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get saam data

Imports data from API. I constructed a for loop based on the offset divided by the page limit. The ratio in the documentation was offset 20: limit 1 (returns the second page). Each result is saved in a seperate JSON file with 50 records per file.

SAAM FINAL

Structures data by looping through JSON Files and pulling out the relevant data. Creates a table with artists information (SAAM_ArtistTable).

IMPORT ULAN*

An attempt to extract ULAN IDs for each artist, construct ULAN uri (.json file), import results and identify nationality information.

Challenges:

Data is returned in RDF Triples : subject, predicate, object

"Subject" : { "type" : "uri", "value" : "http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500121295-agent" }, "Predicate" : { "type" : "uri", "value" : "http://schema.org/nationality" }, "Object" : { "type" : "uri", "value" : "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300018125" }

Import ULAN pt. 2

Challenges:

"Preferred Nationality" is American for most artists
African American does not return results

Work-around

I pulled each artist's WikiData ID and extracted ethnicity data from the "ethnic group" field, creating a new CSV file for all the people of color (ie non-white artists).

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