Ghent University Library People Service
An OpenAPI 3.1 contract authored and open-sourced by Ghent University Library for the people and organizations directory behind the Academic Bibliography. Sixteen operations covering person and organization records, identifier lookup, suggest, role and settings management, and an explicit set-person-orcid operation that makes ORCID a first-class field. servers[] is relative (/api/v1) because the service runs inside the university's own estate - no public base URL is published and none has been invented here. Authentication is an X-Api-Key header.
Ghent University Library People Service is one of 12 APIs that Ghent University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Identity, People, Organizations, ORCID, and Research. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 16 operations across 16 paths, and defines 26 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 0.0.1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, /api/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Ghent University Library People Service declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as X-Api-Key (apiKey).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 16
Across 16 paths, the API surfaces 16 operations — 16 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 26
The contract defines 26 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Person (19 properties), Organization (9 properties), OrganizationParent (5 properties), SetPersonTokenRequest (3 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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