Metadata of PARC - Portal for African Research Collections

PARC is the meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel. It contains more than 250'000 objects, books, photographs, posters from the University of Basel, Mission 21, the Basler Afrika Bibliographien, the Swiss TPH, the Museum der Kulturen Basel and more.

The full metadata of PARC is available as an open dataset.

Some remarks : * The normalized metadata from PARC is available in .csv or .json format (files parc-portal.csv and parc-portal.json). There is a link to the iiif manifests of the images * The raw metadata delivered by the institutions is also available in the corresponding folder * Please note that only the metadata is in the public domain, not the images

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Identifier parc-portal-metadata@openglam
Title for URL of the dataset Metadata of PARC - Portal for African Research Collections
Schedule the publication of the dataset August 30, 2023
Issued date August 30, 2023
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Publisher Information PARC - Platform for African Research Collections
Contact points Reto Ulrich
Languages Language independent
URL https://parc-portal.org
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Terms of use https://opendata.swiss/terms-of-use#terms_open
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