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.

1. Open (meta)Data and Open Content in
Europeana
Open Data Meetup #4, 2013-02-19

2. 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.

3. 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

4. What is Europeana?

5. Europe’s cultural heritage portal
 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

6. What makes up a Europeana record?
Thumbnail/preview
Metadata
Link to digital
objects online

7. Not only a portal, but also an API!
 What’s in the portal is also available in the API

8. Open (meta)Data and Open Content

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. Current licence distribution in Europeana
 We’ve launched a rights labelling campaign to improve this!

13. The Europeana Licensing Framework
The 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.

14. The Europeana API

15. Not only a portal, but also an API!
 What’s in the portal is also available in the API

16. 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.

17. Thank you for your attention!
Questions?

18. 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