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NEU-Libraries / drs-toolkit-wp-plugin

This repository is for the layer of the CERES: Exhibit Toolkit that consumes data from the DRS API and presents it through a Wordpress front end. The primary plugin provides search, browse, and display of items from the DRS.
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Wikimedia Commons API #208

Open AmandaRust opened 5 years ago

AmandaRust commented 5 years ago

As I'm sitting in a class talking about using DPLA images in CERES, I'm wondering: does Wikimedia Commons have an API through which we could import items?

patrickmj commented 5 years ago

It has one, but I'm not sure how useful it would be. The documentation is pretty sparse, and the examples are all for getting data a known image, not searching. That might be somewhere undocumented, but I'm skeptical.

AmandaRust commented 5 years ago

The use case is: as students are doing research for exhibits, some relevant items are in Commons even when there aren't any in the DPLA. If we had a way to import items from DPLA, Europeana, and Commons, that would cover a great deal of research cases. (Hopefully!)

patrickmj commented 5 years ago

This definitely moves us into v2.x territory, in expanding the range of sources (I see how you snuck Europeana in there! ;) ). It's worth examining, and if we go that route also delimiting what all the target sources are to get a plan on how to parse the data returned from their APIs.

AmandaRust commented 5 years ago

Ha! I didn't knowingly sneak Europeana in there, it's something that has come up before and I assumed we'd sent the request on to you. So rather than sneaking in a request, I'm failing to keep you up to date with previous requests!

patrickmj commented 5 years ago

Entirely possible that I missed the Europeana request. It makes sense to figure out how to do that eventually.

AmandaRust commented 5 years ago

I'm going to call this a low priority, and the Europeana a higher. Europeana was a specific request from the EBBDA folks.