Linked Data Event Streams API

Introduction

The Linked Data Event Streams API exposes a Linked Data Event Stream, which is a collection of immutable objects each described in RDF. LDES relies on the TREE specification for its collection and pagination features.

Implementation

Rijksmuseum offers an LDES API to share metadata about its collection objects and bibliographic resources. Each LDES page is formatted as JSON-LD and contains complete metadata of one or more resources and/or information to navigate the available metadata. For example, one can find metadata about a Human-Made Object or a Creative Work using the LDES API.

Datasets

The implementation also includes support for datasets, which scopes the metadata to an opiniated selection of resources. Each dataset is assigned a unique dataset number. Rijksmuseum registers certain datasets (e.g. as DCAT entries in the NDE Dataset Register) or communicates relevant dataset numbers to interested parties directly. However, discovery of datasets is currently not available.

Access

There are two endpoints available, a UAT and a production endpoint.

Intented Use	Resource Scope	Root Location
Acceptance Test	All	https://acc.data.rijksmuseum.nl/ldes/collection.json
Acceptance Test	Dataset	https​://acc.data.rijksmuseum.nl/ldes/dataset/dataset number/collection.json
Production	All	https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/ldes/collection.json
Production	Dataset	https​://data.rijksmuseum.nl/ldes/dataset/dataset number/collection.json

Further reading

If you want to know more about LDES or using and publishing an LDES API, please follow the links in this section, see the tutorials section or refer to this e-learning module from EU Academy.