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Update 12-21-21 Registry of Open Data on AWS (https://registry.opendata.aws/smithsonian-open-access/) Repository is divided into unit buckets. Directory listings can be found at (https://smithsonian-open-access.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/metadata/edan/index.txt)
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Over 11 million metadata records from the Smithsonian Institution.
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Files are serialized as line-delimited JSON and
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Directories are organized by owning unit and files are distributed by first two characters of content serialization hash.
Owning units are internal Smithsonian acronyms.
| Code | Description |
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| AAA | Archives of American Art |
| ACM | Anacostia Community Museum |
| CFCHFOLKLIFE | Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections |
| CHNDM | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
| EEPA | Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives |
| FBR | Smithsonian Field Book Project |
| FSG | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery |
| HAC | Smithsonian Gardens |
| HMSG | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
| HSFA | Human Studies Film Archives |
| NAA | National Anthropological Archives |
| NASM | National Air and Space Museum |
| NMAAHC | National Museum of African American History and Culture |
| NMAH | National Museum of American History |
| NMAI | National Museum of the American Indian |
| NMAfA | National Museum of African Art |
| NMNH | National Museum of Natural History |
| NMNHANTHRO | NMNH - Anthropology Dept. |
| NMNHBIRDS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division |
| NMNHBOTANY | NMNH - Botany Dept. |
| NMNHEDUCATION | NMNH - Education & Outreach |
| NMNHENTO | NMNH - Entomology Dept. |
| NMNHFISHES | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division |
| NMNHHERPS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Herpetology Division |
| NMNHINV | NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept. |
| NMNHMAMMALS | NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division |
| NMNHMINSCI | NMNH - Mineral Sciences Dept. |
| NMNHPALEO | NMNH - Paleobiology Dept. |
| NPG | National Portrait Gallery |
| NPM | National Postal Museum |
| NZP | Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute |
| SAAM | Smithsonian American Art Museum |
| SIA | Smithsonian Institution Archives |
| SIL | Smithsonian Libraries |
More information about Open Access at the Smithsonian as well as documentation on metadata schemas can be found at https://www.si.edu/openaccess and https://edan.si.edu/openaccess/docs/.