Museum metadata - the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

I was in San Francisco last week for an altmetrics conference at PLOS. While there, I visited the Asian Art Museum, just the Roads of Arabia exhibition. It was a great exhibit. While I was looking at the pieces, I read many labels, and thought, “hey, what if someone wants this metadata”? Since we have an R package in development for scraping museum metadata (called musemeta), I just started some scraping code for this museum....

December 10, 2014 · 5 min · Scott Chamberlain