Introduction to the Europeana hackathon in Poznan
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Hack4Europe! PolandTwitter hashtag: #hack4europe
E-mail list at: http://groups.google.com/group/europeanahackathons
Poznan, June 7-8
David Haskiya, Product Developer
For innovation, for our users, for transparency, for fun.
Why we’re doing it?
• To contribute to the Digital Agenda
• To contribute to innovation!
• To reach more users!
• To demonstrate the rewards of Open!
• To have some fun!
How we’re doing it!The resources at your disposal
• Four hackathons across Europe
• Poznan, Barcelona, London, Stockholm
• The Europeana Search API
• 19 million + metadata records
• The Europeana Linked Data Pilot
• 3.5 million metadata records
Winners to be presented at EU Digital Agenda Summit
The Competition• Greatest commercial potential
• What could bring in the euros?
• Social inclusion/Social impact
• Accessibility, Transparency, Outreach
• Most innovative
• Tech or Ideas
• Audience award
• As voted by you, the developers
So where do I find the technical docs and get started?
Technical Docs.
• Europeana Search API
• http://europeanalabs.eu/wiki/EuropeanaOpenSearchAPI
• Europeana Linked Data Pilot
• http://data.europeana.eu
• Europeana Metadata Documentation
• http://version1.europeana.eu/web/guest/technical-requirements/
A very brief intro, full documentation at EuropeanaLabs
About the API
• OpenSearch standard
• Freetext search
• Freetext index and field specific indices queryable
• Including semantic enrichments
• Spatial and time interval queries
• RSS, JSON and ESE-XML responses
Linked Data PilotEuropeana enters the linked data cloud
• Dereferencable URIs
• Data dumps
• 3.5 million records
• RDF modelled on EDM
• 3.5 million metadata records
What can you find in Europeana?
The Content• 19 million+ metadata records
• With links to digital objects
• Books, letters, newspapers, photos, museum artefacts, etc.
• From 1500+ data providers
• Libraries, Archives, Museums
• In all European languages, from all EU countries and more
What kind of information does each record hold?
The records
• ESE-XML format, see the specs in the documentation!
• Dublin Core + Europeana elements
• Semantic enrichments: Places, Periods, Persons, Subjects
• Links to the landing page and sometimes to the digital objects
• Rights information for the digital objects
Thanks! Let’s get started!!!Questions? I’ll be here during the day and our developer Willem Jan is on standby in The Hague.