Europeana is a multilingual digital collection containing more than 15 million resources that lets you explore Europe's history from ancient times to the modern day. Europeana's API services are web services that allow you to search and display Europeana collections in your website and applications. The folks at Europeana have been actively promoting experimentation with their APIs by organizing 'hackathons'—workshops for cultural informatics developers where new ideas are discussed and implemented.
Some examples of outputs from previous hackathons can be found here. Hack4Europe! is the most recent of these dissemination activities:
Hack4Europe! is a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners Collections Trust, Museu Picasso, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Swedish National Heritage Board. The hackathon roadshow will be held simultaneously in 4 locations (London, Barcelona, Poznan and Stockholm) in the week 6 - 12 June and will provide an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data for social and economic growth in Europe.
Each hackathon will bring together up to 30 developers from the hosting country and the surrounding area. They will have access to the diverse and rich Europeana collections containing over 18 million records, Europeana Search API (incl. a test key and technical documentation) and Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot datasets which currently comprise about 3 million Europeana records available under a CC0 license.
There are four hackathons coming up across Europe, so if you're interested, make sure you sign up quickly. Each event offers a unique opportunity to work with Europe's rich cultural heritage data and connect with fellow developers and cultural heritage professionals:
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