Smithsonian Open Access

The Smithsonian’s mission is the "increase and diffusion of knowledge" and has been collecting since 1846. The Smithsonian, through its efforts to digitize its multidisciplinary collections, has created millions of digital assets and related metadata describing the collection objects. On February 25th, 2020, the Smithsonian released over 2.8 million CC0 interdisciplinary 2-D and 3-D images, related metadata, and additionally, research data from researches across the Smithsonian. The 2.8 million "open access" collections are a subset of the Smithsonian’s 155 million objects, 2.1 million library volumes and 156,000 cubic feet of archival collections held in 19 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo. Digitization of collections is ongoing.

史密森尼学会致力于‘知识之增长与传播’的使命，自1846年起便开始了收藏活动。通过不懈努力，该学会将多学科收藏进行数字化处理，从而创造了数百万件数字资产及相关元数据，用以描述收藏物品。2020年2月25日，史密森尼学会发布了超过280万件享有CC0授权的跨学科二维和三维图像、相关元数据，以及来自史密森尼学会各研究领域的科研数据。这280万件‘开放获取’的收藏构成了史密森尼学会1550万件收藏品、210万册图书及15.6万立方英尺档案收藏的一部分，这些收藏分布在19个博物馆、9个研究中心、图书馆、档案馆及国家动物园。史密森尼学会的收藏数字化工作仍在持续进行中。