Europeana compared with Google Arts and Culture and Wikimedia Commons| Pesquisa de imagens e arquivos da Europeana | Google Arts and Culture | Wikimedia Commons |
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| Content scope and contributors: Aggregates digitized items from more than 4,000 European cultural heritage institutions, including rare originals, maps, manuscripts and technical drawings. Europeana does not own the copyright; it relies on the contributing institutions. | Content scope and contributors: A platform that supports over 2,000 institutions in more than 80 countries and cites about 200,000 high-resolution artwork images and 7 million archival artifacts. Publishing is by invitation only. | Content scope and contributors: Hosts files that are freely licensed, placed in the public domain by the author, or out of copyright. It is not limited to Europe or to cultural heritage. |
| Rights and reuse: Metadata is published under CC0 1.0. Each digital object follows the rights statement shown with it, so licences are very diverse, and Europeana cannot guarantee that the rights information is always correct. | Rights and reuse: The support page does not address licensing or reuse terms. | Rights and reuse: Reuse requires crediting the author, naming the licence, linking to the licence text and source, and noting changes. Public domain works need no legal attribution. |
| API and data access: Search, Record, SPARQL, Linked Open Data, Harvesting and Downloads, Entity, Annotations and IIIF APIs are documented. Personal API keys are for non-production use, while project keys may be used in production. Request volumes may be capped and no technical support is guaranteed. | API and data access: The support page does not mention an API or downloads. | API and data access: The MediaWiki Action API returns licence and attribution data through the imageinfo extmetadata field. Structured Data on Commons can export RDF, JSON-LD and Turtle, though much metadata is not yet in it. |
| Metadata model: Records use the Europeana Data Model for interoperability across media types, and the edm:rights field carries the rights statement for thumbnails and linked content. | | |
