DigitalNZ Developer Update

[Chris McDowall]

Hello developers,

It’s been a long time! The DigitalNZ team have been really busy during 2015 and we wanted to share some developments and let you know about our developer survey. (Apologies for cross-posting.)

DEVELOPER SURVEY

During the next 24 hours we will send you a survey about the DigitalNZ API. It’s a chance for you to give us feedback about what we do. Your response is important because this research will help inform what level of service and investment is justified in the future

OPEN SOURCING DIGITALNZ -- SUPPLEJACK

We have open sourced the DigitalNZ metadata harvesting system and search platform and released it under the name Supplejack. This means that you can host your own harvesters and start collecting data from diverse sources. The project code and documentation can be found on our Github account. Please get in touch if you would like to learn more.

Supplejack: http://digitalnz.github.io/supplejack/

COMMERCIAL USE METADATA

Nearly two years ago, in association with five cultural heritage organisations, we launched a pilot programme for supplying metadata licensed for commercial use through the DigitalNZ API. Since then the number of contributing organisations has slowly grown and there are currently  nearly 400,000 metadata records available for inclusion in services that generate revenue.  We would love to be able to point to more examples of this data being used in a commercial context. That way we can encourage more of our partners to agree to release their metadata in this way.  Get in touch if you’re interested in learning more.

Original blog post: http://www.digitalnz.org/blog/posts/metadata-now-available-for-commercial-use 

Documentation for querying commercial use: http://www.digitalnz.org/developers/api-docs-v3/search-records-api-v3#commercial_use_section

API INTEGRATIONS PAGE

We recently compiled a showcase of applications that use the DigitalNZ API to give people a sense of what we do. If you think we’ve missed your example, please get in touch and we will include it.

http://www.digitalnz.org/about/digitalnz-api-in-use 

Thanks for reading this far and we looking forward to hearing from you in the survey.

Chris