The Europeana OAI-PMH service offers a way to collect large amounts of Europeana data from our repository through a protocol named OAI-PMH which stands for Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The OAI-PMH protocol (presently in v2.0) allows you to harvest the entirety, or a selection, of all Europeana metadata so that it can be integrated into other services or applications.
Before start using this API, we recommend reading the introduction page for more information on how data is structured into Records and Datasets, Registering for an API key, and reading the Terms of Use. If you want to get started with this API, go directly to the Getting Started section or try it out directly on the Console.
You can learn more about the harvesting protocol on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) website and also by reading the OAI for beginners tutorial from the Open Archives Forum.