LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)

The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The host CNAMEs to lse.custom.url.quartexcollections.com, an LSE tenancy on Adam Matthew Digital's Quartex platform, and all assets and service endpoints resolve to *.quartexcollections.com. The About page states IIIF manifests are available per item and that metadata can be downloaded at scale via OAI-PMH, directing large-scale users to library.enquiries@lse.ac.uk. No OAI-PMH base URL is published — /oai and /OAI on this host return the site's SPA shell with HTTP 200, which is a soft-404, not an endpoint. The collection is LSE's; the platform, the manifests and the APIs are Quartex's.

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aid: lse:digital-library
name: LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)
x-operator: tenant
description: The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections.
  The host CNAMEs to lse.custom.url.quartexcollections.com, an LSE tenancy on Adam Matthew Digital's Quartex
  platform, and all assets and service endpoints resolve to *.quartexcollections.com. The About page states
  IIIF manifests are available per item and that metadata can be downloaded at scale via OAI-PMH, directing
  large-scale users to library.enquiries@lse.ac.uk. No OAI-PMH base URL is published — /oai and /OAI on
  this host return the site's SPA shell with HTTP 200, which is a soft-404, not an endpoint. The collection
  is LSE's; the platform, the manifests and the APIs are Quartex's.
humanURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
baseURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/
tags:
- Library
- Digital Collections
- IIIF
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about