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WHY APIat the National Heritage Board, Sweden
Leuven June 14 2012: Europeana Plenary
[www.slideshare.net/surikat]
The National
Heritage Board
Government agency
Heritage environment
Ancient monuments and historic buildings
Promote heritage as a valuable asset
Insight rather than authoritarian
(not a museum)
Hi, I´m Lars Amréus, new
DG of the Board. I´m on
twitter: @larsamreus
wikimedia
Online
• 800 000 ancient monuments sites (Europeana via Carare)• 80 000 protected buildings (soon in Europeana)• 100 000 images (In Europeana)
SOCH
Platsr.se – digital storyteling
WIR & WdevIR
Carare (Europeana)
Europeana Awareness
Strategy for Digitization
Linked Open Data
IPR and licensing issues
What are we up to?
Why did we decide to implement API?
What are the benefits?
Do you have any suggestions from your experience using the API implementation?
Questions:
- 50 % of 3-year old kids use the Internet
- 96 % of young ppl uses social media
- +65 year fastest growing user group
- Mobile surfing is growing dramtically
[”Swedes and the Internet 2011”. .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) 2011]
Users in SE
- Want to contribute - not only consume!
- Want information now – not in 10 days.
- Want to reuse information!
Users
We cannot provide services for all users!
We are not the most innovative app developers!
There´s no point in controlling use!
Insights:
New agendaFacilitate open access to information via API
(Facilitate mash-ups)
Focus on improving quality!
1823-04-18
Today
MuseumsAgenciesUniversitiesAssociationsEnterprisesSchoolsIndividuals
create apps for
learninginternal use
researchPR
experiencescreativity
…or just for fun
Today and future
SOCH(Swedish Open Cultural Heritage)
• ”National Europeana”• Museum collections + monuments + buildings• 40 institutions• National – Regional - Local• 4,2 million objects• API - 10 apps • Aggregator for Europeana
“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”
“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/” CC-BY-SA
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SwNHB
History Socities
Regionalmuseum
LocalMuseums
SOCH
WEBSITE/APP
Info manager
XML
Service
API
My Heritage Kringla.nuRegional
Portal
MobileHistory
Google Yellow PagesEuropeana
Site
Local TourismHistoricSociety
OTHER APIs(Europeana, Google,
Wikipedia, LIBRIS etc)
UGChub
API
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SwNHB
History Socities
Regionalmuseum
LocalMuseums
SOCH WebService
KRINGLA.NUMASHUP
Info manager
XML
API
Europeana
UGChub
API
Google Maps(PanoramioStreetview)
API
WikipediaLIBRIS
API
semantic linkstagsgeoreferenceetc
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museumMUSEUMRAÄ
FornsökKommun-museum
Läns-museum
Hembygds-museum
K-SAMSÖK WebService
XML
API
Kringla.nuMuseisök
Tidsresan/Time Mash
UGC
AP
IFornfynd IOS
Wikipedia
Libris?
Q: Why did we decide to implement API?
A: Facilitate a standardized access to data.
Q: What are the benefits?
A: More use of data, varied applications
Q: Suggestions based on experience from API implementation?
A: Be pragmatic, don´t forget licensing
Questions & Answers:
"If your content is not interoperable, it's not findable. If it's not findable, who cares about it?"
STATIC INTERACTIVE(SEARCH)
OUTREACH
UGC
INHOUSEUGC
INFRASTUCTUREAPI
APPS
www.raa.se Fornsök
Bebyggelseregistret
Kulturmiljöbild
Kringla.nu
Kringla Android
Kulturvårdsforum
Flickr Commons
Flickr
Youtube
Yammer
Historypin
Recreate Culture: http://www.flickr.com/groups/recreateculture/pool/with/5253582849/
Platsr
K-blogg.se
(Kringla 2.0)
(Platsr Mobil)Event WP
K-samsök
K-samsök API
Europeana API
Fornfynd IOS
Time Mash Andr.
Tidsmaskinen Andr
Idevio
Wikimedia SE
Hack4Europe.se
Web 2011 many sites