Europeana API - Example of Use in Polish Digital Libraries
Adam Dudczak, Agnieszka Lewandowska, Marcin Werla · 2011
Europeana is a pan-European metadata aggregator of information about cultural heritage objects published on-line by various European memory institutions. Since February 2011 Europeana publicly exposes API, which main purpose is to provide easier access to the Europeana data. During the pilot stage of the API deployment, cooperation between Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Europeana Foundation was established to create prototype API-based applications for two PSNC's services. This cooperation was later extended to co- organize Polish edition of Hack4Europe event in June 2011- one of the four hackathons aimed to show the potential of open cultural heritage data. The objective of this paper is to present a case study of the adoption of the Europeana API in a country scale digital libraries infrastructure in Poland and also to describe the results of the Polish edition of the Europeana API hackathon.