POP, the open heritage platform
The Open Heritage Platform is a tool for disseminating cultural resources, designed as part of a state-owned start-up supported by the Prime Minister’s services. Launched in 2019, it brings together nearly 4 million records documenting French cultural property: paintings, sculptures, architectures, objects of art, photographs, illuminations; public or private property; property held in museums of France or libraries; property classified or listed under Historical Monuments, studied by the regional departments of the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage, labeled Contemporary Architecture or Houses of Illustres.
These data come from heritage databases created by the Ministry of Culture since the late 1970s:
- Base Joconde: collective catalogue of collections of museums in France.
- Base Mérimée: architectural heritage (buildings), protected under the title of Historical Monuments or listed under the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage.
- Palissy base: movable heritage (movable objects), protected under the title of Historical Monuments or listed under the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage.
- Base Mémoire: photographs preserved by the central services (Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine) and decentralized of the Ministry of Culture, as well as by the regional services of the Inventory général du patrimoine culturel.
- Base MNR Rose Valland: online catalogue of MNR (National Museums Recovery) assets stolen during the Second World War.
- Base Muséofile: directory of museums in France.
- Base Autor: directory of the producers of funds preserved at the Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (MAP), directory of glass painters, mostly active in the 19th and 20th centuries, and directory of goldsmiths registered at the Garantie de Paris in the 20th century.
- Base Illuminations: digital reproductions of illuminations and decorative elements of medieval manuscripts preserved in a hundred French municipal libraries.
Besides the free consultation of all textual and photographic resources online, POP allows their reuse by other applications through a sharing, total or partial, in open date. POP’s developments are in open code and most of its contents (databases Mona Lisa, Palissy, Mérimée and Muséofile) are accessible in open data on the platforms data.culture.gouv.fr and data.gouv.fr.
POP is enriched daily and incorporates new protections or the result of the deposit of catalogues or identification of assets of heritage interest. Users are invited to report any errors or inaccuracies they find.
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