Datasets
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Wikimedia Commons Paintings
An index of the paintings available on Wikimedia Commons. -
We Feel Fine / API
An API giving access to statements of the form "I feel X" from weblogs. Demographic details can be used to focus the search by the age, gender, location, etc. of the posters. -
Victoria & Albert Museum Collection Records
A REST API to search the V&A's collection. Sadly restricted to academic and noncommercial use. Search for items by keyword, artist/maker, collection, year,... -
VADS
"over 100,000 digital images free for use in education" -
UK National Gallery Data
Various RDF datasets from the National Gallery. Some appear to be under an original-BSD-style licence, which I believe amounts to an attribution licence. -
UK Government Art Collection
A screen-scraped RDF/SPARQL database of artworks in various UK government collections. See here for details of how the data was assembled:... -
Art Beat API | Tokyo Art Beat
An API for art event listings in Tokyo in Japan. -
Theatricalia
Theatricalia is a database of past and future theatre productions. It contains information about nearly 20,000 productions involving over 60,000 people at over 1,500 theatres.... -
Technologies of Enchantment: Early Celtic Art in Britain
"The project team has compiled a comprehensive database of all Celtic art found in Britain to date. This includes excavated finds, and finds recently reported to the Portable... -
Location And Description of Public Art In Seattle
"Permanently sited public art works funded by percent-for-art ordinance" -
MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining
Communication, proximity, location, and activity information captured from 100 subjects at MIT over the course of the 2004-2005 academic year. -
Raphael Research Resource
Comprehensive data and image resources (under the usual sweat-of-the-brow nonsense copyright) covering the work of Raphael. -
Powerhouse Museum Collection | data.australia.gov.au – beta
A database of over 70,000 objects in The PowerHouse Museum in Australia. -
The Portable Antiquities Scheme
A database of archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. Hopefully the NonCommercial clause of the licence will be removed soon:... -
Open Images
European audiovisual archive material. The BY-SA licence applies to the site and texts rather than to the archive material. -
Art Beat API | New York Art Beat
An API for art event listings in New York in the USA. -
nmsi
CSV collections data from the UK Science Museum, National Media Museum, and National Railway Museum. -
National indicators 9, 10 and 11: baselines for local authorities
"NI 9 Use of public libraries NI 10 Visits to museums and galleries NI 11 Engagement in the arts" -
JISC OpenART
A project of the University of York and the Tate to create linked data for a dataset of "The London Art World 1660-1735". Currently in progress, with the ODbL as forerunner for... -
Grants for the Arts Awards - Arts Council England
"Hard commitments awarded to successful grant applicants. Dataset includes unique reference number, name of recipient, project name, amount awarded, date of award, region, local... -
Freebase Visual Art
Data regarding artworks, artists, museums and other visual art subjects. Tab-delimited data dump available. Licence is CC-BY, although the attribution page says "Many Freebase... -
colr.org
User-generated tagged colour palettes. With a nice API. -
Dolores Labs Blog » Our color names data set is online
Comma-Separated Value dataset of 10,000 colours and the labels applied to them by Amazon Mechanical Turk clickworkers. Archive contains the dataset and useful accompanying... -
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
An article showing colour palettes taken from famous paintings, with more in the comments. This isn't really a package, but it's a good resource and a great illustration of...