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LUX Collections Discovery — Facets API

Faceted aggregation over LUX search results, returning an OrderedCollectionPage of facet values and occurrence counts. Institution-operated on lux.collections.yale.edu.

LUX Collections Discovery — Facets API is one of 13 APIs that Yale University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Facets and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://lux.collections.yale.edu.

1 operations 1 paths 5 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://lux.collections.yale.edu
License
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 1

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

Facets 1

Faceted aggregation over search results

GET
/api/facets/{scope}
Retrieve facet values
facets 5 params → 200

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are OrderedCollection (8 properties), OrderedCollectionPage (7 properties), EntityRef (2 properties), CollectionPageRef (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

LanguageMap
object
A Linked Art language map: keys are language tags and values are arrays of strings.
OrderedCollectionPage
object
A single page of a Linked Art OrderedCollection.
7 properties 3 required
CollectionPageRef
object
2 properties 1 required
OrderedCollection
object
A Linked Art OrderedCollection summarizing a result set.
8 properties 3 required
EntityRef
object
A reference to a LUX entity returned within search results.
2 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

yale-facets-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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LUX Collections Discovery — Configuration API
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Yale Courses Web Service v3
Yale Enterprise (SOA) Services
EliScholar OAI-PMH (bepress Digital Commons tenancy)
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Yale University Federation API
Yale University IIIF API
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