# OpenAccess

## Smithsonian Open Access Metadata Repository (GitHub)


-!! Maintenance Note.. We have transitioned away from GitHub for our compressed archive.. 
 
- Update 12-21-21
 Registry of Open Data on AWS (https://registry.opendata.aws/smithsonian-open-access/)
 Repository is divided into unit buckets.
 Directory listings can be found at (https://smithsonian-open-access.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/metadata/edan/index.txt)

- Over 11 million metadata records from the Smithsonian Institution.
- Files are serialized as [line-delimited
  JSON](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_streaming#Line-delimited_JSON) and
- Directories are organized by owning unit and files are distributed by first
  two characters of content serialization hash.

Owning units are internal Smithsonian acronyms.

Code | Description
--- | ---
AAA | Archives of American Art
ACM | Anacostia Community Museum
CFCHFOLKLIFE | Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
CHNDM | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
EEPA | Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
FBR | Smithsonian Field Book Project
FSG | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
HAC | Smithsonian Gardens
HMSG | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
HSFA | Human Studies Film Archives
NAA | National Anthropological Archives
NASM | National Air and Space Museum
NMAAHC | National Museum of African American History and Culture
NMAH | National Museum of American History
NMAI | National Museum of the American Indian
NMAfA | National Museum of African Art
NMNH | National Museum of Natural History
NMNHANTHRO | NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
NMNHBIRDS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
NMNHBOTANY | NMNH - Botany Dept.
NMNHEDUCATION | NMNH - Education & Outreach
NMNHENTO | NMNH - Entomology Dept.
NMNHFISHES | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division
NMNHHERPS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Herpetology Division
NMNHINV | NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.
NMNHMAMMALS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division
NMNHMINSCI | NMNH - Mineral Sciences Dept.
NMNHPALEO | NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.
NPG | National Portrait Gallery
NPM | National Postal Museum
NZP | Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
SAAM | Smithsonian American Art Museum
SIA | Smithsonian Institution Archives
SIL | Smithsonian Libraries

More information about Open Access at the Smithsonian as well as documentation
on metadata schemas can be found at <https://www.si.edu/openaccess> and
<https://edan.si.edu/openaccess/docs/>.