LUX Collections Discovery — Search API
Search and discovery across LUX scopes, returning Linked Art OrderedCollectionPage documents in JSON-LD. LUX is Yale's own platform: the frontend, middle tier, Varnish cache, MarkLogic backend and data pipeline are all published by the project-lux GitHub organization, and the host is under Yale's registrable domain. Verified 200 on 2026-08-19 with q={"text":"gold"} returning 53,387 matching objects.
LUX Collections Discovery — Search 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 Search, Linked Art, and Cultural Heritage. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://dataverse.yale.edu, https://lux.collections.yale.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. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Public search across published dataverses, datasets and files
Schemas 8
The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SearchItem (14 properties), OrderedCollection (8 properties), OrderedCollectionPage (7 properties), EntityRef (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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