Smithsonian Open Access Collections Metadata

@article{,
title= {Smithsonian Open Access Collections Metadata},
journal= {},
author= {},
year= {},
url= {https://www.si.edu/openaccess},
abstract= {NOTE: contents decompress to ~44GB!

From the AWS dataset web page:

> The Smithsonian’s mission is the "increase and diffusion of knowledge" and has been collecting since 1846. The Smithsonian, through its efforts to digitize its multidisciplinary collections, has created millions of digital assets and related metadata describing the collection objects. On February 25th, 2020, the Smithsonian released over 2.8 million CC0 interdisciplinary 2-D and 3-D images, related metadata, and additionally, research data from researches across the Smithsonian. The 2.8 million "open access" collections are a subset of the Smithsonian’s 155 million objects, 2.1 million library volumes and 156,000 cubic feet of archival collections held in 19 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo. Digitization of collections is ongoing.

This archive contains the metadata for all Open Access items, as of 2025-03-29 (now substantially more than 2.8 million items). Records are in JSON format, split by institution; the record format details are documented at the last link below.

* Smithsonian Open Access page: https://www.si.edu/openaccess
* AWS Open Data page: https://registry.opendata.aws/smithsonian-open-access/
* Enterprise Data Access Network documentation: https://edan.si.edu/openaccess/docs/
},
keywords= {US Government, museums, Smithsonian, SI},
terms= {},
license= {CC0},
superseded= {}
}