GraphQL for Archival Metadata: an Overview of the EHRI GraphQL API

EasyChair Preprint 2717

Abstract

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) portal provides transnational access to archival metadata relating to the Holocaust. A GraphQL API has recently been added to the portal in order to expand access to EHRI data in structured form. The API defines a schema which mediates access to EHRI's graph-based data store, catering to both targeted and bulk metadata retrieval across a range of interrelated data types. This short paper provides an overview of the GraphQL API and illustrates a number of use-cases for the capturing of structured archival metadata.

Keyphrases: Application Programming Interfaces, The Holocaust, archival science, data integration

@booklet{EasyChair:2717,
  author    = {Mike Bryant},
  title     = {GraphQL for Archival Metadata: an Overview of the EHRI GraphQL API},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2717},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}