Bibliographic data APIs

The Rijksmuseum supports the SRU client/server protocol for searching and retrieving bibliographic records from the library database.

SRU

http://library.rijksmuseum.nl:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&maximumRecords=20&query=[QUERY] gives access to bibliographic data via search clients that support the SRU standard.

Parameter	Format	Default	Notes
recordSchema	marcxml / dc / rm	marcxml	append dc for simple Dublin Core or rm for a local customized format
startRecord	1-n	‘1’	skip a specified number of records in the result set

Example request SRU

SRU supports CQL (Contextual Query Language). You can use operators like and, or. Some example search indexes are title, author, subject, isbn, issn, editor, publisher and cql.serverchoice (any). The following URL allows you to view the second 5 records in a search on subject containing the term rembrandt or title containing the term painting.

http://library.rijksmuseum.nl:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=subject=rembrandt or title=painting&maximumRecords=5&startRecord=6

Example response SRU

Responses are encoded in UTF-8 and by default formatted in MARCXML:

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