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Vanderbilt Libraries SPARQL Endpoint

Public, unauthenticated SPARQL 1.1 Protocol endpoint on Vanderbilt's own domain, operated by the Heard Libraries' Linked Data, Wikidata and Semantic Web working groups. Holds 14,366,116 triples across named graphs covering Bioimages, the Apulian vase collection, Syriaca.org, SPEAR, Architectura Sinica, TDWG vocabularies and Getty AAT extracts. Query-via-GET and query-via-POST bindings both verified returning application/sparql-results+json.

Vanderbilt Libraries SPARQL Endpoint is one of 10 APIs that Vanderbilt University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Linked Data, SPARQL, RDF, Semantic Web, and Digital Scholarship. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 operations across 1 path, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://sparql.vanderbilt.edu.

2 operations 1 paths 2 schemas 1 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.1
Base URL
https://sparql.vanderbilt.edu
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

SPARQL 2

SPARQL 1.1 query operations.

GET
/sparql
Execute a SPARQL query via URL-encoded GET
querySparqlViaGet 3 params → 200400
POST
/sparql
Execute a SPARQL query via direct POST
querySparqlViaPost body → 200

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are RdfTerm (4 properties), SparqlResults (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SparqlResults
object
SPARQL 1.1 Query Results JSON Format.
2 properties
RdfTerm
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

vanderbilt-sparql-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Ex Libris Primo / Alma Library Discovery (01VAN_INST)
Crossref Membership — Vanderbilt University Library
ROR Registration — Vanderbilt University
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