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Posted on Tuesday March 15, 2016

Updated on Monday November 6, 2023

Creative industries Api Sparql-api

Europeana OAI-PMH Harvester

PHP based harvester to download all records via the Europeana OAI-PMH Service

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This PHP script downloads all Europeana records via OAI-PMH protocol. The result are a number of files (named as europeana-oai-pmh-import-dddddddd.json), each contain 1000 records, one record per line in JSON format. Be aware: a full harvest takes more than a week and resulted 250+ GB content.

For more about the service, see the Europeana OAI-PMH documentation.

OAI-PMH harvester code on Github
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Europeana Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
2595 BE Den Haag
Netherlands

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Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. We develop expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation.

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