# Newcastle University Entity API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/newcastle-entity-api/  
**Provider:** Newcastle University — https://apis.io/providers/newcastle/  
**Base URL:** https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/api/v2.0a  
**Documentation:** https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/

Newcastle University Entity API is one of 8 APIs that [Newcastle University](https://apis.io/providers/newcastle/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Entity. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.

An entity ordinarily describes a spatial location, such as a room in a building, or a pole in the street. In some circumstances, an entity may be a mobile piece of equipment, such as those used for validation, in which case the location will be provided as a timeseries.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newcastle/refs/heads/main/openapi/newcastle-entity-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newcastle/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newcastle-entity-schema.json
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newcastle/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/newcastle-vocabulary.yml
- **x-rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newcastle/refs/heads/main/rules/newcastle-rules.yml
- **x-json-ld** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newcastle/refs/heads/main/json-ld/newcastle-context.jsonld
- **Website** — https://urbanobservatory.ac.uk/

## Other Newcastle University APIs (7)

- [Digitised Objects Repository Search and Data API](https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/digitised-objects/)
- [ECPPEC Electoral Data API](https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/ecppec/)
- [data.ncl Research Data Repository (Figshare)](https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/data-ncl/)
- [EPrints Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/eprints/)
- [Newcastle University Feed API](https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/newcastle-feed-api/)
- [Newcastle University Summary API](https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/newcastle-summary-api/)
- [Newcastle University Timeseries API](https://apis.io/apis/newcastle/newcastle-timeseries-api/)

## Tags

Entity

---

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