# Europeana

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/europeana/  
**Website:** https://pro.europeana.eu/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 40.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **Europeana Record API** — Retrieve full metadata for a single record
- **Europeana Search API** — Discover records via keyword, faceted, and filtered search

## Agentic access (1)

- **Europeana Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (2)

- **Europeana Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Europeana Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Europeana Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Archives, Cultural Heritage, Europe, Libraries, Museums, Search

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/europeana/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.