Why API? Europeana plenary, Leuven, 2012-06-14

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WHY APIat the National Heritage Board, Sweden

Leuven June 14 2012: Europeana Plenary

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The National

Heritage Board

Government agency

Heritage environment

Ancient monuments and historic buildings

Promote heritage as a valuable asset

Insight rather than authoritarian

(not a museum)

Hi, I´m Lars Amréus, new

DG of the Board. I´m on

twitter: @larsamreus

wikimedia

Online

• 800 000 ancient monuments sites (Europeana via Carare)• 80 000 protected buildings (soon in Europeana)• 100 000 images (In Europeana)

THEN:Archaeologist

NOW:New Media & WebLinked open data

IPRLicensingEthos – open

New media team

at the Board

Johan Matilda Sophie Marcus Maria Henrik

SOCH

Platsr.se – digital storyteling

WIR & WdevIR

Carare (Europeana)

Europeana Awareness

Strategy for Digitization

Linked Open Data

IPR and licensing issues

What are we up to?

Why did we decide to implement API?

What are the benefits?

Do you have any suggestions from your experience using the API implementation?

Questions:

Things are changing.

All the time.

Technology. Behaviours.

Why?

New expectations.

New roles.

New behaviours.

Analog >>>>>>>> Digital

We need to adapt in order to stay relevant in a digital society!

- 50 % of 3-year old kids use the Internet

- 96 % of young ppl uses social media

- +65 year fastest growing user group

- Mobile surfing is growing dramtically

[”Swedes and the Internet 2011”. .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) 2011]

Users in SE

- Want to contribute - not only consume!

- Want information now – not in 10 days.

- Want to reuse information!

Users

Abundance of information

- Problem is to find good quality

- Problem is to reuse it

We cannot provide services for all users!

We are not the most innovative app developers!

There´s no point in controlling use!

Insights:

Make things as easy as possible

for as many as possible

to use and reuse information.

New agenda

New agendaFacilitate open access to information via API

(Facilitate mash-ups)

Focus on improving quality!

1723-04-18

Today

GLAMAgencies

create apps for expertsPR

Until recently…

1823-04-18

Today

MuseumsAgenciesUniversitiesAssociationsEnterprisesSchoolsIndividuals

create apps for

learninginternal use

researchPR

experiencescreativity

…or just for fun

Today and future

We don´t always need to be involved!

So what have NHB done so far?

SOCH(Swedish Open Cultural Heritage)

• ”National Europeana”• Museum collections + monuments + buildings• 40 institutions• National – Regional - Local• 4,2 million objects• API - 10 apps • Aggregator for Europeana

“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”

“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/” CC-BY-SA

Läns-museumLäns-

museumLäns-

museumLäns-

museumNationalMusem

SwNHB

History Socities

Regionalmuseum

LocalMuseums

SOCH

WEBSITE/APP

Info manager

XML

Service

API

My Heritage Kringla.nuRegional

Portal

MobileHistory

Google Yellow PagesEuropeana

Site

Local TourismHistoricSociety

OTHER APIs(Europeana, Google,

Wikipedia, LIBRIS etc)

UGChub

API

Läns-museumLäns-

museumLäns-

museumLäns-

museumNationalMusem

SwNHB

History Socities

Regionalmuseum

LocalMuseums

SOCH WebService

KRINGLA.NUMASHUP

Info manager

XML

API

Europeana

UGChub

API

Google Maps(PanoramioStreetview)

API

WikipediaLIBRIS

API

semantic linkstagsgeoreferenceetc

Läns-museumLäns-

museumLäns-

museumLäns-

museumMUSEUMRAÄ

FornsökKommun-museum

Läns-museum

Hembygds-museum

K-SAMSÖK WebService

XML

API

Kringla.nuMuseisök

Google

Tidsresan/Time Mash

UGC

AP

IFornfynd IOS

Wikipedia

Libris?

Q: Why did we decide to implement API?

A: Facilitate a standardized access to data.

Q: What are the benefits?

A: More use of data, varied applications

Q: Suggestions based on experience from API implementation?

A: Be pragmatic, don´t forget licensing

Questions & Answers:

"If your content is not interoperable, it's not findable. If it's not findable, who cares about it?"

k-blogg.se

ksamsok.se

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@arkland_swe

Photos: Lars Lundqvist CC-BY-NC-SA

STATIC INTERACTIVE(SEARCH)

OUTREACH

UGC

INHOUSEUGC

INFRASTUCTUREAPI

APPS

www.raa.se Fornsök

Bebyggelseregistret

Kulturmiljöbild

Kringla.nu

Kringla Android

Kulturvårdsforum

Flickr Commons

Flickr

Facebook

Twitter

Youtube

Yammer

Historypin

Recreate Culture: http://www.flickr.com/groups/recreateculture/pool/with/5253582849/

Platsr

K-blogg.se

(Kringla 2.0)

(Platsr Mobil)Event WP

K-samsök

K-samsök API

Europeana API

Fornfynd IOS

Time Mash Andr.

Tidsmaskinen Andr

Idevio

Wikimedia SE

Hack4Europe.se

Web 2011 many sites