API Suite
The table below aims to help you choose the API that best suites your needs by correlating the kind of resource you are looking for with the function you intend to do with it.
Type of resource | search | retrieval | display | recommendation | contribute | harvest / download |
Record Information about a cultural heritage object
| ✅SPARQL | ✅IIIF APIs | ✅Recommend API | ❌ | ||
Entity Information about contextual resources that are related to the cultural heritage object | ✅SPARQL |
| ❌ | ❌ | ||
User Set (ie. Gallery) Information about galleries created by end-users
| ✅User Set API | ✅User Set API | ❌ | ✅User Set API | ❌ | |
Text Content Digitized text extracted from images or a/v resources | ✅Fulltext API | ✅Fulltext API | ✅IIIF APIs | ❌ | ✅Fulltext API | ✅Downloads (partially) |
Annotation Complementary information about cultural heritage objects | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |