The document discusses Europeana's technical interfaces such as its Search API, Linked Open Data pilot, and other tools that allow access to Europeana's cultural heritage data. It provides examples of how organizations in Sweden, Poland, and France have used Europeana's API. The document urges for Open Data licensing to allow developers full use of the data and fuel further creativity, engagement, and economic growth. It envisions Europeana becoming a network that connects cultural heritage institutions and data across Europe.

1. The Europeana API and other
technical interfaces
The potential of Europeana as an Open
Platform and node in a European
Information Space.
More on our Search API:
http://www.version1.europeana.eu/web/api/
More on our Linked Open Data pilot:
http://data.europeana.eu
David Haskiya, Europeana
Helsinki, November 11, 2011

3. Present and planned technical interfaces
Europeana Search API
Europeana API programming libraries and CMS-modules
Europeana Linked Open Data pilot
Europeana RDF data dumps
Europeana OAI-PMH server
Europeana sitemap/browse all for SEO
Europeana widgets

4. What we have
Some examples that may serve as an
inspiration on how the Europeana Search
API could be used by the Finnish Digital
Library and your partner organisations.

5. Kringla, the Swedish national museum portal
www.kringla.nu

6. The CERL Thesaurus
cerl.thesaurus.org

7. The Polish Federated Digital Libraries
http://fbc.pionier.net
.pl/owoc/main

8. What we could have
Some of the prototypes and potential API-
clients we’ve had to say no to.

9. Artfinder, a site to engage with art and other art afficionados

10. INA.fr – the French national audio-visual archives

11. Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons - the world’s largest online encyclopedia

12. Hack4Europe winner of the Commercial Potential Award: Art4Europe

13. Hack4Europe winner of the Inclusion Award: Casual Curator

14. Hack4Europe winner of the Innovation Award: TimeMash

15. Culture, Creativity, Growth and Open Data
Without an Open Data license we can’t move beyond
prototype with any of the examples listed!
Culture: Open Data will allow more people to access
and engage with cultural content
Creativity: Open Data, allowing re-mix and re-use, will
fuel creativity and engagement
Growth: Open Data, allowing anyone to develop
services, will lead to economic growth and increased
demand for what GLAMs can offer

16. Europeana as a platform
and network of data
Europeana and our GLAM-partners cannot
reach our goals by being destination sites
only. To reach out to and engage with users
we need become a network of data, a
European Information Space.

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19. That was it! Questions?
Please contact me if you want to know
more or use our API!
Email: david.haskiya@kb.nl
Twitter: @david.haskiya