Some online collections are making their data available through APIs, such as the Digital Public Library of America and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. APIs make your collections more accessible, and also contribute to the long-term sustainability by making it easier for your Omeka Classic data to communicate and be shared with other systems via web-based protocols.
Permissions to modify any data are only given to existing IGI users of our Omeka Classic site who have been given a key by an administrator. See more information on users at Users.
The same permissions by role apply to the API, so users with the “researcher” role will not be able to do anything through the API that they cannot do through the regular admin interface. Users with admin or super levels can obtain keys that could allow their applications to show, browse, add, edit, and delete your site resources. Be careful when generating API keys.