Transcriptions

Retrieve a single transcription

Returns the full transcript of a single page along with its source citation. Mirrors /transcripties/toon/<id>. AI-generated summaries are deliberately not returned by this endpoint.

get/transcriptions/show.json

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.openarchieven.nl/1.1
  • URL: https://api.openarchieven.nl/1.1/transcriptions/show.json
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

idstring required

Page identifier in the form <ISIL>_<archive_number>_<page>, e.g. NL-SdmGA_1504889_11.

lang'nl' | 'en' | 'de' | 'fr'

Language code used to localise the archive name in the response.

callbackstring

JavaScript function name for JSONP callback.

Response

Successful transcription response

idstring required

Page identifier (matches the request id).

uristring uri required
pagestring

Page number with leading zeros stripped.

source_urlstring uri

Direct link to the scan or transcription on the source archive's website.

thumb_urlstring uri

Thumbnail image URL, when available.

projectstring

Source project that produced the transcription, e.g. transkribus, globalise, mibudera.

transcriptstring required

Plain-text transcript of the page.

Example response

{
  "id": "NL-SdmGA_1504889_11",
  "source_archive": {
    "isil": "NL-SdmGA",
    "archive_code": "sch",
    "name": "Gemeentearchief Schiedam"
  },
  "archive_number": {
    "nr": "243",
    "title": "Archief van notaris Maarten Kouwenhoven, 1646-1698"
  },
  "inventory_number": {
    "nr": "761",
    "title": "1662 januari 3-1664 december 30"
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.