Columbia University

Digital Library Collections and the 10.7916 DOI namespace

Columbia University Libraries' digital collections platform and the resolution target for Columbia's own DOI namespace. Columbia is a registered DataCite repository client (CUL.COLUMBIA, active since 2018) minting under prefix 10.7916, with 1,111,628 DOIs registered at probe time, resolving to dlc.library.columbia.edu. It is Columbia's own persistent-identifier infrastructure — only the registry is DataCite's. Columbia University Libraries separately deposits into Crossref as member 6984. The platform serves HTML; no IIIF manifest endpoint or JSON API was reachable, and iiif.library.columbia.edu does not resolve.

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/columbia/refs/heads/main/examples/index.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: columbia:dlc
name: Digital Library Collections and the 10.7916 DOI namespace
description: Columbia University Libraries' digital collections platform and the resolution target for
  Columbia's own DOI namespace. Columbia is a registered DataCite repository client (CUL.COLUMBIA, active
  since 2018) minting under prefix 10.7916, with 1,111,628 DOIs registered at probe time, resolving to
  dlc.library.columbia.edu. It is Columbia's own persistent-identifier infrastructure — only the registry
  is DataCite's. Columbia University Libraries separately deposits into Crossref as member 6984. The platform
  serves HTML; no IIIF manifest endpoint or JSON API was reachable, and iiif.library.columbia.edu does
  not resolve.
humanURL: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/
tags:
- Digital Collections
- DOI
- DataCite
- Crossref
- Persistent Identifiers
- Research Data
properties:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/columbia-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/index.yml
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: DataCite client CUL.COLUMBIA is registered to Columbia University Libraries against
  library.columbia.edu; DOIs under prefix 10.7916 resolve to dlc.library.columbia.edu, a Columbia host.
  Crossref member 6984 is Columbia University Libraries.
x-access: public
x-status: 200 text/html, probed 2026-08-19