# UC San Diego Library Digital Collections JSON API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/library-digital-collections-api/  
**Provider:** University of California, San Diego — https://apis.io/providers/ucsd/  
**Base URL:** https://library.ucsd.edu  
**Documentation:** https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/

UC San Diego Library Digital Collections JSON API is one of 12 APIs that [University of California, San Diego](https://apis.io/providers/ucsd/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Library, Digital Collections, Research Data, Repository, and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Public, read-only JSON search-and-retrieval over the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections, the Library's locally developed Fedora-backed Digital Asset Management System fronted by Blacklight/Solr. Request `.json` on a search or object path and the Solr response is returned directly — /dc/search.json, /dc/object/{id}.json, /dc/collection/{id}.json — with a server-side filter that keeps restricted and embargoed material out of anonymous results. UC San Diego runs this itself on its own origin inside campus address space; it is registered on re3data as an institutional data provider (r3d100011577). UC San Diego publishes no OpenAPI for it, so the contract in this repo was written from live probes and is marked accordingly.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsd/refs/heads/main/openapi/ucsd-library-digital-collections-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/p/about
- **Documentation** — https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011577
- **x-example** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsd/refs/heads/main/examples/ucsd-library-dc-search-example.json
- **x-errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsd/refs/heads/main/errors/ucsd-errors.yml

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- [TritonAI Developer API — completions](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/tritonai-completions-api/)
- [TritonAI Developer API — embeddings](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/tritonai-embeddings-api/)
- [TritonAI Developer API — models](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/tritonai-models-api/)
- [TritonAI Developer API — images](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/tritonai-images-api/)
- [TritonAI Developer API — audio](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/tritonai-audio-api/)
- [TritonAI Developer API — SCIM 2.0 provisioning](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/tritonai-scim-api/)
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- [UC San Diego Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon / eduGAIN)](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/identity-federation/)
- [UC San Diego Web API Portal (Atlassian Confluence Cloud tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/confluence-api-portal/)
- [UC San Diego DOI registration (DataCite / California Digital Library)](https://apis.io/apis/ucsd/datacite-doi-registration/)

## Tags

Library, Digital Collections, Research Data, Repository, Search

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