Norvegiana API

Norvegiana is a tool for making cultural heritage information more accessible as open data. Norvegiana is an open pool with cultural data from archives, museums and other cultural institutions; in total, about 300 organisations. Norvegiana contains 7.4 million records in total (as of August 2016), of which 1.9 million are images, 16,000 audio clips and 1,400 videos. Norvegiana aggregates data from various databases and information sources, and harmonises this in a common metadata model — ABM Semantic Elements. Data from Norvegiana is accessible via an open search API, and a simple website & www.norvegiana.no API delivers data on individual objects in xml, json or kml format. About 3.1 million objects are placed with coordinates. The API is open and no key is required. The following data sources are available in Norvegiana (overview as of August 2016): — DigitaltMuseum — historical photographs, objects, art (1.8 million objects) — Digitally told — digital stories (4,700 stories) — Cultural history encyclopedia Sogn og Fjordane (1,900 articles) — MUSIT archaeology — Univerist museums’ archaeology data (900,000 objects) — Coastal journey — coastal maritime cultural history (2.045 objects) — Photo SF — County Photo Sogn og Fjordane (66.000 photos) — Photo MR — County Photo Archives Møre og Romsdal (158,000 photos) — stadnamn SF — place names Sogn og Fjordane (185,000 place names) — stadnamn MR — place names Møre og Romsdal (same database as stadnamn Sogn og Fjordane; 130,000 place names) — Kildenett — Historical source and knowledge base for Trøndelag (1,500 articles) — music archives, traditional music Sogn og Fjordane (14,000 introductions) — Archive portal — archive catalogues from state, municipal and private archives (3.4 million documents) Norvegiana and the individual data sets are described in the note Norvegiana & Norvegiana & data model, mapping, content and databases. The license (i.e. rights to reuse) is at the post level, and will thus vary within the individual data set. Norvegiana is a tool for making cultural heritage information more accessible as open data. Norvegiana is an open pool with cultural data from archives, museums and other cultural institutions; in total, about 300 organisations. Norvegiana contains 7.4 million records in total (as of August 2016), of which 1.9 million are images, 16,000 audio clips and 1,400 videos. Norvegiana aggregates data from various databases and information sources, and harmonises this in a common metadata model — ABM Semantic Elements. Data from Norvegiana is accessible via an open search API, and a simple website & www.norvegiana.no API delivers data on individual objects in xml, json or kml format. About 3.1 million objects are placed with coordinates. The API is open and no key is required. The following data sources are available in Norvegiana (overview as of August 2016): — DigitaltMuseum — historical photographs, objects, art (1.8 million objects) — Digitally told — digital stories (4,700 stories) — Cultural history encyclopedia Sogn og Fjordane (1,900 articles) — MUSIT archaeology — Univerist museums’ archaeology data (900,000 objects) — Coastal journey — coastal maritime cultural history (2.045 objects) — Photo SF — County Photo Sogn og Fjordane (66.000 photos) — Photo MR — County Photo Archives Møre og Romsdal (158,000 photos) — stadnamn SF — place names Sogn og Fjordane (185,000 place names) — stadnamn MR — place names Møre og Romsdal (same database as stadnamn Sogn og Fjordane; 130,000 place names) — Kildenett — Historical source and knowledge base for Trøndelag (1,500 articles) — music archives, traditional music Sogn og Fjordane (14,000 introductions) — Archive portal — archive catalogues from state, municipal and private archives (3.4 million documents) Norvegiana and the individual data sets are described in the note Norvegiana & Norvegiana & data model, mapping, content and databases. The license (i.e. rights to reuse) is at the post level, and will thus vary within the individual data set.