Museum Data Service
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| Area served | United Kingdom |
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| Website | {{URL|example.com|optional display text}} |
| Advertising | No |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | September 2024 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | Varies |
The Museum Data Service (MDS) is an initiative to provide an online repository of data about objects in the collections of accredited museums in the United Kingdom and associated territories. It is a collaboration between Art UK, the Collections Trust and the University of Leicester and was launched in September 2024.[1][2]
The project builds on work done by Art UK since 2003, cataloguing paintings held in public collections.[1] It received initial funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.[1] At launch, the project included 3 million records from 21 museums.[1]
Each object is assigned a persistent identifier by the MDS, for example, the painting John Tradescant the Younger as a Gardener in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum is represented by https://museumdata.uk/objects/3aac3e74-c1da-35eb-be0f-a60c6b6b544a[3] The MDS does not display images of objects but links instead to museums' own catalogue entries.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Morrison, Alexander (17 September 2024). "'An enormous milestone for museums': platform designed to host 100 million object records launches in UK". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "'Invaluable resource': UK-wide collections database launches". Museums Association. 17 September 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "Object: John Tradescant the Younger as a Gardener". Museum Data Service. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
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