Show HN: Ex Situ – open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
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The Index specifically looks at western/euro-american institutions and maps their collection categorised by them under Islamic art, Asian/African art, ethnological collections, Middle East, South America etc.Started as my MA thesis in 2022, kept building since, mostly solo with a little funding.
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Fully open source, self-hosted, AGPL-3.0, Next.js + Deck.gl on the frontend, Strapi backend, Python ETL pulling from museum open-access APIs.
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Currently indexing over 100k artifacts from all over the world, across 8 collections (Met, V&A, SMB Berlin).
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Recently added an md export so researchers can download provenance data for a filtered set of artifacts.The infrastructure is conceptualized as an indexer, not a hoster.
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Even images are kept as URLs pointing to the source institutions.
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