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The Europeana APIDevelopment plans and Hackathons
ePSIplatform conference 2012
David Haskiya, Product Developer
A little bit about our API
The Europeana API version 1.0Version 1.0 launched in 2011
Based on the OpenSearch standard
Available to the Europeana network only
About 20 implementations of the API in production
And about 70 prototype API implementations
• Product marketing and Developer Outreach• Simple website on Europeana Pro• Simple documentation in Europeana Labs• 5 Hackathons that were extremely successful• We’ve learnt a lot that will go into API-updates and developer
outreach• And they really helped us to build momentum for Open
Poznan
Stockholm
Hack4Europe winner of the Inclusion Award: Casual Curator
The Europeana API version 2.0 (Q3 2012)
Is under developmentSimpler for developers (REST,JSON)
More powerful (anything we can do, you can do)
More scalable (logging, throttling, direct sign-up)
Better documented (interactive docs, API console)
Serves content in Europeana Data Model (EDM)
Is paired with a Development Outreach ProgrammeHack4Europe 2012 part of that programme
Will be an Open APIMade possible by the new Data Exchange Agreement
And another bit on Developer Outreach
Hack4Europe 2012
Copenhaguen, May 10-11Warzaw, also May, exact date tbaLeuven, June 13-14And probably one or two more, places and dates to be announced!Results and winners of the competition to be awarded at the Digital Agenda Summit in Brussels, June 21-22
What would you build?Surprise us!
David Haskiya, Product Developer