# Caltech Library Feeds

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/caltech/library-feeds/  
**Provider:** California Institute of Technology — https://apis.io/providers/caltech/  
**Base URL:** https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/  
**Documentation:** https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/

Caltech Library Feeds is one of 11 APIs that [California Institute of Technology](https://apis.io/providers/caltech/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Research Data, Metadata, Bibliometrics, ORCID, and Open Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and 1 JSON Schema.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/caltech/refs/heads/main/json-schema/caltech-library-feeds-person-schema.json
- **Documentation** — https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/caltechlibrary/irdmtools

## Other California Institute of Technology APIs (10)

- [CaltechDATA REST API](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/caltechdata-rest/)
- [CaltechDATA OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/caltechdata-oai/)
- [CaltechAUTHORS REST API and OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/caltechauthors/)
- [SCEDC FDSN Web Services](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/scedc-fdsn/)
- [IRSA Virtual Observatory APIs (Caltech/IPAC)](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/irsa-vo/)
- [NED Table Access Protocol (Caltech/IPAC)](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/ned-tap/)
- [NASA Exoplanet Archive TAP (Caltech/IPAC)](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/exoplanet-archive-tap/)
- [Caltech Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/identity-federation/)
- [Caltech Library Guides (Springshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/libguides-springshare/)
- [EBSCO Link Resolver (Caltech instance)](https://apis.io/apis/caltech/ebsco-resolver/)

## Tags

Research Data, Metadata, Bibliometrics, ORCID, Open Data, JSON

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