Demos and exercises
Demos
Annif API examples – Juho Inkinen, National Library of Finland
Digging into BiografiaSampo through Linked Data – Petri Leskinen, SeCo at Aalto University / HELDIG
Exercises
Wikidata Query Examples
Finna API
Finnish National Gallery API
Wikidata
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.
What can you do with Wikidata?
Edit
Query
Visuallize
Reconcile data
Read multilingual data
Crowdsourcing tools
What's an API?
What can you do with APIs?

Use for
Applications
Visualizations
Information retrieval
Research
Get
Information
Functions
Why APIs?
- No need to invent the wheel again
- No need to copy entire service, if you need only part of it
- It is easy for anyone to use
- You are not bound to use certain type of code or environment, as long as you are able to call the API properly
Why are APIs made available
- Financial profit
- Gives the impression that the provider is open and ready for cooperation
- More services related to the providers primary service
- Spreading good