Heritage Leiden and Surroundings API (image bank)

The image bank of Heritage Leiden and Surroundings contains a wide range of images: from original etchings from Rembrandt to born digital material of today. Partners, application developers and other interested parties can query the data in the image bank via an open-search API (Application Programming Interface). For example, to use metadata and images for apps and web applications. The set currently consists of a small 80,000 records, but is continuously expanded and updated. Through the API, these changes and additions are readily available. You can find the description document of the API at http://www.archiefleiden.nl/api/opensearch/description-document Below is an overview of the fields to be asked and the corresponding Dublin Core mapping: opensearch.mapping.Description=dc_description opensearch.mapping.Copyright=dc_rights opensearch.mapping.Placename=dc_coverage opensearch.mapping.Technical=dc_type opensearch.mapping.Date_making=dc_created opensearch.mapping.Maker=dc_creator opensearch.mapping.Formaat=dc_format opensearch.mapping.Trefword=dc_subject opensearch.mapping.Date_period block=dc_date opensearch.mapping.collectionname=dc_isPartOf opensearch.mapping.Type_document=dc_type Example query specific field: Q=Plaatsnaam:leiden Questions about this dataset? Send an email to [email protected]