# Ghent University Library Catalog Interfaces

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ghent/library-catalog/  
**Provider:** Ghent University — https://apis.io/providers/ghent/  
**Documentation:** https://lib.ugent.be/catalog

Ghent University Library Catalog Interfaces is one of 5 APIs that [Ghent University](https://apis.io/providers/ghent/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, Catalog, OAI-PMH, SRU, and IIIF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Ghent University Library catalog (lib.ugent.be) exposes machine interfaces for its collections, including OAI-PMH metadata harvesting, SRU search with CQL, IIIF (Presentation API v2) for digitized images, and OpenSearch for search-result feeds. Per-item pages include a developer section listing available formats; metadata is published under the Open Database License.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://lib.ugent.be/catalog

## Other Ghent University APIs (4)

- [Ghent University Academic Bibliography API](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/biblio/)
- [Ghent University Academic Bibliography OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/biblio-oai/)
- [Ghent University Academic Bibliography SRU](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/biblio-sru/)
- [Hydra Resto API (Zeus WPI)](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/hydra-resto/)

## Tags

Library, Catalog, OAI-PMH, SRU, IIIF, OpenSearch, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/library-catalog/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/ghent/.