UC San Diego Library Digital Collections JSON API
Public, read-only JSON search-and-retrieval over the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections, the Library's locally developed Fedora-backed Digital Asset Management System fronted by Blacklight/Solr. Request `.json` on a search or object path and the Solr response is returned directly — /dc/search.json, /dc/object/{id}.json, /dc/collection/{id}.json — with a server-side filter that keeps restricted and embargoed material out of anonymous results. UC San Diego runs this itself on its own origin inside campus address space; it is registered on re3data as an institutional data provider (r3d100011577). UC San Diego publishes no OpenAPI for it, so the contract in this repo was written from live probes and is marked accordingly.
UC San Diego Library Digital Collections JSON API is one of 12 APIs that University of California, San Diego publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Library, Digital Collections, Research Data, Repository, and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 2026-08-19.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://library.ucsd.edu.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 3
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. They span 2 resource areas: search, objects. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Faceted search across publicly discoverable digital objects and collections.
Retrieval of a single digital object or assembled collection record.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DigitalObject (13 properties), SolrSearchResponse (4 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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