Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Collection API
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Ogc Collection API
version: 1.0.0
contact:
name: CubeWerx Inc.
email: pvretano@cubewerx.com
url: https://www.cubewerx.com
license:
name: CC-BY 4.0 license
url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
description: 'Operations tagged Collection across 3 of this provider''s published API definitions: ogc-records-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-records-1-example-all-in-one.yaml, ogc-records-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-records-1-example-ref-buildingblocks-bundle.yaml, ogc-records-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-records-1-example-ref-schema-repo.yaml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://example.org/data
description: Production server
- url: https://example.org/data-dev
description: Development server
security:
- openIdConnect: []
tags:
- name: Collection
description: description of a catalog offered by this API
paths:
/collections/{catalogId}:
get:
tags:
- Collection
summary: describe the record collection with id `catalogId`
description: 'Fetch a detailed description of a catalog or collection of records
with id `catalogId`.'
operationId: describeCollection
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/catalogId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/language'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/profile'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Catalog'
4XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
5XX:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
servers:
- url: https://example.org/data
description: Production server
- url: https://example.org/data-dev
description: Development server
components:
responses:
Catalog:
description: "Information about the record collection with id `collectionId`.\n\nThe response contains a link to the items in the collection\n(path `/collections/{collectionId}/items`, link relation `items`)\nas well as key information about the collection. This information\nincludes:\n\n* A local identifier for the collection that is unique for the +\n catalog;\n* A list of coordinate reference systems (CRS) in which geometries +\n may be returned by the server. The first CRS is the default +\n coordinate reference system (the default is always WGS 84 with +\n axis order longitude/latitude);\n* An optional title and description for the collection;\n* An optional extent that can be used to provide an indication of +\n the spatial and temporal extent of the collection - typically +\n derived from the data;\n* An optional indicator about the type of the items in the collection +\n (the default value, if the indicator is not provided, is 'record')."
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/catalog'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
NotFound:
description: 'The requested resource does not exist on the server. For example,
a path parameter had an incorrect value.'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
ServerError:
description: A server error occurred.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
NotAcceptable:
description: 'Content negotiation failed. For example, the `Accept` header submitted
in the request did not support any of the media types supported by the
server for the requested resource.'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
BadRequest:
description: A client error occurred.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
parameters:
language:
name: language
in: query
description: 'Optional way to query for specific languages for environments that can''t
send HTTP headers in a simple way (e.g. a Web Browser).
The parameter accepts a comma-separated list of language identifiers,
optionally with priority per language.
This parameter value follows the specification of the `Accept-Language`
HTTP header.'
schema:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: 'The language tag as per RFC 5646, with optional priority parameter
`q` (0 - 1).'
pattern: ^((?:(en-GB-oed|i-ami|i-bnn|i-default|i-enochian|i-hak|i-klingon|i-lux|i-mingo|i-navajo|i-pwn|i-tao|i-tay|i-tsu|sgn-BE-FR|sgn-BE-NL|sgn-CH-DE)|(art-lojban|cel-gaulish|no-bok|no-nyn|zh-guoyu|zh-hakka|zh-min|zh-min-nan|zh-xiang))|((?:([A-Za-z]{2,3}(-(?:[A-Za-z]{3}(-[A-Za-z]{3}){0,2}))?)|[A-Za-z]{4}|[A-Za-z]{5,8})(-(?:[A-Za-z]{4}))?(-(?:[A-Za-z]{2}|[0-9]{3}))?(-(?:[A-Za-z0-9]{5,8}|[0-9][A-Za-z0-9]{3}))*(-(?:[0-9A-WY-Za-wy-z](-[A-Za-z0-9]{2,8})+))*(-(?:x(-[A-Za-z0-9]{1,8})+))?)|(?:x(-[A-Za-z0-9]{1,8})+))(?:;q=(?:1|1\.0+|0|0\.[0-9]+))?$
explode: false
style: form
catalogId:
name: catalogId
in: path
description: local identifier of a catalog
required: true
schema:
type: string
profile:
name: profile
in: query
description: "One or more identifiers that provide information about additional\nsemantics (constraints, conventions, extensions), in addition to \nthose defined by the media type, that are associated with the\ntarget resource."
required: false
schema:
type: array
items:
type: string
explode: false
style: form
schemas:
linkBase:
type: object
properties:
rel:
type: string
description: The type or semantics of the relation.
type:
type: string
description: 'A hint indicating what the media type of the
result of dereferencing the link should be.'
hreflang:
type: string
description: 'A hint indicating what the language of the
result of dereferencing the link should be.'
title:
type: string
description: 'Used to label the destination of a link
such that it can be used as a human-readable
identifier.'
length:
type: integer
profile:
type: array
description: "One or more identifiers that provide information about additional\nsemantics (constraints, conventions, extensions), in addition to \nthose defined by the media type, that are associated with the\ntarget resource."
items:
type: string
created:
type: string
description: 'Date of creation of the resource pointed to
by the link.'
format: date-time
updated:
type: string
description: 'Most recent date on which the resource pointed
to by the link was changed.'
format: date-time
f-collection:
description: 'Imported from OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core
See: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/schemas/collection.yaml'
type: object
required:
- id
- links
properties:
id:
description: identifier of the collection used, for example, in URIs
type: string
example: address
title:
description: human readable title of the collection
type: string
example: address
description:
description: a description of the features in the collection
type: string
example: An address.
links:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
example:
- href: http://data.example.com/buildings
rel: item
- href: http://example.com/concepts/buildings.html
rel: describedby
type: text/html
extent:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/f-extent'
itemType:
description: 'indicator about the type of the items in the collection (the
default value is ''feature'').'
type: string
default: feature
crs:
description: the list of coordinate reference systems supported by the service
type: array
items:
type: string
default:
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84
example:
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
f-extent:
description: 'Imported from OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core
See: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/schemas/extent.yaml
The extent of the features in the collection. In the Core only spatial
and temporal extents are specified. Extensions may add additional
members to represent other extents, for example, thermal or pressure
ranges.
An array of extents is provided for each extent type (spatial,
temporal). The first item in the array describes the overall extent of
the data. All subsequent items describe more precise extents, e.g., to
identify clusters of data. Clients only interested in the overall
extent will only need to access the first extent in the array.'
type: object
properties:
spatial:
description: The spatial extent of the features in the collection.
type: object
properties:
bbox:
description: 'One or more bounding boxes that describe the spatial extent
of the dataset.
In the Core only a single bounding box is supported.
Extensions may support additional areas.
The first bounding box describes the overall spatial
extent of the data. All subsequent bounding boxes describe
more precise bounding boxes, e.g., to identify clusters of data.
Clients only interested in the overall spatial extent will
only need to access the first bounding box in the array.'
type: array
minItems: 1
items:
description: 'Each bounding box is provided as four or six numbers,
depending on whether the coordinate reference system
includes a vertical axis (height or depth):
* Lower left corner, coordinate axis 1
* Lower left corner, coordinate axis 2
* Minimum value, coordinate axis 3 (optional)
* Upper right corner, coordinate axis 1
* Upper right corner, coordinate axis 2
* Maximum value, coordinate axis 3 (optional)
If the value consists of four numbers, the coordinate
reference system is WGS 84 longitude/latitude (http://www.
opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84) unless a different
coordinate reference system is specified in `crs`.
If the value consists of six numbers, the coordinate
reference system is WGS 84 longitude/latitude/ellipsoidal
height (http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/0/CRS84h)
unless a different coordinate reference system is specified
in `crs`.
For WGS 84 longitude/latitude the values are in most cases
the sequence of minimum longitude, minimum latitude, maximum
longitude and maximum latitude. However, in cases where the
box spans the antimeridian the first value (west-most box
edge) is larger than the third value (east-most box edge).
If the vertical axis is included, the third and the sixth
number are the bottom and the top of the 3-dimensional
bounding box.
If a feature has multiple spatial geometry properties, it is
the decision of the server whether only a single spatial
geometry property is used to determine the extent or all
relevant geometries.'
type: array
oneOf:
- minItems: 4
maxItems: 4
- minItems: 6
maxItems: 6
items:
type: number
example:
- -180
- -90
- 180
- 90
crs:
description: 'Coordinate reference system of the coordinates in the spatial
extent (property `bbox`). The default reference system is WGS
84 longitude/latitude. In the Core the only other supported
coordinate reference system is WGS 84 longitude/latitude/
ellipsoidal height for coordinates with height.
Extensions may support additional coordinate reference systems
and add additional enum values.'
type: string
enum:
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/0/CRS84h
default: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84
temporal:
description: The temporal extent of the features in the collection.
type: object
properties:
interval:
description: 'One or more time intervals that describe the temporal extent
of the dataset. In the Core only a single time interval is
supported.
Extensions may support multiple intervals.
The first time interval describes the overall temporal extent
of the data. All subsequent time intervals describe more
precise time intervals, e.g., to identify clusters of data.
Clients only interested in the overall temporal extent will
only need to access the first time interval in the array (a
pair of lower and upper bound instants).'
type: array
minItems: 1
items:
description: 'Begin and end times of the time interval. The timestamps are
in the temporal coordinate reference system specified in
`trs`. By default this is the Gregorian calendar.
The value `null` at start or end is supported and indicates
a half-bounded interval.'
type: array
minItems: 2
maxItems: 2
items:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: date-time
example:
- '2011-11-11T12:22:11Z'
- null
trs:
description: 'Coordinate reference system of the coordinates in the temporal
extent (property `interval`). The default reference system is
the Gregorian calendar. In the Core this is the only supported
temporal coordinate reference system.
Extensions may support additional temporal coordinate reference
systems and add additional enum values.'
type: string
enum:
- http://www.opengis.net/def/uom/ISO-8601/0/Gregorian
default: http://www.opengis.net/def/uom/ISO-8601/0/Gregorian
roles:
description: 'The list of duties, job functions or permissions assigned by the system
and associated with the context of this member.'
type: array
minItems: 1
items:
type: string
linkTemplate:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/linkBase'
- type: object
required:
- uriTemplate
properties:
uriTemplate:
type: string
description: 'Supplies a resolvable URI to a remote resource
(or resource fragment).'
varBase:
type: string
description: 'The base URI to which the variable name can be
appended to retrieve the definition of the
variable as a JSON Schema fragment.'
format: uri-reference
variables:
type: object
description: 'This object contains one key per substitution
variable in the templated URL. Each key defines
the schema of one substitution variable using a
JSON Schema fragment and can thus include things
like the data type of the variable, enumerations,
minimum values, maximum values, etc.'
language:
type: object
description: The language used for textual values in this record.
required:
- code
properties:
code:
type: string
description: The language tag as per RFC-5646.
name:
type: string
minLength: 1
description: The untranslated name of the language.
alternate:
type: string
description: 'The name of the language in another well-understood language,
usually English.'
dir:
type: string
description: 'The direction for text in this language. The default, `ltr`
(left-to-right), represents the most common situation.
However, care should be taken to set the value of `dir`
appropriately if the language direction is not `ltr`.
Other values supported are `rtl` (right-to-left), `ttb`
(top-to-bottom), and `btt` (bottom-to-top).'
enum:
- ltr
- rtl
- ttb
- btt
default: ltr
license:
type: string
description: 'A legal document under which the resource is made available.
If the resource is being made available under a common license
then use an SPDX license id (https://spdx.org/licenses/).
If the resource is being made available under multiple common
licenses then use an SPDX license expression v2.3 string
(https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/SPDX-license-expressions/)
If the resource is being made available under one or more licenses
that haven''t been assigned an SPDX identifier or one or more custom
licenses then use a string value of ''other'' and include one or more
links (rel="license") in the `link` section of the record to the
file(s) that contains the text of the license(s).
There is also the case of a resource that is private or unpublished
and is thus unlicensed; in this case do not register such a resource
in the catalog in the first place since there is no point in making
such a resource discoverable.'
exception:
description: 'Imported from OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core
See: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/schemas/exception.yaml'
type: object
required:
- code
properties:
code:
type: string
description:
type: string
defaultSortOrder:
type: array
items:
type: object
required:
- field
- direction
properties:
field:
type: string
direction:
type: string
enum:
- asc
- desc
link:
type: object
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/linkBase'
- type: object
required:
- href
properties:
href:
type: string
format: uri
contact:
type: object
description: 'Identification of, and means of communication with, person responsible
for the resource.'
anyOf:
- required:
- name
- required:
- organization
properties:
identifier:
type: string
description: A value uniquely identifying a contact.
name:
type: string
description: The name of the responsible person.
position:
type: string
description: 'The name of the role or position of the responsible person taken
from the organization''s formal organizational hierarchy or chart.'
organization:
type: string
description: Organization/affiliation of the contact.
logo:
description: 'Graphic identifying a contact. The link relation should be `icon`
and the media type should be an image media type.'
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
- type: object
required:
- rel
- type
properties:
rel:
enum:
- icon
phones:
type: array
description: Telephone numbers at which contact can be made.
items:
type: object
required:
- value
properties:
value:
type: string
description: The value is the phone number itself.
pattern: ^\+[1-9]{1}[0-9]{3,14}$
roles:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/roles'
emails:
type: array
description: Email addresses at which contact can be made.
items:
type: object
required:
- value
properties:
value:
type: string
description: The value is the email number itself.
format: email
roles:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/roles'
addresses:
type: array
description: Physical location at which contact can be made.
items:
type: object
properties:
deliveryPoint:
type: array
description: Address lines for the location.
items:
type: string
city:
type: string
description: City for the location.
administrativeArea:
type: string
description: State or province of the location.
postalCode:
type: string
description: ZIP or other postal code.
country:
type: string
description: Country of the physical address. ISO 3166-1 is recommended.
roles:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/roles'
links:
type: array
description: On-line information about the contact.
items:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
- type: object
required:
- type
hoursOfService:
type: string
description: Time period when the contact can be contacted.
contactInstructions:
type: string
description: 'Supplemental instructions on how or when to contact the
responsible party.'
roles:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/roles'
scheme:
type: object
required:
- scheme-id
- namespace
properties:
scheme-id:
type: string
description: "An identifier for this namespace. The identifier can be used as a \nshort-form for the namespace."
namespace:
type: string
description: 'A declarative region that provides a scope to the identifiers
inside it. It is recommended that the value of namespace be a URI.'
resolver:
description: 'An extensible description of a mechanism that resolves a scheme
identifier (scheme-id) to its namespace.'
type: object
recordCommonProperties:
type: object
properties:
created:
type: string
description: The date this record was created in the server.
format: date-time
updated:
type: string
description: The most recent date on which the record was changed.
format: date-time
type:
type: string
description: 'The nature or genre of the resource. The value
should be a code, convenient for filtering
records. Where available, a link to the canonical
URI of the record type resource will be added to
the ''links'' property.'
title:
type: string
description: A human-readable name given to the resource.
description:
type: string
description: A free-text account of the resource.
keywords:
type: array
description: 'The topic or topics of the resource. Typically
represented using free-form keywords, tags, key
phrases, or classification codes.'
items:
type: string
themes:
type: array
description: 'A knowledge organization system used to classify
the resource.'
minItems: 1
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/theme'
language:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/language'
languages:
type: array
description: 'This list of languages in which this record is
available.'
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/language'
resourceLanguages:
type: array
description: 'The list of languages in which the resource
described by this record is available.'
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/language'
externalIds:
type: array
description: 'An identifier for the resource assigned by an
external (to the catalog) entity.'
items:
type: object
properties:
scheme:
type: string
description: 'A reference to an authority or identifier
for a knowledge organization system from
which the external identifier was obtained.
It is recommended that the identifier be a
resolvable URI.'
value:
type: string
description: The value of the identifier.
required:
- value
formats:
type: array
description: A list of available distributions of the resource.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/format'
contacts:
type: array
description: 'A list of contacts qualified by their role(s) in
association to the record or the resource described
by the record.'
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/contact'
license:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/license'
rights:
type: string
description: 'A statement that concerns all rights not addressed
by the license such as a copyright statement.'
catalogCommonProperties:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/recordCommonProperties'
- type: object
required:
- type
properties:
type:
description: 'Fixed to "Collection" for collections of records and/or
subordinate catalogs. Wanted to use the JSON-Schema const
key work but all the swagger validators tried complained
about it.'
type: string
enum:
- Collection
conformsTo:
type: array
description: The extensions/conformance classes used in this collection.
items:
type: string
recordsArrayName:
description: "If records are encoded in-line within the catalog object,\nthis member advertises the name of the array member that \ncontains the catalog records. By default the name of the\nrecords array is \"records\". However, the name of this \narray member may be different. A local resources catalog\nis an example of a circumstance where the records array\nmember may be named something other than \"records\". For\nexample, in the case of a local resource catalog at the \n/collections endpoint, the name of the records array is\n\"collections\"."
type: string
default: records
records:
type: array
description: 'An array of records that are part of this catalog that
are encoded in-line within the catalog object.
The items schema is intentionally general (i.e. object)
to accomodate records that have been extended beyond
the core record schema.'
items:
type: object
links:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
linkTemplates:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/linkTemplate'
defaultSortOrder:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/defaultSortOrder'
schemes:
type: array
description: A list of schemes used in this context.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/scheme'
catalog:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/f-collection'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/catalogCommonProperties'
- type: object
properties:
itemType:
description: 'If this catalog is a homogenous collection
of records then itemType is a string of fixed
value of record.
If this catalog is a homogenous collection
of other catalogs then itemType is a string of
fixed value of catalog.
If this catalog is a heterogenous collection
of records and catalogs then itemType is a array
indicated that item types of the members of this
collections (i.e. record and/or catalog).'
oneOf:
- type: string
enum:
- record
- catalog
- type: array
items:
type: string
enum:
- record
- catalog
format:
type: object
anyOf:
- required:
- name
- required:
- mediaType
properties:
name:
type: string
mediaType:
type: string
theme:
type: object
required:
- concepts
- scheme
properties:
concepts:
type: array
description: 'One or more entity/concept identifiers from this knowledge
system. it is recommended that a resolvable URI be used for
each entity/concept identifier.'
minItems: 1
items:
type: object
required:
- id
properties:
id:
type: string
description: An identifier for the concept.
title:
type: string
description: A human readable title for the concept.
description:
type: string
description: A human readable description for the concept.
url:
type: string
format: uri
description: A URI providing further description of the concept.
scheme:
type: string
description: 'An identifier for the knowledge organization system used
to classify the resource. It is recommended that the
identifier be a resolvable URI. The list of schemes used
in a search
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