Open data
The museum’s collection catalogue as datasets — for researchers, developers, libraries and aggregators. The files are built from what the site shows and are updated with it.
Files
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Objects table (CSV)
One row per object: inventory number, titles, dating, place, material, technique, dimensions and description in Ukrainian and English, and links to photographs and 3D models. UTF-8; opens in Excel and LibreOffice.
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The same data (JSON Lines)
The same set, one JSON object per line — convenient for programs.
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LIDO 1.1, part 1 of 2
Objects in the LIDO standard for museum aggregators, up to 1000 objects per file. A single object’s record is on its page (“LIDO XML”). The files are rebuilt every night; the boundaries between parts may shift when objects are added — to track changes use the updated column of the table.
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LIDO 1.1, part 2 of 2
What is in the table
- inventory_number
- the inventory number
- url_uk, url_en
- the object’s page in Ukrainian and in English
- title_*, group_*, dating_*, place_*, material_*, technique_*, dimensions_*, description_*
- the matching fields of the record; _uk is Ukrainian, _en is English (empty when there is no English text yet)
- themes_uk, themes_en
- the themes (tags) of the object, separated by “ | ”
- projects
- the projects within which the object was digitised
- has_photos, has_3d, has_pattern
- 1 or 0: has photographs, has a 3D model, has an embroidery pattern
- image_urls, model_url
- addresses of the photographs (up to 8, separated by “ | ”) and of the 3D model
- licence
- the licence of the photographs and the 3D model
- lido_url, updated
- the object’s LIDO record and the date of its last update
Terms of use
The data is given as it is shown on the object pages. The terms for photographs and 3D models are in the licence column and in the site’s terms of use. Suggested credit: M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum, the object’s inventory number.
About completeness
The catalogue is digitised gradually: not every field is filled, and the English fields exist for only some objects. An empty field means there is no data. Need other formats or an API? Write to us.