[open-bibliography] Europeana opens up data on 20 million cultural items

[Tom Morris]

Thanks very much for the updates Jori, Jonathan, & Valentine.  It sounds
like the future situation will be great, so I just need to wait a little
while longer.

Unfortunately, intercontinental travel just for a hackathon isn't really an
option for me, so I won't be able to get all the early access benes being
offered to attendees, but hopefully it won't be too much later that they're
generally available.

Tom

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Valentine Charles
<Valentine.Charles at kb.nl>wrote:

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> To complement Joris’s email, I would like to let you know that we are
> still working at Europeana on the generation of new dumps for the page
> http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/datasets. ****
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> We will also update our documentation to reflect the changes. In the
> meantime you can still experiment with the subset of CC0 data available at
> http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/datasets. ****
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> Best wishes, ****
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> Valentine ****
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> *From:* open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
> open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Joris Pekel
> *Sent:* woensdag 12 september 2012 17:22
> *To:* List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
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> *Subject:* Re: [open-bibliography] Europeana opens up data on 20 million
> cultural items****
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> Hi Tom,****
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> I understand your concerns and we have been debating these as well with
> Europeana. It will probably not answer all your questions, but here is some
> additional info:****
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> - All of Europeana's metadata will be available as bulk download under the
> CC0-waiver. This will be officially released in October on the datasets
> page.  At the OKFest some of these will already be available to hack on.**
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> - The API has a key on it yes. The API is being renewed however. When the
> new API is released (which is also available next week at OKFest) there
> will be far less restrictions and anybody can make use of a the API, in
> that sense I do not see a problem in having a key. ****
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> It is now up to the dev community to experiment with the possibilities of
> this CC0 release.  I personally think this is a great achievement for open
> cultural data and will push more institutions towards opening up their data!
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> Best,****
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> Joris****
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> 2012/9/12 Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com>****
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> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> > FYI I just posted a brief piece on the Guardian Datablog about the
> > significance of today's big release of CC0 data from Europeana:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/jwyg/status/245847476899295233
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/sep/12/europeana-cultural-heritage-library-europe
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> That's great news, but is it really CC0 if it's behind an API with
> Terms of Service use restrictions?  Is there a bulk download available
> somewhere?
> How does this data relate to the individual downloads made available
> last year at http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/datasets ?  It doesn't
> look like those have been updated since then, but are they now covered
> by the CC0 license as well?
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> For those who want to short circuit the multiple levels of
> clickthrough required, here are some links:
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> API registration form: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/registration
> Terms of Use: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/api-terms-of-use.html
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