Support

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Contains information on the suports (the surface upon which media have been applied during the making of an object) used to describe items in the Harvard Art Museums collections. This information is oftentimes provided by the Harvard Art Museums' conservators as a result of their expertise, technical examination, and/or analysis.

Get Supports

GET /support will get all supports.

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

ParameterValue
apikeyYOUR API KEY required
qFIELD:VALUE (see Elasticsearch Query String syntax for more options)
size0-9+
page0-9+
sortFIELD NAME or "random" or "random:[SEED NUMBER]"
sortorderasc or desc
fieldscomma separated list of data fields you want in the output
aggregationsee Elasticsearch aggregations
idpipe separated list of record IDs
usedbyFIELD NAME:ID
level[0-9+]
parent[0-9+]

Examples

https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/support
Returns all of the supports.

Response

{
    "info": {
        "totalrecordsperquery": 3,
        "totalrecords": 362,
        "pages": 121,
        "page": 1,
        "next": "https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/support?size=3&page=2",
        "responsetime": "6 ms"
    },
    "records": [
        {
            "pathforward": "wood\\",
            "parentsupportid": 2028322,
            "level": 2,
            "objectcount": null,
            "name": "ebony",
            "id": 2038687,
            "supportid": 2038687,
            "lastupdate": "2023-03-01T09:17:22-0500",
            "haschildren": 0
        },
        {
            "pathforward": "wood\\",
            "parentsupportid": 2028322,
            "level": 2,
            "objectcount": null,
            "name": "walnut",
            "id": 2038689,
            "supportid": 2038689,
            "lastupdate": "2023-03-01T09:17:22-0500",
            "haschildren": 0
        },
        {
            "pathforward": "wood\\",
            "parentsupportid": 2028322,
            "level": 2,
            "objectcount": 5,
            "name": "spruce",
            "id": 2035315,
            "supportid": 2035315,
            "lastupdate": "2023-03-01T09:17:22-0500",
            "haschildren": 0
        }
    ]
}

Get Support

GET /support/SUPPORT_ID will get the full record of the specified support.

Examples

https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/support/2035314
Returns the full record for the support slate.

Response

{
    "id": 2035314,
    "supportid": 2035314,
    "name": "slate",
    "pathforward": "stone\\",
    "parentsupportid": 2028653,
    "haschildren": 0,
    "level": 2,
    "objectcount": 2,
    "lastupdate": "2023-03-01T09:17:22-0500"
}