USE POLICY

Rate Limiting

Overview

The API implements rate limiting to ensure fair usage and system stability. Rate limits are applied per client and are based on the client's IP address or API key.

Limits

Limit Type	Request Limit	Time Window	Applies To
Standard	100 requests	per minute	All endpoints

Response Headers

When making requests, the following headers are included in the response to help track your rate limit status:

Header	Description	Example
`X-RateLimit-Limit`	Maximum number of requests allowed per time window	`100`
`X-RateLimit-Remaining`	Number of requests remaining in the current time window	`93`
`X-RateLimit-Reset`	Time when the rate limit will reset (Unix timestamp)	`1703162400`

Rate Limit Exceeded Response

When you exceed the rate limit, the API will respond with:

{
    "status": 429,
    "error": "Too Many Requests",
    "message": "Rate limit exceeded. Please try again in X seconds"
}

Digital Reproductions - Re-use

Although we encourage re-use and applications using our collections' data, we also want to ensure that the rights of the designers, artists and researchers to whome any intellectual property might belong are safeguarded. In general, when making use of our digital reproductions we ask as a minimum to:

mention both designer (maker) and license.
preferably also the title of the work, the year of the work and the mentioning of the museum "collection Design Museum Gent"

Please respect the limitations and usage policy as defined by the given license:

license	description
Public Domain	this object belongs to the Public Domain and is free of usage. Nonetheless, we encourage the fair practice as mentioned above (attributing both the maker and the museum).
CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0	you are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes are made. The material can not be used for commercial purposes. If you transform the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
In Copyright	the work is still under copyright. Reuse is not permitted unless agreed with the copyright holder.