with 406,000 images, and a Google Arts & Culture import that jumps from 700 to 200,000+ items in one upload. The API is public with no API key, updated nightly, adds filters like “female” artist, links to Getty ULAN/AAT and Wikidata IDs, and powers projects from GAN interpolation and voice storytelling to a Bing visual search skill and a 500+ team Kaggle challenge.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:48Welcome
- 1:12Mets Mission
- 4:01Open Access Program
- 4:38Google Arts and Culture
- 5:40Launching the API
- 6:29Collaborating with Microsoft
- 7:30Gen Studio
- 8:10Prototypes
- 10:12Pinterest
- 11:17Academic Collaborations
- 12:27Parsons
- 13:57Data Science
- 16:00Egyptian Art
- 16:55Creative Commons
- 17:16Met API
- 18:19Conclusion
- 19:08Questions
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