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title: What an AI agent reads on Smithsonian National Carousel · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/smithsonian.com/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Smithsonian National Carousel

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. This is that view of [smithsonian.com](https://www.smithsonian.com/carousel/), from the copy the scanner kept.

7,928

characters of text without JavaScript

Organization

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Smithsonian National Carousel | Shop, Read, Watch, Travel with Smithsonian · language en. First 1,800 of 7,928 characters:

```
Smithsonian National Carousel | Shop, Read, Watch, Travel with Smithsonian Skip to main content SHOP READ WATCH TRAVEL SMITHSONIAN Shop Smithsonian Store Online Store Museum Stores Smithsonian Books (opens in new tab) Recent Releases (opens in new tab) Upcoming Titles (opens in new tab) Branded Products Group Sales / Reservations (opens in new tab) Product Submissions Read Smithsonian Magazine (opens in new tab) Renew Subscription (opens in new tab) New Subscription (opens in new tab) Give a Gift Subscription (opens in new tab) Smithsonian Books (opens in new tab) Recent Releases (opens in new tab) Upcoming Titles (opens in new tab) Branded Products Smithsonian Flight: The Complete History Of Aviation (opens in new tab) Smithsonian American Women (opens in new tab) Watch Smithsonian Channel (opens in new tab) TV Schedule (opens in new tab) Shows (opens in new tab) Ways To Watch (opens in new tab) Smithsonian Theaters (opens in new tab) Lockheed Martin IMAX (opens in new tab) Airbus IMAX (opens in new tab) Group Sales (opens in new tab) Branded Products History Of The World Map by Map (opens in new tab) Travel Smithsonian Journeys (opens in new tab) Find Your Journey (opens in new tab) Special Offers (opens in new tab) Free Catalog (opens in new tab) Trip Type Land Journeys (opens in new tab) Ocean Cruising (opens in new tab) River Cruising (opens in new tab) Active Journeys (opens in new tab) Cultural Stay (opens in new tab) Special Interest (opens in new tab) Tailor Made (opens in new tab) Destinations Europe (opens in new tab) Africa (opens in new tab) Asia (opens in new tab) South America (opens in new tab) North America (opens in new tab) Central America/Caribbean (opens in new tab) Australia & The Pacific (opens in new tab) Polar (opens in new tab) About Leadership
```

 Facts

## What it can state about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | Organization |
| Name | Smithsonian.com | Shop, Read, Watch, Travel |
| Telephone | 202-633-6080 (a tel: link, not structured) |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 4 (Organization, WebSite) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [www.si.edu/groupsales/?utm_source=smithsoniancom&utm_medium=referral&u](https://www.si.edu/groupsales/?utm_source=smithsoniancom&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=navbar) | booking | an unrecognised third party |

Everything here comes from one fetch of the homepage as a crawler; the [report](https://directindex.org/r/smithsonian.com) turns it into a score and fixes, with a kit to paste.

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Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Scores under the same licence.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","founder":{"@type":"Person","name":"Antonio Curado"},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```