KB Labs — Royal Danish Library APIs
Open APIs for historical Danish newspapers, digitized text collections, and aerial photography.
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KB Labs is the digital research and developer initiative from Det Kgl. Bibliotek (The Royal Danish Library). It exposes open programmatic access to Denmark's cultural heritage: a documented Swagger/OpenAPI Newspaper API (querying historical OCR text from Mediestream in JSON/JSONL/CSV), historical aerial photographs (Danmark set fra luften), digitized books, and open metadata collections.
Konkrete Brugsscenarier
- 01Search and extract OCR text from historical Danish newspapers via OpenAPI
- 02Retrieve georeferenced historical aerial photographs of Danish properties and landscapes
- 03Perform text mining and natural language processing on public domain Danish literature
- 04Query library metadata, digital collections, and bibliographic records
Tekniske Detaljer & Grænser
Open and free access for non-commercial and research purposes. Newspaper API covers out-of-copyright and public domain publications (generally pre-1920 or specifically licensed). API endpoints operate as experimental research services.
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