210,000+ records documenting design objects from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The data includes object titles, creator names, historical periods, and physical dimensions across various design disciplines.
Use Cases
- Analyze design trends over time by aggregating the year_start and type columns.
- Build a recommendation engine for museum visitors based on the medium and department_id features.
- Map global design influences by cross-referencing the woe:country identifiers associated with creators.
Strengths
- Contains metadata for over 210,000 objects including id, title, and accession_number.
- Includes detailed participant records linking designers, manufacturers, and donors to specific objects.
- Features medium and dimensions fields for physical material and size analysis.
- Provides year_start and year_end columns for chronological mapping of design trends.