Europeana

Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. It develops expertise, tools, and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation, making it easier for people to use cultural heritage for education, research, creation, and recreation. The Europeana platform aggregates metadata for over 50 million digitized items from more than 3,500 cultural institutions across Europe and exposes them through public APIs.

Europeana publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Record API and Search API. Tagged areas include Archives, Cultural Heritage, Europe, Library, and Museums.

Europeana’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, product news, changelog, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 14 more developer resources.

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41.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware open core · EUPL-1.2 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Archives Cultural Heritage Europe Library Museums Search OAI-PMH

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 41.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.5 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OAI-PMH

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Europeana Record API

Retrieve full metadata for a single record

Europeana Search API

Discover records via keyword, faceted, and filtered search

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Europeana Search and Record API

OPEN COLLECTION

Europeana and Record Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Europeana Search and Record API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Europeana Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Europeana Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Europeana Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Europeana Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Europeana Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Europeana Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Libraries

Libraries

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Contact

ChangeLog

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

License

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

News

News

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Events

Events

Source (apis.yml)

aid: europeana
name: Europeana
description: Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. It develops expertise, tools,
  and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation, making it easier for people to
  use cultural heritage for education, research, creation, and recreation. The Europeana platform aggregates metadata for
  over 50 million digitized items from more than 3,500 cultural institutions across Europe and exposes them through public
  APIs.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/europeana/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: EUPL-1.2
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/europeana.png
type: Index
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2023-11-23'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Archives
- Cultural Heritage
- Europe
- Library
- Museums
- Search
- OAI-PMH
tags_raw:
- Archives
- Cultural Heritage
- Europe
- Libraries
- Museums
- Search
- OAI-PMH
apis:
- aid: europeana:europeana-record-api
  name: Europeana Record API
  description: Retrieve full metadata for a single record
  humanURL: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/intro
  baseURL: https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2
  tags:
  - Record
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/europeana-record-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/apis
  - type: Console
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/api-rest-console
  - type: Signup
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/europeana/api2
- aid: europeana:europeana-search-api
  name: Europeana Search API
  description: Discover records via keyword, faceted, and filtered search
  humanURL: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/intro
  baseURL: https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/europeana-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/apis
  - type: Console
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/api-rest-console
  - type: Signup
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/europeana/api2
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/europeana-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/europeana-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/europeana-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://europeana.eu
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/europeana/api2/issues
- type: License
  name: EUPL-1.2
  url: https://github.com/europeana/api2/blob/develop/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/europeana-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/europeana-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/europeana-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/europeana
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/
  type: Portal
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/news
  type: News
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/events
  type: Events
- url: https://www.europeana.eu/en/rights
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://www.europeana.eu/en/rights/privacy-policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/about-us/office-employees
  type: Contact
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/api-libraries-and-plugins
  type: Libraries
- url: https://github.com/europeana/api2/releases/
  type: ChangeLog
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/record#get-started
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api
  type: Signup
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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