https://github.com/Smithsonian/OpenAccess

Smithsonian Open Access Data Repository
https://github.com/Smithsonian/OpenAccess

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Smithsonian Open Access Data Repository

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Smithsonian/OpenAccess
• Owner: Smithsonian
• License: cc0-1.0
• Created: 2019-07-01T17:18:20.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-12-21T17:22:34.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-01T06:14:20.238Z (5 months ago)
• Homepage: https://www.si.edu/openaccess
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 375
• Watchers: 26
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        

# OpenAccess

## Smithsonian Open Access Metadata Repository (GitHub)

-!! Maintenance Note.. We have transitioned away from GitHub for our compressed archive.. 

 

- Update 12-21-21

 Registry of Open Data on AWS (https://registry.opendata.aws/smithsonian-open-access/)

 Repository is divided into unit buckets.

 Directory listings can be found at (https://smithsonian-open-access.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/metadata/edan/index.txt)

- Over 11 million metadata records from the Smithsonian Institution.

- Files are serialized as [line-delimited

  JSON](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_streaming#Line-delimited_JSON) and

- Directories are organized by owning unit and files are distributed by first

  two characters of content serialization hash.

Owning units are internal Smithsonian acronyms.

Code | Description

--- | ---

AAA | Archives of American Art

ACM | Anacostia Community Museum

CFCHFOLKLIFE | Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

CHNDM | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

EEPA | Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives

FBR | Smithsonian Field Book Project

FSG | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

HAC | Smithsonian Gardens

HMSG | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

HSFA | Human Studies Film Archives

NAA | National Anthropological Archives

NASM | National Air and Space Museum

NMAAHC | National Museum of African American History and Culture

NMAH | National Museum of American History

NMAI | National Museum of the American Indian

NMAfA | National Museum of African Art

NMNH | National Museum of Natural History

NMNHANTHRO | NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

NMNHBIRDS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division

NMNHBOTANY | NMNH - Botany Dept.

NMNHEDUCATION | NMNH - Education & Outreach

NMNHENTO | NMNH - Entomology Dept.

NMNHFISHES | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division

NMNHHERPS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Herpetology Division

NMNHINV | NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

NMNHMAMMALS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division

NMNHMINSCI | NMNH - Mineral Sciences Dept.

NMNHPALEO | NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

NPG | National Portrait Gallery

NPM | National Postal Museum

NZP | Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute

SAAM | Smithsonian American Art Museum

SIA | Smithsonian Institution Archives

SIL | Smithsonian Libraries

More information about Open Access at the Smithsonian as well as documentation

on metadata schemas can be found at  and

.