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The slides for my introduction of the Europeana Search API and Linked Open Data pilot at the EuropeanaTech Hackathon, October 3-5 2011.
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Vienna, October 3 -5
David Haskiya, Product Developer
EuropeanaTech HackathonTwitter hashtag: #hack4europe or #eTech11API-key: On the flipchartE-mail list at: http://groups.google.com/group/europeanahackathons
Welcome to the hack!What’s our goals?
• Broad development themes:
• Multi-lingual solutions
• Semantic features
• Let your curiosity guide you!
• If in doubt: Have fun!
So where do I find the technical docs and get started?
Technical Docs.
• Europeana Search API
• http://europeanalabs.eu/wiki/EuropeanaOpenSearchAPI
• Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot
• http://data.europeana.eu
• Europeana Metadata Documentation
• http://version1.europeana.eu/web/guest/technical-requirements/
A very brief intro, full documentation at EuropeanaLabs
About the API
• OpenSearch standard
• Freetext search
• Freetext index and field specific indices queryable
• Including semantic enrichments
• Spatial and time interval queries
• RSS, JSON and ESE-XML responses
Linked Data PilotEuropeana in the linked data cloud
• Dereferencable URIs
• Data dumps
• c. 3.5 million records
• RDF modelled on EDM
What can you find in Europeana?
The Content• 19 million+ metadata records
• With links to digital objects
• Books, letters, newspapers, photos, museum artefacts, etc.
• From 1500+ data providers
• Libraries, Archives, Museums
• In all European languages, from all EU countries and more
What kind of information does each record returned by the API hold?
The records I
• ESE-XML format, see the specs in the documentation!
• Dublin Core + Europeana elements
• Semantic enrichments: Places, Periods, Persons, Subjects
• Links to the landing page and sometimes to the digital objects
• Rights information for the digital objects
The Linked Open Data RDF
The records II
• Data in RDF
• Expressed according to EDM
• All specs and data at: data.europeana.eu
Thanks! Questions? I’ll be here during the day and our developer Willem Jan is on standby in The Hague.