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 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 https://www.si.edu/openaccess and https://edan.si.edu/openaccess/docs/.