query digitaltmuseum's solr-backed api for norwegian and swedish museum objects
domain: dok.digitaltmuseum.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
read the general API documentation (Norwegian) at api.dimu.org/doc/public_api.html, or the English-language walkthrough maintained by Nasjonalmuseet at github.com/nasjonalmuseet/DiMu-API-documentation
obtain a production API key from KulturIT (support@kulturit.no); the demo key api.key=demo works for testing against the public Solr index
call GET https://api.dimu.org/api/solr/select?q=*&fq=identifier.owner:{museum_code}&wt=json&api.key={key} to query a specific museum's objects, using fq for field-scoped filters like artifact.name or artifact.producer
take an object's artifact.uuid from the Solr response, then call GET https://api.dimu.org/artifact/uuid/{uuid} for the fuller object view with production-event detail not present in the Solr response
retrieve media files using the object's defaultMediaIdentifier per the media-retrieval guide linked from the DiMu-API-documentation repo
Known gotchas
queries must be scoped with an owner/collection code (identifier.owner) — querying without one searches the entire multi-million-object DigitaltMuseum index, which is slow and imprecise
the Solr response deliberately returns only one title/producer per object even when multiple exist; use the full artifact.uuid lookup when complete multi-value data is needed
licensing (artifact.license) is set per museum/object and ranges from CC0 to fully restricted, since DigitaltMuseum aggregates hundreds of institutions with varying policies
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