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Introduction

The RRN API exposes the data contained within the RRN in a structured way for use by developers. Please feel free to email technical@rrncommunity.org if you have any feedback about the API. We'd love to know how you're using the RRN API, send us an email and let us know!

Search API

A page of items can be retrieved in an XML or JSON representation by appending .xml or .json to the end of the path.

http://www.rrnpilot.org/items.xml or http://www.rrnpilot.org/items.json

Any search that can be done using the faceted search tools can also be represented as XML (or JSON) using the same approach.

http://www.rrnpilot.org/items.xml?filters=type mask, culture Haida

NOTE: Route-globbed search urls are no longer supported. Please update your links accordingly.

/items/type-mask/culture-Haida becomes /items?filters=type mask, culture Haida

Options

page

The page of results that is returned. The default is 1. http://www.rrnpilot.org/items.json?page=2

per_page

The number of results that are returned. The maximum is 100 and the default is 10. http://www.rrnpilot.org/items.json?per_page=25

Item Record API

XML and JSON representations of a single item can be returned in a similar manner.

http://www.rrnpilot.org/items/1.xml or http://www.rrnpilot.org/items/1.json

Application Gallery

The following is a list of projects which make use of the RRN's API. Please email us at feedback@rrncommunity.org if you would like to add your site to the list.

Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History

This project is focused on a little-known collection of objects housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Called the MacFarlane Collection after the Hudson’s Bay trader who assembled the objects, the collection includes nearly 5000 natural history specimens, such as birds’ eggs and animal skeletons, and an additional 300 cultural objects collected from Anderson River Inuvialuit in the 1860s.

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