Ghent University

Ghent University Library Projects Service

An OpenAPI 3.1 contract authored and open-sourced by Ghent University Library for the directory of research projects at Ghent University - add, get, delete and suggest operations over project records. Deployed inside the university estate behind an API key; servers[] is relative and no public host is published.

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Operations 4

POST /add-project Add a single project #

POST /get-project Get a project #

POST /delete-project Delete a project #

POST /suggest-projects Search in projects #

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OpenAPI Specification

# Provenance
#   generated: '2026-09-01'
#   method: searched
#   source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/projects-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
#   x-operator: institution
#   note: Authored and published by Ghent University Library (github.com/ugent-library,
#     "Library applications built for libraries at Ghent University"). servers[] is
#     relative (/api/v1) because the service is deployed inside the university's own
#     estate; no public base URL is published, and none has been invented here.
#     Verbatim upstream copy is in openapi/_original/ghent-projects-service-openapi.yaml.
openapi: 3.1.0

servers:
  - url: /api/v1

info:
  title: Projects Service
  version: 0.0.1

paths:
  /add-project:
    post:
      summary: Add a single project
      description: Add a single project
      operationId: addProject
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/AddProjectRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        default:
          $ref: "#/components/responses/Error"

  /get-project:
    post:
      summary: Get a project
      description: Get a project
      operationId: getProject
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/GetProjectRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/GetProjectResponse"
        '404':
          description: Project not found
          $ref: "#/components/responses/Error"
        default:
          $ref: "#/components/responses/Error"

  /delete-project:
    post:
      summary: Delete a project
      description: Delete a project
      operationId: deleteProject
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteProjectRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'

  /suggest-projects:
    post:
      summary: "Search in projects"
      description: "Search in projects"
      operationId: "suggestProjects"
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: "#/components/schemas/SuggestProjectsRequest"
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/SuggestProjectsResponse"
        default:
          $ref: "#/components/responses/Error"  


security:
  - apiKey: []


components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Api-Key

  responses:
    Error:
      description: Error
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: "#/components/schemas/Error"

  schemas:
    AddProjectRequest:
      $ref: "#/components/schemas/AddProject"      

    GetProjectRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
      required: [id]

    GetProjectResponse:
      $ref: "#/components/schemas/GetProject"

    DeleteProjectRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
      required: [id]

    SuggestProjectsRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        query:
          type: string
          minLength: 0
      required: [query]

    SuggestProjectsResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        cursor:
          type: string
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: "#/components/schemas/GetProject"

      required: [data]

    Project:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        created:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        modified:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        type:
          type: string
        identifier:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              type:
                type: string
              propertyID:
                type: string
              value:
                type: string
            required: [type, propertyID, value]
        isFundedBy:
          type: object
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
            hasCallNumber:
              type: string
            isAwardedBy:
              type: object
              nullable: true
              properties:
                type:
                  type: string
                name:
                  type: string
              required: [type, name]
          required: [type]
        hasAcronym:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        name:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              language:
                type: string
              value:
                type: string
            required: [language, value]
        description:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              language:
                type: string
              value:
                type: string
            required: [language, value]
        foundingDate:
          type: string
        dissolutionDate:
          type: string

    AddProject:
      allOf:
        - $ref: "#/components/schemas/Project"
        - required: [type, identifier]

    GetProject:
      allOf:
        - $ref: "#/components/schemas/Project"
        - required: [id, type, identifier, created, modified]

    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        message:
          type: string
      required:
        - code
        - message