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Europeana APIs

The Europeana APIs provide access to all Europeana data. This course will teach you how to use them.

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About this course

You can access all Europeana data using our APIs. This course provides an in-depth overview of the Europeana APIs, the differences between the various APIs, their features and how you can use them. We will demonstrate all this using our Swagger console.

Requirements

  • Sign up to this course.
  • Headphones to listen to instruction videos if you are in a shared office space.
  • 1 - 2 hours of your time to complete the course, depending on how familiar you are with the subject matter.
  • A decent screen to complete the training. Smartphones are not recommended for this purpose.
  • You should be familiar with Cultural Heritage Data as it is offered on europeana.eu. It will help if you know what Linked Open Data is, but if you need a quick introduction or refresher you can watch this video.
  • The introduction part of this course contains a glossary of technical terms used in the course.

Learning goals

After completing this course you will understand:

  • what an API (Application Programming Interface) is
  • why Europeana has several different APIs
  • what the differences between them are
  • how to use the Europeana APIs
  • how to get an API key
  • how to use the Swagger console to try out API requests
  • what options the different APIs have
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