DAMS API — UC Davis Library Digital Collections
The Digital Asset Management System API behind digital.ucdavis.edu, built on 'fin', the UC Davis Library's own open-source repository framework (github.com/ucd-library/fin). OpenAPI 3.0.0, MIT licensed, contact UC Davis Library Online Strategy, four documented paths over collections and items. Verified live on 2026-08-19, but honestly: it is only partly usable anonymously — /api/collection returns HTTP 200 carrying an Elasticsearch parse error and a Node.js stack trace, and item lookups return HTTP 200 with a body of null on a miss. Recorded with those defects rather than presented as clean.
DAMS API — UC Davis Library Digital Collections is one of 18 APIs that University of California, Davis publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Digital Collections, Library, Repository, and Open-Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, and API documentation.
This API exposes 6 operations across 4 paths, organized into 3 resource areas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://digital.ucdavis.edu.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 6
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 4 GET, 2 POST. They span 3 resource areas: collection, item, page search. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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