Dear Meghan,
Before investing into a custom API, you might want to read a paper Ruben
Verborgh and I wrote with the wonderful people from the Cooper Hewitt museum to
warn against the “fallacy of the Multi-API culture”. It was published in the
Journal of Documentation, but you can find a freely
I'm trying to pull together a list of museums that have successfully built a
Piction to web API for their collections and archives. It would be great if we
could get together at MCN and discuss the process, share stories, etc.
Thank you!
Meghan Rosatelli, Ph.D.
Digital Interpretation
Virginia
