California Institute of Technology

Caltech Library Feeds

A metadata service built and operated by Caltech Library (v1.6), harvesting its institutional repositories, public directory and archival systems into static JSON datasets published for data-science use. Built on caltechlibrary's own open-source irdmtools and dataset toolchain. Verified live 2026-08-19 — the people dataset returned 3,885 person records each carrying an ORCID field, and the groups dataset returned 4.9 MB of JSON.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/caltech/refs/heads/main/json-schema/caltech-library-feeds-person-schema.json

Other Resources

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GitHub
https://github.com/caltechlibrary/irdmtools

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: caltech:library-feeds
name: Caltech Library Feeds
x-operator: institution
description: A metadata service built and operated by Caltech Library (v1.6), harvesting its institutional
  repositories, public directory and archival systems into static JSON datasets published for data-science
  use. Built on caltechlibrary's own open-source irdmtools and dataset toolchain. Verified live 2026-08-19
  — the people dataset returned 3,885 person records each carrying an ORCID field, and the groups dataset
  returned 4.9 MB of JSON.
humanURL: https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/
baseURL: https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/
tags:
- Research Data
- Metadata
- Bibliometrics
- ORCID
- Open Data
- JSON
properties:
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/caltech-library-feeds-person-schema.json
  method: derived
- type: Documentation
  url: https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/caltechlibrary/irdmtools