UBC Library Abacus Dataverse API
The REST API of Abacus, UBC Library's research-data repository, running Dataverse 5.9 on UBC's own infrastructure at abacus.library.ubc.ca. UBC operates the deployment and the data is UBC's and its BC consortium partners'; the contract itself is Dataverse software's, served by the product at /openapi, and every schema, ruleset and vocabulary in this repo derived from it inherits that. Verified live 2026-08-19 at /api/info/version. This ONE surface was previously recorded as twenty-two separate APIs because the refine step splits a contract by tag — the twenty-two OpenAPI documents are kept as properties here, but they describe one API, not twenty-two.
UBC Library Abacus Dataverse API is one of 7 APIs that University of British Columbia publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 5 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Research Data, Research Repository, Dataverse, and Open Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, authentication docs, and 5 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 22 operations across 20 paths, and defines 176 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 5.9.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://abacus.library.ubc.ca.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 22
Across 20 paths, the API surfaces 22 operations — 2 DELETE, 14 GET, 2 POST, 4 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 176
The contract defines 176 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Dataverse (54 properties), EjbDataverseEngine (43 properties), DataFile (43 properties), Dataset (39 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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