API

OAI-PMH

All the media published on Open Images and the accompanying descriptions (metadata) are accessible through an API. The API from Open Images uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). In this way third parties can retrieve the stored metadata and media files in a structured way.

At the moment we're still working on the implementation of the API. As soon as this is available the functionality of the API will be documented on this page.

Atom feeds

The media items published on Open Images are also offered through a range of Atom feeds. These Atom feeds can be used to show the content of Open Images within external applications (Miro for example) or websites by using a number of search criteria (recent additions to the platform, recent additions of a specific user, material related to a certain media item, material related to a certain query, etc.).