We currently provide four API calls for accessing the DigitalNZ collection:

• Search records
• Custom search records (beta)
• Get metadata for a specific record
• List the DigitalNZ contributors

All DigitalNZ search tools, including the API, use a powerful query syntax, described here:

• Query syntax

Remember that DigitalNZ does not have a copy of the items in the collection. Instead, we hold metadata about items in other collections, together with a pointer to the content object. DigitalNZ therefore behaves much like a search engine, except that our metadata is highly structured.