Stanford University Objects API

Digital Repository Objects

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Operations 21

POST /v1/virtual_objects Create a virtual object #

POST /v1/objects/{id}/publish Publish object to PURL #

POST /v1/objects/{id}/accession Start an assembly workflow, optionally opening a version #

POST /v1/objects/{id}/apply_admin_policy_defaults Applies the default values (copyright, use_statement, rights) from the admin… #

GET /v1/objects/{object_id}/query/collections List the collections that an object belongs to #

GET /v1/objects/{object_id}/members List the members of this collection #

GET /v1/objects/{id}/solr Show solr document for head version #

POST /v1/objects Register a new object #

GET /v1/objects/find Finds an object #

POST /v1/objects/find_all Finds multiple objects #

PATCH /v1/objects/{id} Update object metadata #

GET /v1/objects/{id} Retrieve the object COCINA metadata #

HEAD /v1/objects/{id} Retrieve the head for object COCINA metadata #

DELETE /v1/objects/{id} Destroys the object #

GET /v1/objects/{id}/validate_moab Starts a validate moab job, which does a validation of the on disk Moab… #

GET /v1/objects/{id}/checksum Show the checksums and filesizes for a single object #

GET /v1/objects/{id}/file Returns a specific content, metadata, or manifest file for the object #

POST /v1/objects/{id}/content_diff Retrieves Moab::FileInventoryDifference model from comparison of passed… #

POST /v1/resources Creates a new object #

GET /v1/resources/{id} Retrieve the object metadata #

PUT /v1/resources/{id} Update an existing object #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Stanford Objects API
  version: 1.0.0
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
  description: 'Operations tagged objects across 3 of this provider''s published API definitions: stanford-dor-services-api-openapi.yml, stanford-preservation-catalog-api-openapi.yml, stanford-sdr-api-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://dor-services-{env}.stanford.edu
  description: Production service
  variables:
    env:
      default: prod
- url: https://preservation-catalog-{env}-01.stanford.edu
  description: Production service
  variables:
    env:
      default: prod
- url: https://sdr-api-{env}.stanford.edu
  description: Production service
  variables:
    env:
      default: prod
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:


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