Purpose

Welcome to the NG Beta API, which has been set-up to allow direct access to structured, linkable data describing the National Gallery Collection. The raw data has initially been provided in the form of a basic json array. Once completed, data mapped to the CIDOC CRM, providing a standard semantic presentation of the data, will also be provided in a range of relevant formats.

These web pages have been set up to provide examples of how the system works in a human readable form, but the system is generally designed to be called directly by other computer systems.

At this time all of the text data display via this API is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Basic URL Format - NG API

NG data URLs take the form:

namespace/AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA

where:

• The namespace is:
  • https://data.ng-london.org.uk/
• A is any alphanumeric character, uppercase letter and numbers, and together they represent a unique NG PID.
  • Initially we will be using 16 characters: which will allow for 36¹⁶ possibilities PIDs.
  • The system has been built to allow additional sets of 4 characters to be added to scale the number further if required.
• The search option, provided on this page can be used to find NG PIDs based on names, titles, inventory numbers, etc.