ogbuaguwizard/african-museum-collections-api

A Laravel API that aggregates, normalizes, and exposes African museum artifact data from multiple open museum collections through a unified schema. # African Museum Artifacts API **Aggregate • Normalize • Preserve • Expose African Cultural Heritage Data** A Laravel-powered platform that aggregates artifact metadata from multiple museum collections, normalizes inconsistent schemas into a unified data model, and exposes a reusable foundation for cultural heritage applications. --- ### Building modern software for museums, galleries, archives, and cultural institutions. --- # Project Overview African cultural heritage is dispersed across museums and cultural institutions worldwide. Every institution exposes its collections differently, making discovery, integration, and preservation difficult. The **African Museum Artifacts API** provides a unified platform that imports data from multiple public museum APIs, normalizes inconsistent metadata into a consistent schema, stores it locally, and prepares it for search, analysis, and future cultural heritage applications. This repository is the **first project** in a Laravel portfolio focused on building production-ready software for the cultural heritage sector. --- # Project Statistics | Metric | Value | | --- | --- | | Museum APIs Integrated | **1 / 9** | | Artifact Records Imported | **0+** | | Normalized Fields | **20+** | | Duplicate Prevention | ✅ | | Import Progress Tracking | ✅ | | Background Imports | ✅ | | UUID Support | ✅ | | Laravel Version | **13** | --- # Features ## Domain Model - UUID primary keys - Eloquent Models - Soft Deletes - Mass Assignment - Attribute Casting - Accessors & Mutators - Local Query Scopes - Model Observers - Factories & Seeders --- ## Import Engine - Metropolitan Museum of Art integration - Metadata normalization - African heritage filtering - Duplicate detection - Batch imports - Offset-based importing - Import progress monitoring - Background import execution - Source metadata preservation --- ## Infrastructure - PostgreSQL - Docker-ready - Feature-based Git workflow - Automatic migrations - Production-ready a …