SRU

Bibliographic data of the Rijksmuseum Library can be accessed through search clients that support the SRU standard.

Rijksmuseum SRU Base URL

http://library.rijksmuseum.nl:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&maximumRecords=20&query=[QUERY]

Parameters

SRU supports setting a number of parameters. Here we highlight a number of them, including defaults.

SRU Standard

This page describes the SRU standard in the context of the Rijksmuseum Data Services. The SRU page provides a thorough overview of the standard.

recordSchema

Range	Default
marcxml / dc / rm	marcxml

The format of the response. Append dc for simple Dublin Core or rm for a local customized format.

startRecord

Range	Default
1-n	1

Skip a specified number of records in the result set.

Example request SRU

SRU supports Contextual Query Language (CQL). You can use operators like and and or. Some example search indexes are title, author, subject, isbn, issn, editor, publisher and cql. 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:

Example response

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