TU Dresden search and access API

Search and Access Operations

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tu-dresden-search-and-access-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: LOD authority_search search and access 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: search and access
  description: Search and Access Operations
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      tags:
      - search and access
      summary: search over all entity-indices
      operationId: searchAll
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        description: Lucene Query String Search Parameter
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: format
        in: query
        description: 'set the Content-Type over this Query-Parameter. Allowed: nt, rdf, ttl, nq, jsonl, json'
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: sort
        in: query
        description: 'how to sort the returned datasets. like: path_to_property:[asc|desc]'
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: size
        in: query
        description: Configure the maxmimum amount of hits to be returned
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: from
        in: query
        description: Configure the offset from the frist result you want to fetch
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: filter
        in: query
        description: filter the search by a defined value in a path. e.g. path_to_property:value
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        '404':
          description: Record(s) not found
  /{entity_type}/search:
    parameters:
    - name: entity_type
      in: path
      required: true
      description: 'The name of the entity-type to access. Allowed Values: [''organizations'', ''persons'', ''resources'', ''works'', ''events'', ''topics'', ''geo''].'
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - search and access
      summary: search on one given entity-index
      operationId: searchInIndex
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        description: Lucene Query String Search Parameter
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: format
        in: query
        description: 'set the Content-Type over this Query-Parameter. Allowed: nt, rdf, ttl, nq, jsonl, json'
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: size
        in: query
        description: Configure the maxmimum amount of hits to be returned
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 100
      - name: from
        in: query
        description: Configure the offset from the frist result you want to fetch
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 0
      - name: sort
        in: query
        description: 'how to sort the returned datasets. like: path_to_property:[asc|desc]'
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: filter
        in: query
        description: filter the search by a defined value in a path. e.g. path_to_property:value
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        '404':
          description: Record(s) not found
  /{entity_type}/{id}:
    parameters:
    - name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: 'The ID-String of the record to access. Possible Values (examples): 118695940, 130909696'
      schema:
        type: string
    - name: entity_type
      in: path
      required: true
      description: 'The name of the entity-type to access. Allowed Values: [''organizations'', ''persons'', ''resources'', ''works'', ''events'', ''topics'', ''geo''].'
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - search and access
      summary: get a single record of an entity-index, or search for all records containing this record as an attribute via isAttr parameter
      operationId: getRecord
      parameters:
      - name: format
        in: query
        description: 'set the Content-Type over this Query-Parameter. Allowed: nt, rdf, ttl, nq, jsonl, json'
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
        '404':
          description: Record(s) not found