museum-digital resolver
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Available vocabularies
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Using this API, you can search contents from museum-digital. It is available for the following types:

- institution
- object
- actor
- place
- tag

Use cases
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https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver                                        Displays this help information
https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver/{type}                                 Lists all databases linked to the given type of data at museum-digital
https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver/{type}/{source}                        Presents a Beacon concordance list between museum-digital and the target database (see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BEACON [German])
https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver/{type}/{source}/{source_id}            Redirects to the corresponding entity on museum-digital

Examples
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https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver/actor/gnd                              Presents a concordance list between actor information on museum-digital and the Gemeinsame Normdatei
https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver/place/geonames/2950159                 Redirects to the museum-digital page for "Berlin"

Additional parameters
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The following additional parameters can be appended to URLs to request alternative outputs.

https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver/actor/gnd?beaconHideLocal=1            Appending '?beaconHideLocal=1' to the request URL of a beacon concordance list presents that list in the alternative, more concise form.
https://global.museum-digital.org/resolver/place/geonames/2950159?noReferral=1    Using the GET parameter 'noReferral' when requesting a single entity disables HTTP redirects and returns the target link in plain text instead.