Activity

Contains information on activities specific to objects in the Harvard Art Museums collections.

Get Activities

GET /activity will get all activities.

Include one or more of the following parameters to filter the items.

Parameter	Value
apikey	YOUR API KEY required
q	FIELD:VALUE (see Elasticsearch Query String syntax for more options)
size	0-9+
page	0-9+
sort	FIELD NAME or "random" or "random:[SEED NUMBER]"
sortorder	asc or desc
fields	comma separated list of data fields you want in the output
aggregation	see Elasticsearch aggregations
id	pipe separated list of record IDs
object	OBJECT ID or pipe separated list of OBJECT IDs
type	"edits", "pageviews", "uniquepageviews", "moves", "conservation", "studycenterviews"

Several types of activities are available via this endpoint. They are described in the activitytype field.

Edits refers to the number of times the descriptive data for an object has changed on a given day. This gives you no indication of what specifically has changed.

Pageviews refers to the number of times an object was visited on the museum's public website on a given day.

Unique Pageviews refers to the number of unique times an object was visited on the museum's public website on a given day. This number is equal to or lower than pageviews.

Conservation refers to the number of times an object had a conservation report written about on a given day.

Moves refers to the number of times an object was physically moved on a given day. A move could be from one storage to location to another storage location. It could be storage to a gallery and so on.

Study Center Views refers to the number of times an object was viewed in the Art Study Center on a given day.

Examples

https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/activity?object=6772
Returns all of the activity for the Marianne Brandt’s "Untitled [with Anna May Wong]".

Response

{
    "info": {
        "totalrecordsperquery": 5,
        "totalrecords": 2387,
        "pages": 478,
        "page": 1,
        "next": "https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/activity?object=6772&size=5&page=2",
        "responsetime": "4 ms"
    },
    "records": [
        {
            "id": 1263375660,
            "objectid": 6772,
            "date": "2023-03-02",
            "activitytype": "pageviews",
            "activitycount": 3,
            "lastupdate": "2023-03-09T14:41:31-0500"
        },
        {
            "id": 105307199,
            "objectid": 6772,
            "date": "2023-03-06",
            "activitytype": "uniquepageviews",
            "activitycount": 2,
            "lastupdate": "2023-03-09T14:41:35-0500"
        },
        {
            "id": 105306334,
            "objectid": 6772,
            "date": "2023-03-02",
            "activitytype": "uniquepageviews",
            "activitycount": 3,
            "lastupdate": "2023-03-09T14:42:03-0500"
        },
        {
            "id": 1263374795,
            "objectid": 6772,
            "date": "2023-03-06",
            "activitytype": "pageviews",
            "activitycount": 2,
            "lastupdate": "2023-03-09T14:42:14-0500"
        },
        {
            "id": 1483504890,
            "objectid": 6772,
            "date": "2022-12-13",
            "activitytype": "pageviews",
            "activitycount": 1,
            "lastupdate": "2022-12-14T12:16:04-0500"
        }
    ]
}

Get Activity

GET /activity/ACTIVITY_ID will get the full record of the specified activity.

Examples

https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/activity/1483504890
Returns the full record for activity with the ID number 1483504890.

Response

    {
        "id": 1483504890,
        "objectid": 6772,
        "date": "2022-12-13",
        "activitytype": "pageviews",
        "activitycount": 1,
        "lastupdate": "2022-12-14T12:16:04-0500"
    }