# Princeton Data Commons — Discovery

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/princeton/data-commons/  
**Provider:** Princeton University — https://apis.io/providers/princeton/  
**Base URL:** https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery  
**Documentation:** https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery

Princeton Data Commons — Discovery is one of 14 APIs that [Princeton University](https://apis.io/providers/princeton/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Repository, DataCite, ORCID, and Open Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

Princeton's research data repository, split into pdc_describe for deposit and description and pdc_discovery for the public portal at datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery. Both are Princeton-written (pulibrary/pdc_discovery, pulibrary/pdc_describe), and the discovery portal exposes an unauthenticated Blacklight JSON API. Datasets are addressed by DataCite DOIs under Princeton's own 10.34770 prefix and records carry ORCID identifiers. This is the slot most universities in this cohort fill with a Figshare or Dataverse tenancy; Princeton operates it themselves.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/princeton/refs/heads/main/conformance/princeton-conformance.yml
- **Website** — https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery

## Other Princeton University APIs (12)

- [Princeton University Library Allsearch API](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/allsearch-api/)
- [Princeton University Art Museum API](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/art-museum-api/)
- [Princeton OIT API Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/oit-api-gateway/)
- [Princeton University Library Catalog (Orangelight)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/catalog/)
- [PUL Bibliographic Data Web Service (Bibdata)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/bibdata/)
- [Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIF](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/figgy-oai/)
- [DataSpace Institutional Repository — OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/dataspace-oai/)
- [Princeton University Library Finding Aids (PULFAlight)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/finding-aids/)
- [Princeton University Library Maps and Geospatial Data (PUL Map)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/maps/)
- [Digital PUL (DPUL)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/digital-pul/)
- [Princeton Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE — Princeton tenancy (01PRI_INST)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/exlibris-tenancy/)

## Tags

Research Data, Repository, DataCite, ORCID, Open Data

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