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NMSI: Science Museum, Media Museum, Railway Museum

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on August 11, 2009 at 5:39:17 pm
 

As you'd expect, the Science Museum collections include science, medicine, ICT and engineering, but they also include artworks, and our interpretation includes social history as well as contemporary and historical science.

 

Find out more about the scope and size of our collections or see a snapshot of our collections.

 

You can see objects in Making the Modern World, Ingenious, the shiny, new Brought to Life, some gallery and exhibition pages also list objects.

 

In terms of properly machine-readable data, you can check out Sample object data (from the Science Museum's GOD).  GOD is our 'global object database'.

 

One reason we're looking at APIs is because we'll be running a mashup competition using data created for our 'Cosmos and Culture' exhibition to provide the public web interface(s) for the exhibition.  To provide more context, I've made the presentation I gave internally to get sign-off on the project available, blogged about it and am sharing a draft version of the data output from the API.

 

If you want to get involved, pop over to the Cosmos and Culture mashup competition page and let me know what you think of the draft API.

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