creativecommons/quantifying

Add Museum Victoria as data source

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#215 opened on Oct 28, 2025

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help wanted✨ goal: improvement🏁 status: ready for work💻 aspect: code🟩 priority: low

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Description

Problem

Museum Victoria (API documentation): Museums Victoria is Australia’s largest public museum organisation, and the principal custodian of the State’s scientific, cultural and heritage collections. Its API provides access to meta data on licenses, use rights and open access. We can also get information on article type, image license, display location, locality, museum location, etc. There are 150,000 objects available.

API information

  • No API key required
  • No query limit
  • At the moment it only supports the GET verb and responses are in JSON only.

License information (Reference)

All of the text published on the site is licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. But the license for images, sounds and audio-visual material are distributed across different licenses.

Interesting questions to ask:

  • The percentage of CC license are being used
  • The distribution of license type for images and audios
  • What proportion of images, audios fall under public domain?

Contributor guide

Research direction
Explore the Museum Victoria API documentation, fetch sample data, and understand the license fields. Then adapt the data into the project's existing data model.
Tech stack
python
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Half day
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
PythonHTTP requestsJSON
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
70