ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

ETH Library on opendata.swiss (CKAN)

ETH Library publishes 14 datasets as the "ETH Library" organization on opendata.swiss, the Swiss federal open-government-data portal. The data is ETH's; the CKAN platform, the Action API and the contract are the Swiss Confederation's. Recorded as a tenant relationship — the CKAN API specification is NOT stored under this institution, and the catalog credit for that contract belongs to opendata.swiss.

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APIReference
https://ckan.opendata.swiss/api/3/action/organization_show?id=eth-bibliothek

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OpenData
https://opendata.swiss/en/organization/eth-bibliothek

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: eth-zurich:eth-zurich-opendata-swiss
x-operator: tenant
name: ETH Library on opendata.swiss (CKAN)
description: ETH Library publishes 14 datasets as the "ETH Library" organization on opendata.swiss, the
  Swiss federal open-government-data portal. The data is ETH's; the CKAN platform, the Action API and
  the contract are the Swiss Confederation's. Recorded as a tenant relationship — the CKAN API specification
  is NOT stored under this institution, and the catalog credit for that contract belongs to opendata.swiss.
humanURL: https://opendata.swiss/en/organization/eth-bibliothek
baseURL: https://ckan.opendata.swiss/api/3
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
properties:
- type: OpenData
  url: https://opendata.swiss/en/organization/eth-bibliothek
- type: APIReference
  url: https://ckan.opendata.swiss/api/3/action/organization_show?id=eth-bibliothek