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

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Or on Linked In linkedin.com/groups/Europeana-134927/about