This page collects presents current and past use cases of platforms, apps, websites and other projects that have used Europeana’s the Europeana APIs in some way. This page can help you find inspiration for your next project using Europeana’s the data that we make available, or can give you insight into how others have used Europeana’s API servicesthe Europeana APIs.
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Current use cases
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
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The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a search engine that gives access to millions of books, magazines and other media from library and book trade catalogs worldwide. Developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT Library), KVK allows users to simultaneously search for content from several library catalogs, including from Europeana.
Gongu
Korean search platform users the Europeana APIs
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Supported by the Korea Copyright Commission, Gongu is a Korean language search engine for cultural content. Through Gongu you can access digital objects and find out about their rights statements. Because Gongu has integrated the Europeana API, you can also discover related content from Europeana using this search engine.
Picryl
Find and use what you need most on the public domain
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Provided by: https://picryl.com/
On This Day
Discover and share images of events that happened on this day in history
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The code is openly licensed.
Creative Commons Search
Locate and enjoy great content
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You can also install CC Search as a custom search engine in most browsers.
Ajapaik / Timepatch
Ajapaik (translated from Estonian to English as 'Timepatch') is a location based site inviting users to look around and add metadata to historical images. It also adds a social and competitive element, with points awarded for contributions made.
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National Library of Ireland catalogue widget
This interface allows simultaneous search of many of the Library's catalogued collections and displays results from Europeana using a sidebar widget.
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This interface allows simultaneous search of many of the Library's catalogued collections, including digitised material. A new feature is that results from Europeana are also returned for every search, using a sidebar widget. The widget shows six items from Europeana with an option to see the full search result on the Europeana portal. Results from the National Library's contributions to Europeana are filtered out to remove duplicates.
Past use cases
Full Text in Python (2019)
The new suite of Python script is developed by Ian Goodale from European Studies of the University of Texas. The tool assists you with searching and downloading full-text records from the Europeana Collections via the Europeana APIs. This is particularly useful if you would like to explore over 4 million historical newspapers from across Europe, currently available on Europeana platform.
Discover more and start using this unique tool!
Bulk Downloader (2017)
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A collection of code snippets (mainly php) for working with the Europeana API. Get bulk downloads of specific subsets of items, including both their metadata and their associated media files, by using this application.
Europeana Bulk downloader on Github
KNReise (2017)
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Supported by KNReise and the Arts Council Norway, this map-demo service displays the artworks from the Europeana 280 campaign by country of origin. Discover Europe's shared cultural heritage using this application!
To learn more about this solution, take a look at other maps. All code is freely available on GitHub.
EEXCESS Moodle Plugin (2016)
Using the Moodle plugin, you can enhance your lessons or homework with content and references to scientific or cultural resources.
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Europeana Colour Explorer (2016)
The Colour Explorer is a demonstrator to showcase the new media metadata filters and colour search available from Europeana
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It can combine colour searches and has options to share via Facebook and Twitter - do share your favourites!
Europeana OAI-PMH Harvester (2016)
PHP based harvester to download all records via the Europeana OAI-PMH Service
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Europeana Blacklight (2016)
Ruby gem providing an adapter to use the Europeana REST API as a data source for Blacklight.
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Open Pics app (2015)
This open source app allows search for images in multiple online collections, such as Europeana, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, California Digital Library, Digital Public Library of America, LIFE Magazine photo archive, National Library of Australia (Trove) and Flickr Commons.
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Find the source code on Github
Museums.eu (2015)
http://Museums.EU describes itself as "The European Museums Network intended to present and promote museums and cultural heritage across Europe".
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For museums that have content in Europeana, live API calls pull in top content and also allow users to search within it.
Photomediations (2015)
Photomediations: An Open Book redesigns a coffee-table book as an online experience.
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The book also contains three open chapters, the content of which can develop and grow over time: a collection of essays about the idea of photomediations; a social space; and an exhibition (coming in 2015-2016). Photomediations: An Open Book is an experiment in open and hybrid publishing – as well as a celebration of the book as a living object. The book is part of Europeana Space, and is made available under the CC BY licence 4.0, though individual licences apply to all included images, as indicated.
Sound Connections (2015)
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Explore sounds from across Europe and help enrich them with contextual information and audio-visual media.
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The Europeana API was used to integrate sound assets from the two content providing Pilot partners; the British Library (BL) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV). Sound Connections is hosted on the community engagement platform Historypin, which is run by Shift Design (formerly We Are What We Do). The code for the Europeana API ingest on Historypin is available on GitHub: github.com/Historypin/europeana-api-ingest
VanGoYourself (2015)
Find and release your inner Van Gogh
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The Challenge Event for the Tourism and Social Networks themes took place in September 2014 in Barcelona. In January 2015 the “Embed VanGoYourself On Your Site” widget was launched. It allows users to embed either a single re-creation or choose a feed of VanGo’d images. A VanGoYourself shop has been set up on the CafePress platform where VGY merchandising articles are available. The team is also negotiating promising partnerships with museums and city marketing initiatives all over the world.
Inventing Europe (2015)
Bringing historians and museums closer together
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Besides the exhibitions, curators from the partner institutions and other experts are invited to expand the contextual stories and contribute their perspectives in the form of new guest-curated tours.
Serendip-o-matic (2015)
Serendip-o-matic connects your sources to digital materials located in libraries, museums, and archives around the world. By first examining your research interests our serendipity engine helps you discover photographs, documents, maps and other primary sources.
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Serendip-o-matic is the product of One Week | One Tool and was built by a team of 12 dynamic scholars, librarians, and students.
CultureCam (2015)
The Culture Cam tool offers a non-text based visual search interface to European cultural heritage.
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Culture Cam is developed by the Danish Design Company Spild ad Tid in collaboration with Aalto University ARTS and The Austrian Institute of Technology.
Memory Match - Natural History edition (2015)
Memory Match – Natural History Edition, is an educational game combining the classic memory game of finding pairs with a quiz game testing player’s knowledge of natural history.
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The complete application code is available on GitHub: github.com/semantikaeu/memorymatch/ enabling programmers to reuse and expand upon it.
Banner source: (en) She's a sack company - https://www.europeana.eu/item/318/marc_nli_004020935. Hadani, Dan. National Library of Israel. CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/