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	✅Search API ✅SPARQL	✅Record API	✅IIIF APIs	✅Recommend API	❌	✅OAI-PMH ✅Downloads
Entity Information about contextual resources that are related to the cultural heritage object	✅Entity API ✅SPARQL	✅Entity API	❌		✅Entity API	❌
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 Search API	✅Fulltext API	✅IIIF APIs	❌	✅Fulltext API	✅Downloads (partially)
Annotation Complementary information about cultural heritage objects	✅Annotation API	✅Annotation API	❌	❌	✅Annotation API	❌