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An introduction to Open (meta)Data at Europeana and how we make it available to developers via our API. Inevitably it also touches on licensing of content.
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Open (meta)Data and Open Content in Europeana
Open Data Meetup #4, 2013-02-19
This is me
Hi,
I’m David Haskiya and I’m the Product Developer at Europeana.
So what does that mean? It means that I translate between GLAM-speak and Development speak to make sure our web sites and other technical tools deliver value to our users.
One of our products I work with is our API. And the API really needs Open Data!
/David
PS. GLAM=Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. DS.
What I hope you’ll be able to take away
Some basic info about Europeana
An overview of our Open Data (metadata and media)
And why we like Open!
An introduction to our API
A quick Q&A
What is Europeana?
26m records from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries
Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers...
Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs…
Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts…
Film, newsreels, television…
Curated exhibitions
31 languages
Europe’s cultural heritage portal
What makes up a Europeana record?
Thumbnail/preview
Metadata
Link to digital objects online
Not only a portal, but also an API!
What’s in the portal is also available in the API
Open (meta)Data and Open Content
Why Open?
Because most metadata are facts and facts are not copyrightable
Titles, dates, identifiers, factual descriptions etc.
Because a large proportion of cultural content is out of copyright
The creators are a lot of dead (70+ years) white guys…
Because the citizen has already (in most cases) paid for it once
Because our mission is to increase public access and re-use and Open Data, Open Content and Open Access facilitates that
Tip: Use CC-BY-SA if you have in copyright content that you don’t want others to exclusively commercially re-use
All metadata Open, some content Open
All the metadata (descriptions of media objects) is CC0 and so free for any reuse
Media objects individually licenced or marked as being in the Public Domain
Must only be reused according to its licence
Not all Europeana objects have an explicit licence but we’re working to gradually improve that
Check out our Terms of Use&Policies
And read our Licensing Framework in full (PDF)
The media object licence in display
Click this licence badge!
And if you’re using the API this licence can be found in the field europeana:rights (API v.1) or edm:rights (API v.2)
Current licence distribution in Europeana
We’ve launched a rights labelling campaign to improve this!
The Europeana Licensing FrameworkThe Framework consists of:
Europeana Data Exchange Agreement
Creative Commons Zero Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0 waiver) for metadata
Europeana Data Use Guidelines
Europeana Terms for User Contributions
EDM:rights field of the Europeana Data Model for content/media
These elements ensure all data can be aggregated and freely re-used.
The Europeana API
Not only a portal, but also an API!
What’s in the portal is also available in the API
The Europeana API
API v.1 in production since early 2011
API v.2 to be released in March but is already in beta
• Sign-up and get started with your implementation
• When released API v.1 will be supported but won’t be developed further
API v.2 allows a developer to programmatically access all search and retrieval functions available in the portal
Our latest (API2) partner implementation is from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) search service OpenAGRIS
Search e.g. for pesticides or olea europaea (latin for olive tree)
The API allows our partners and third parties to build specialized applications using all or selections of our functionality and content
And in so doing they can adapt Europeana content to their user’s needs and requirements. As FAO has done.
Thank you for your attention!
Questions?
Find out about our API services Europeana portal europeana.eu
• New portal and API preview http://preview.europeana.eu
• API v.2 console http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/api/console.html
• API v.2 sign-up http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/api/registration.html
Europeana Professional pro.europeana.eu
• API pages http://pro.europeana.eu/api
• API case studies http://pro.europeana.eu/case-studies
• Professional blog pro.europeana.eu/blog
Europeana Linked Open Data http://data.europeana.eu
Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/EuropeanaEU
Or on Linked In linkedin.com/groups/Europeana-134927/about