Menu

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  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/new-york-public-library-whats-on-the-menu/refs/heads/main/json-schema/new-york-public-library-whats-on-the-menu-menu-schema.json",
  "title": "Menu",
  "description": "A single historical menu in the New York Public Library 'What's on the Menu?' dataset. Each Menu represents one physical menu object (from a restaurant, hotel, steamship, banquet, etc.) that was digitized and crowdsourced-transcribed. Corresponds to a row in Menu.csv.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["id"],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Unique numeric identifier for the menu. Primary key referenced by MenuPage.menu_id."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Name or title of the menu, often the name of the restaurant, establishment, or event hosting it."
    },
    "sponsor": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "The institution, restaurant, hotel, society, or organization that sponsored or hosted the menu."
    },
    "event": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "The occasion or event the menu was created for (e.g. Dinner, Breakfast, Banquet, Anniversary)."
    },
    "venue": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "The type of venue or setting the menu was served in (e.g. Commercial, Social, Professional)."
    },
    "place": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Free-text place name where the menu was used, as transcribed."
    },
    "physical_description": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Description of the physical menu object: dimensions, material, folding, illustration, and condition."
    },
    "occasion": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Specific occasion associated with the menu where distinct from the event."
    },
    "notes": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Curatorial or transcriber notes about the menu."
    },
    "call_number": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "NYPL catalog call number for the physical menu in the library's collection."
    },
    "keywords": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Keyword tags assigned to the menu (historically unused in much of the dataset)."
    },
    "language": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Language(s) the menu is written in."
    },
    "date": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Date the menu was issued or used. Stored as a free-text/ISO date string; precision varies (year only to full date).",
      "examples": ["1900-04-15", "1900"]
    },
    "location": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Establishment or location name where the menu was served."
    },
    "location_type": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Classification of the location (historically sparsely populated)."
    },
    "currency": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Currency in which menu item prices are denominated (e.g. Dollars, Francs)."
    },
    "currency_symbol": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Symbol for the currency used on the menu (e.g. $)."
    },
    "status": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "enum": ["complete", "under review", "under_review", "to transcribe", "to_transcribe", null],
      "description": "Crowdsourcing transcription status of the menu."
    },
    "page_count": {
      "type": ["integer", "null"],
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Number of digitized pages (MenuPage records) belonging to this menu."
    },
    "dish_count": {
      "type": ["integer", "null"],
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Number of distinct dishes (via MenuItem records) appearing on this menu."
    }
  }
}