[new resource]: Extracting CSV data from the EHRI Search API

[ClaireB82]

Title of the resource

Extracting CSV data from the EHRI Search API

Resource type

External Resource

Authors, editors and contributors

Mike Bryant

Topics (keywords)

Training & Education, Data management

Learning outcomes

• Understand how to use popular command-line tools (available on MacOS, Linux, and Windows) extract data from the EHRI Search API
• Understand how to convert the extracted data to CSV, where it can be imported into Excel or a relational database

Abstract

The EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) Search API provides a way of retrieving information about items in the EHRI portal in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format by making HTTP requests to particular URLs. Instead of using a web browser to make web requests which return HTML pages, we use a command line tool (CuRL) that fetches structured data we can then transform into CSV (comma separated values), a format we can then import into a spreadsheet like Excel or Google Docs.

[VickyGarnett]

Hi Claire, all good to proceed, although unless this resource contains critique and discussion of pedagogical theory, I would remove the keyword 'Training and Education', thanks :) - V

[VickyGarnett]

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