Technique

Contains information on the techniques (the process by which an object is created) used in the production of items in the Harvard Art Museums. Technique labels are created and assigned by Harvard Art Museums curators.

Get Techniques

GET /technique will get list of techniques used to make items in the collection.

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/technique
Returns all of the techniques.

Response

{
    "info": {
        "totalrecordsperquery": 3,
        "totalrecords": 306,
        "pages": 102,
        "page": 1,
        "next": "https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/technique?size=3&page=2",
        "responsetime": "5 ms"
    },
    "records": [
        {
            "objectcount": 171,
            "id": 585,
            "lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:52-0500",
            "name": "Softground etching",
            "techniqueid": 585
        },
        {
            "objectcount": 6,
            "id": 2568,
            "lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:52-0500",
            "name": "Woven, twill",
            "techniqueid": 2568
        },
        {
            "objectcount": 7,
            "id": 2809,
            "lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:52-0500",
            "name": "Assemblage",
            "techniqueid": 2809
        }
    ]
}

Get Technique

GET /technique/TECHNIQUE_ID will get detailed info about a technique.

Examples

https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/technique/7317
Returns the full record for the technique “Red-figure”.

Response

{
    "techniqueid": 7317,
    "name": "Red-figure",
    "objectcount": 34,
    "id": 7317,
    "lastupdate": "2015-01-09T04:12:32-0500",
    "contains": {
        "groups": [
            {
                "name": "Collection Highlights",
                "groupid": 2039923
            },
            {
                "name": "Artstor Digital Library",
                "groupid": 2040173
            },
            {
                "name": "Google Art Project",
                "groupid": 2040174
            }
        ]
    }
}