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Here are some technical essentials to start using the API The base URL for the API is cloud.europeana.eu/api To use the API one needs a user. Obtain one from the Europeana Cloud team. The part of the Tutorial below gives examples and demonstrates the API calls using the popular command line utility cURL for submitting HTTP requests. One can use other tools to submit HTTP requests if desired. In the future we'll also provide convenient client-side libraries in popular languages, such as Java. In the examples below user credentials are provided using the --user parameter
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Data Providers
Each piece of data uploaded to Europeana Cloud has to be owned by a data provider. You can manage the data providers - create or update them - using the API. Let's start with creating one. This is done using the /data-providers method.
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