Demos and exercises

Demos

Annif API examples – Juho Inkinen, National Library of Finland

Wikidocumentaries

Digging into BiografiaSampo through Linked Data – Petri Leskinen, SeCo at Aalto University / HELDIG

Exercises

Wikidata Query Examples

Finna API

Finnish National Gallery API

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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?

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Linked Open Data

Web of Pages (www) versus Web of Data (Linked Data)

Simple RDF data model

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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

API use cases

Finna API

Examples of Finna API uses

Finnish National Gallery API

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