Datasets:
metadata
license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
- feature-extraction
- text-generation
language:
- en
tags:
- museums
- cultural-heritage
- smithsonian
- open-access
- metadata
pretty_name: Smithsonian Open Access
size_categories:
- 10M<n<100M
Smithsonian Open Access Data
Pre-processed data dumps from the Smithsonian Open Access initiative, covering millions of objects across Smithsonian Institution museums and archives.
What is this?
The Smithsonian publishes their Open Access metadata on S3, but the raw data is split across 255 individual .txt files per unit. This dataset consolidates each unit's data into a single .jsonl.gz file for easier downloading and processing.
Files
Each file corresponds to a Smithsonian unit:
| File | Unit |
|---|---|
aaa.jsonl.gz |
Archives of American Art |
acah.jsonl.gz |
Archives Center, American History |
acm.jsonl.gz |
Anacostia Community Museum |
cfchfolklife.jsonl.gz |
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage |
chndm.jsonl.gz |
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
eepa.jsonl.gz |
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives |
fbr.jsonl.gz |
Smithsonian Field Book Registry |
fsa.jsonl.gz |
Freer-Sackler Archives |
fsg.jsonl.gz |
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery |
hac.jsonl.gz |
Horticulture Archives Collection |
hmsg.jsonl.gz |
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
hsfa.jsonl.gz |
Human Studies Film Archives |
naa.jsonl.gz |
National Anthropological Archives |
nasm.jsonl.gz |
National Air and Space Museum |
nmaahc.jsonl.gz |
National Museum of African American History and Culture |
nmafa.jsonl.gz |
National Museum of African Art |
nmah.jsonl.gz |
National Museum of American History |
nmai.jsonl.gz |
National Museum of the American Indian |
nmnhanthro.jsonl.gz |
NMNH - Anthropology |
nmnhbirds.jsonl.gz |
NMNH - Birds |
nmnhbotany.jsonl.gz |
NMNH - Botany |
nmnheducation.jsonl.gz |
NMNH - Education |
nmnhento.jsonl.gz |
NMNH - Entomology |
nmnhfishes.jsonl.gz |
NMNH - Fishes |
Usage
# Clone the entire dataset
git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/museado/smithsonian-data
# Or download individual files
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/museado/smithsonian-data/resolve/main/nmah.jsonl.gz
# Decompress and explore
gunzip -c nmah.jsonl.gz | head -1 | jq .
Data Format
Each line is a JSON object representing a single Smithsonian record. The structure follows the Smithsonian's EDAN (Enterprise Digital Asset Network) schema.
Source
Original data from: https://smithsonian-open-access.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/metadata/edan/
License
The underlying data is released by the Smithsonian under CC0.