v2.0.0 — CIDOC-CRM API

v2.0.0 — CIDOC-CRM API

This release introduces v2 of the Design Museum Gent API — a complete rewrite of the data model using pure CIDOC-CRM compliant JSON-LD.

⚠️ v1 is deprecated

v1 remains available at /v1/ until 31 December 2026. All new integrations should use v2 endpoints. See the migration guide for details.

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What's new in v2

Data model

• Pure CIDOC-CRM compliant JSON-LD replacing the mixed Linked Art / OSLO model of v1
• Strict use of crm:E22_Human-Made_Object, crm:E21_Person, crm:E7_Activity, crm:E55_Type
• Provenance via PROV-O (prov:generatedAtTime)

Multilingual support

• All titles and descriptions available in Dutch, French and English via crm:E41_Appellation per language
• Language tags use EU Publications Office language authority URIs

Agents

• Birth and death events modelled as crm:E67_Birth / crm:E69_Death
• Nationality via EU Publications Office country authority
• Wikipedia biographies as crm:E33_Linguistic_Object with CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution
• Wikipedia titles as multilingual crm:E41_Appellation
• Exhibition participation via crm:P12i_was_present_at

Objects

• Production modelled as crm:E12_Production, design as crm:E65_Creation
• Multiple creators supported as array
• Acquisition as crm:E8_Acquisition
• Dimensions as crm:E54_Dimension
• Physical parts via crm:P46_has_component
• Color data as crm:E36_Visual_Item with HEX and CSS color features
• IIIF manifest as crm:E73_Information_Object
• Object resolver — merged objects return 301, removed objects return 410

Exhibitions

• Modelled as crm:E7_Activity
• Objects shown via crm:P16_used_specific_object with internal DMG URIs
• Multilingual titles and descriptions

Concepts

• Modelled as crm:E55_Type with SKOS labels and hierarchy
• skos:broader / skos:narrower enriched with internal DMG URIs
• Multilingual labels and scope notes (translation project ongoing)

Collections

• All entity types available as paginated Hydra collections
• ?fullRecord=true for bulk harvesting
• ?hasImages=true filter on objects collection

Authority links

• All agents, concepts and places resolved to internal DMG URIs where available
• External authority links preserved as owl:sameAs
• Getty AAT, Getty TGN, Getty ULAN, Wikidata, EU Publications Office

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Endpoints

Endpoint	URI
Objects	/v2/id/objects
Object	/v2/id/object/{PID}
Agents	/v2/id/agents
Agent	/v2/id/agent/{PID}
Exhibitions	/v2/id/exhibitions
Exhibition	/v2/id/exhibition/{PID}
Concepts	/v2/id/concepts
Concept	/v2/id/concept/{PID}

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Documentation

Full documentation: data.designmuseumgent.be

v1.0

Merge pull request #66 from oliviervd/master

add versioning