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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository Cugir API
version: '1.0'
description: Machine-readable search and item metadata for CUGIR, the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository operated by Cornell University Library. CUGIR runs GeoBlacklight, which answers every catalog route in JSON:API form when `.json` is appended. There is no Cornell-published API reference; this document was derived from live probes of the running service. Item records carry Aardvark/GeoBlacklight metadata fields (dct_creator_sm, dct_spatial_sm, and so on).
termsOfService: https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/
contact:
name: Cornell University Library
url: https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: cugir.library.cornell.edu is under Cornell's own registrable domain and CNAMEs to cugir-app-1492036709.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com — an AWS load balancer in Cornell University Library's own account, not a vendor platform. CUGIR is Cornell University Library's own GeoBlacklight deployment.
x-provenance:
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: derived
source: 'Live probes 2026-08-19: https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog.json?q=ithaca 200 application/json; .../catalog.json?q=soil&page=2&per_page=5 200; https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-map-5063364.json 200 application/json (JSON:API `data.attributes`); https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/oai?verb=Identify 404 — CUGIR exposes no OAI-PMH endpoint at that path.'
servers:
- url: https://cugir.library.cornell.edu
description: CUGIR (production)
tags:
- name: cugir
description: Search and retrieve Cornell geospatial datasets and historical maps.
paths:
/catalog.json:
get:
tags:
- cugir
summary: Search CUGIR
description: GeoBlacklight search returning a JSON:API envelope with links, meta and data[].
operationId: searchCugir
parameters:
- name: q
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
- name: page
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
- name: per_page
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
responses:
'200':
description: JSON:API search response.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
links:
type: object
description: self / next / last page links
meta:
type: object
description: result counts and page metadata
data:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
example: cugir-map-5063364
attributes:
type: object
description: Aardvark/GeoBlacklight metadata fields
included:
type: array
items: {}
/catalog/{id}.json:
get:
tags:
- cugir
summary: Get one CUGIR record
description: Returns a single dataset or map record as JSON:API. Verified live 2026-08-19.
operationId: getCugirRecord
parameters:
- name: id
in: path
required: true
description: CUGIR record identifier, e.g. cugir-map-5063364.
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: One record.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
links:
type: object
data:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
attributes:
type: object
'404':
description: No such record.