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TU Dresden explorative search API

API endpoint to be use with the explorative search webapp

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: LOD authority_search explorative search API
  version: '1.0'
  description: Linked Open Data API published by the Saxony State and University Library (SLUB Dresden), which serves TU Dresden. Provides bibliographic and authority data (resources, persons, organizations, events, topics, works, geo) aggregated from K10Plus/SWB, GND and Wikidata, with search, source, reconcile and entity-lookup endpoints. Converted faithfully from the publicly served Swagger 2.0 document at https://data.slub-dresden.de/swagger.json
servers:
- url: https://data.slub-dresden.de
tags:
- name: explorative search
  description: API endpoint to be use with the explorative search webapp
paths:
  /explore/aggregations:
    get:
      tags:
      - explorative search
      summary: aggregate topAuthors, datePublished and relatedTopics around topics
      operationId: aggregateTopics
      parameters:
      - name: topics
        in: query
        required: true
        description: multiple topics to aggregate
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        style: form
        explode: true
      - name: contributor
        in: query
        description: use this specific contributor name as filter for the aggregation result
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: restrict
        in: query
        description: restrict all topic queries to occurrences with this restriction-topic
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        '404':
          description: Record(s) not found
  /explore/correlations:
    get:
      tags:
      - explorative search
      summary: correlate topics with their mutual occurances
      operationId: correlateTopics
      parameters:
      - name: topics
        in: query
        required: true
        description: multiple topics to correlate
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        style: form
        explode: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        '404':
          description: Record(s) not found
  /explore/topicsearch:
    get:
      tags:
      - explorative search
      summary: perform a simple search on the topics index
      operationId: queryTopics
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        description: query string to search
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: size
        in: query
        description: size of the response
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 15
      - name: fields
        in: query
        description: list of internal elasticsearch fields to query against.
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          default:
          - preferredName^2
          - alternateName
          - description
          - additionalType.description
          - additionalType.name
        style: form
        explode: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        '404':
          description: Record(s) not found

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