> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dataerai.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Import from the National Gallery of Art

> Search the National Gallery of Art collection (Washington, DC) and import artworks into a project as metadata-first assets — without copying the bytes into Dataerai. Each artwork's image streams straight from the Gallery's IIIF server.

Dataerai can pull artworks from the [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/) (Washington, DC) — the 130,000+ works in its [Open Data Program](https://github.com/NationalGalleryOfArt/opendata) — into one of your projects as **metadata-first assets**. Each artwork's metadata — title, artist, medium, dimensions, date, accession number, classification, credit line, and more — is copied into Dataerai so it's searchable and shareable alongside your own data. The **image is not copied**: clicking **Download** on an imported asset streams the work's full-resolution image directly from the Gallery's IIIF server. The Download is "blind" — for works without an open-access image (where there is no data file), it simply opens the work's public page on nga.gov instead.

<Note>
  Imported assets are [metadata-first](/data/metadata-first-assets): they describe and link to data that lives at the National Gallery of Art. Nothing is stored in your Dataerai allocation, so importing doesn't consume your quota.
</Note>

One artwork (a numeric NGA object id, e.g. `66460`) imports as **one asset**. The National Gallery of Art Open Data is released into the public domain under CC0.

## Search the collection

Open the user menu (top right) → **Import data**, choose **National Gallery of Art**, then enter a search term and click **Search**.

* The search is free text matched against the **artwork title**, the **artist**, and the **accession number**. Try `Degas`, `Little Dancer`, or `1985.64.62`.
* Results show **Title**, **Type**, and **Date**, with the artist and NGA object id under each title.
* Use **Per page** (25, 100, 500, or 1000) to trade clicks for a longer page. The page count reflects the full result set, so you can page to the last page directly.

## Select and import

<Steps>
  <Step title="Select artworks">
    Tick the artworks you want — click a row, or press Space or Enter on it, to toggle its checkbox. The header checkbox selects or clears everything on the current page; your selection is kept as you page through results.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the destination project">
    Paste the UUID of the project that should own the new assets into the **Import into project** field.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Import">
    Click **Import**. Large selections are sent in batches automatically, and a single **Import result** panel summarizes how many artworks were imported (and how many new assets were created), plus any that failed and why.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Rich artwork metadata

Each imported asset captures far more than the title. On the asset you'll find the **medium**, **dimensions**, **display date**, **accession number**, **credit line**, **classification**, **provenance**, and the artist's identifiers (ULAN and Wikidata), plus the work's style, school, theme, technique, and keyword terms. The artist is recorded as a credited author, and the work's style and classification become tags so you can filter by them.

<Warning>
  Because imported assets point at the National Gallery of Art rather than your own storage, their images are only available while the Gallery serves them. If you need a durable copy under your control, download the image and [upload it](/data/upload) as a regular asset instead.
</Warning>

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Metadata-first assets" icon="file-plus" href="/data/metadata-first-assets">
    How assets that describe data elsewhere work in Dataerai.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Import from the Crystallography Open Database" icon="atom" href="/data/import-cod">
    Pull public-domain crystal structures the same metadata-first way.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Organize into collections" icon="folder-tree" href="/organize/collections">
    Group imported artworks alongside your own data.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Search & discover" icon="search" href="/discover/search">
    Find imported artworks by title, artist, type, and metadata.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>