Ghent University

Ghent University Un API

unAPI 1 alternate-format discovery.

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Operations 1

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
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Documentation
https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/blob/master/api-resto-02.md
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APIReference
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/master/api-resto-02.md
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APIReference
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/people-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/authentication/ghent-authentication.yml
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APIReference
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/projects-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
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APIReference
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/oai-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/openapi/ghent-unapi-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/json-schema/ghent-biblio-publication-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/json-schema/ghent-hydra-resto-schema.json

Other Resources

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Vocabulary
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/ghent-biblio-cql-vocabulary.yml
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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/examples/ghent-examples.yml
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License
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/conformance/ghent-education-standards-conformance.yml
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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/examples/ghent-biblio-oai-identify.xml
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SourceCode
https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra
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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/examples/ghent-hydra-resto-meta.json
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Lifecycle
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/ghent-lifecycle.yml
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SourceCode
https://github.com/ugent-library/people-service
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Errors
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/errors/ghent-errors.yml
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SourceCode
https://github.com/ugent-library/projects-service
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SourceCode
https://github.com/ugent-library/oai-service

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OpenAPI Specification

ghent-unapi-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Ghent University Academic Bibliography Un API
  version: '2026-09-01'
  summary: Search, export and harvest 200 years of Ghent University research output.
  description: The Academic Bibliography (Biblio) is Ghent University's institutional publication and dataset registry, operated by Ghent University Library on the university's own host. It exposes a JSON/JSONP REST search API, per-record and bulk exports in fourteen bibliographic formats, an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint, an SRU 1.1 search service driven by CQL, a unAPI discovery service, RSS feeds and daily full-dataset dumps. Metadata is published under the Open Database License (ODbL).
  termsOfService: https://www.ugent.be/en/disclaimer
  contact:
    name: Ghent University Library
    email: libservice@ugent.be
    url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  license:
    name: Open Database License (ODbL)
    url: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
servers:
- url: https://biblio.ugent.be
  description: Production
tags:
- name: unAPI
  description: unAPI 1 alternate-format discovery.
paths:
  /unapi:
    get:
      tags:
      - unAPI
      operationId: unapi
      summary: unAPI 1 alternate-format discovery
      description: With no parameters, returns the list of formats available for all records. With id, the formats for one record. With id and format, the record itself.
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        example: '2003357'
      - name: format
        in: query
        schema:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordFormat'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: unAPI formats document or a record
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  schemas:
    RecordFormat:
      type: string
      description: Export formats named in the Academic Bibliography documentation.
      enum:
      - json
      - yaml
      - bibtex
      - ris
      - csv
      - xlsx
      - rdf
      - mods
      - mods_vabb
      - mods_36
      - mods_fwo
      - dc
      - mets
      - didl
      - txt
      - doc