Also Known As

Also Known As: Portable poetic identifiers for cultural heritage objects on the web
use the friendly AKA identifier on the left to access the object on the right
our API redirects to all objects in the BLM and Allard Pierson Museum collections
The first 2 words are random adjectives, the last two words come from the object's metadata
We used 4489 German adjectives to generate over 20M unique identifiers
The AKA Firefox extension tells catalogue visitors about the AKA identifier for an object
The AKA API resolves in both directions
The AKA API does content negotiation to either redirect or serve JSON-LD
Also Known As is here for you!

Inspiration

Borges' Library of Babel

What it does

So, you found a museum object online, and now you want to take it with you. Not the actual object of course, but a portable reference to the museum's page for that object. You could store the object's URL somewhere or remember how you queried for it, but that feels like doing a machine's job and you have better things to do. AKA let's you create an memorable, language-friendly identifier you can remember and use to share a reference to your favourite object with anyone who has an internet connection!

Now all you have to do is remember a friendly combination of words like: