Collection Data

Auckland Museum has embraced the Linked Open Data concept in order to facilitate collaboration and sharing of their rich collections data. Linked data describes a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried.

The following resources are available via the API:

/swagger /search /id /id/media /sparql

You can also view a HTML version of the API for any object in the Auckland Museum Collections. http://api.aucklandmuseum.com/id/humanhistory/object/100923