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.