Rijksmuseum

OAI-PMH Harvesting API

Standards-based bulk harvesting endpoint implementing the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0). Supports ListRecords, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, and ListIdentifiers verbs across the Dublin Core (dc), Europeana Data Model (edm_dc), and LIDO metadata formats. Use this — not the Collection Search API — to mirror more than 600,000 object records beyond the 10,000-object search ceiling.

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https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/

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SimpleOAIHarvester Reference Script

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: OAI-PMH Harvesting API
description: Standards-based bulk harvesting endpoint implementing the Open Archives Initiative Protocol
  for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0). Supports ListRecords, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets,
  and ListIdentifiers verbs across the Dublin Core (dc), Europeana Data Model (edm_dc), and LIDO metadata
  formats. Use this — not the Collection Search API — to mirror more than 600,000 object records beyond
  the 10,000-object search ceiling.
humanURL: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/
baseURL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api/oai
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Harvesting
- Bulk Data
- Dublin Core
- Europeana
- LIDO
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/
- type: CodeExamples
  url: https://github.com/Q42/SimpleOAIHarvester
  title: SimpleOAIHarvester Reference Script