Data Access

All Dictionary of Art Historians content is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike International License. However you use our data, please cite us. Entries data are available via a JSON API: https://arthistorians.info/api/v0/art-historians. We can make the data available in CSV or XML upon request. If you have questions about downloading data or the data dictionary below, please contact hannah [dot] jacobs [at] duke [dot] edu.

Data Dictionary

The following explains how we have defined each entry field. Where possible, we have mapped fields to the Dublin Core metadata standard. Vocabularies we use include the The Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), The Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), and Homosaurus. When necessary, we have implemented additional localized terms.