Century
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Contains information on the centuries used to describe items in the Harvard Art Museums collections.
Get Centuries
GET /century will get all centuries.
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 |
| usedby | FIELD NAME:ID |
Examples
https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/century
Returns all of the centuries.
Response
{
"info": {
"totalrecordsperquery": 3,
"totalrecords": 47,
"pages": 16,
"page": 1,
"next": "https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/century?size=3&page=2",
"responsetime": "6 ms"
},
"records": [
{
"id": 37525374,
"objectcount": 28,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:52-0500",
"temporalorder": 3,
"name": "6th millennium BCE"
},
{
"id": 37525437,
"objectcount": 378,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:52-0500",
"temporalorder": 9,
"name": "18th century BCE"
},
{
"id": 37525482,
"objectcount": 581,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:52-0500",
"temporalorder": 13,
"name": "14th century BCE"
}
]
}
Get Century
GET /century/CENTURY_ID will get the full record of the specified century.
Examples
https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/century/37525482
Returns the full record for the century 14th century BCE.
Response
{
"id": 37525482,
"name": "14th century BCE",
"objectcount": 581,
"temporalorder": 13,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:52-0500"
}