University of York Digital Collections IIIF APIs
The University of York serves its digitised material through two IIIF specifications on its own host: IIIF Image API 3.0 at compliance level 2 (the served info.json declares "profile": "level2", "type": "ImageService3" and its own extraFeatures, extraFormats and extraQualities), and IIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests and canvases. Identifiers are ARKs under the University's Name Assigning Authority Number 36941. Keyless and CORS open. The IIIF Collection endpoint is not deployed, so there is no machine-readable entry point that enumerates the collections — a harvester has to start from the search API.
University of York Digital Collections IIIF APIs is one of 8 APIs that University of York publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include IIIF, Digital Collections, Image, Cultural Heritage, and Archives. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://discover.york.ac.uk.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 4
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. They span 2 resource areas: IIIF Image, IIIF Presentation. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
IIIF Image API 3.0, compliance level 2.
IIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests and canvases.
Schemas 5
The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ImageService3 (12 properties), Manifest (8 properties), Canvas (6 properties), S3Error (2 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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