University of California, Berkeley

UC Berkeley Library GeoData (GeoBlacklight) Catalog API

The UC Berkeley Library's GIS and map discovery application, built and hosted by the Library itself (the application source is public at BerkeleyLibrary/geodata and the host resolves inside Berkeley's own network to nginx-prod.lib.berkeley.edu). Its Blacklight JSON interface answers anonymous requests at /catalog.json with a paginated JSON:API-shaped response over 5,156 geospatial dataset records described in OpenGeoMetadata Aardvark fields. This is the only Berkeley-operated API that returns institutional data to a caller with no credentials at all. No OpenAPI is published for it and none was generated.

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OpenData

https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/

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GitHub

https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/geodata

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: ucb:geodata
name: UC Berkeley Library GeoData (GeoBlacklight) Catalog API
x-operator: institution
description: The UC Berkeley Library's GIS and map discovery application, built and hosted by the Library
  itself (the application source is public at BerkeleyLibrary/geodata and the host resolves inside Berkeley's
  own network to nginx-prod.lib.berkeley.edu). Its Blacklight JSON interface answers anonymous requests
  at /catalog.json with a paginated JSON:API-shaped response over 5,156 geospatial dataset records described
  in OpenGeoMetadata Aardvark fields. This is the only Berkeley-operated API that returns institutional
  data to a caller with no credentials at all. No OpenAPI is published for it and none was generated.
humanURL: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/
baseURL: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog.json
tags:
- Open Data
- Geospatial Data
- Library
- Discovery
- GeoBlacklight
properties:
- type: OpenData
  url: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/geodata