University of Amsterdam

UvA Library Linked Open Data (TriplyDB tenancy)

The University of Amsterdam Library publishes its digitised collections — books, letters, maps, images, audio, video, sheet music, archaeological objects and the Beeldbank image repository — as linked open data under PDDL/ODC-BY, reachable over REST, SPARQL and GraphQL. The data, the UB-UVA account and the licensing are the library's. The platform is not: api.lod.uba.uva.nl CNAMEs to uba.cname.triply.cc and the OpenAPI served there is titled "TriplyDB API" with info.contact pointing at triply.cc. A single vendor contract, split by tag, previously appeared in this profile as fourteen separate University of Amsterdam APIs. It is recorded here as one tenant relationship, and the contract is left to score against Triply.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation

https://docs.triply.cc/triply-api/

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Documentation

https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html

Other Resources

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x-licence

https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/licences/licences.html

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x-example

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-amsterdam-get-dataset-example.json

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x-example

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-amsterdam-sparql-query-example.json

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x-vocabulary

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/university-of-amsterdam-vocabulary.yml

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x-json-ld-context

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/json-ld/university-of-amsterdam-context.jsonld

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-amsterdam:lod-triply
name: UvA Library Linked Open Data (TriplyDB tenancy)
description: 'The University of Amsterdam Library publishes its digitised collections — books, letters,
  maps, images, audio, video, sheet music, archaeological objects and the Beeldbank image repository —
  as linked open data under PDDL/ODC-BY, reachable over REST, SPARQL and GraphQL. The data, the UB-UVA
  account and the licensing are the library''s. The platform is not: api.lod.uba.uva.nl CNAMEs to uba.cname.triply.cc
  and the OpenAPI served there is titled "TriplyDB API" with info.contact pointing at triply.cc. A single
  vendor contract, split by tag, previously appeared in this profile as fourteen separate University of
  Amsterdam APIs. It is recorded here as one tenant relationship, and the contract is left to score against
  Triply.'
humanURL: https://lod.uba.uva.nl/
baseURL: https://api.lod.uba.uva.nl/datasets/UB-UVA/
tags:
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- SPARQL
- Library
- Digital Collections
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.triply.cc/triply-api/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
- type: x-licence
  url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/licences/licences.html
- type: x-example
  url: examples/university-of-amsterdam-get-dataset-example.json
- type: x-example
  url: examples/university-of-amsterdam-sparql-query-example.json
- type: x-vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-amsterdam-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
  url: json-ld/university-of-amsterdam-context.jsonld
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence:
  dns: api.lod.uba.uva.nl CNAME uba.cname.triply.cc
  contract: info.title "TriplyDB API"; info.contact.name "Triply"; info.contact.url https://triply.cc
  vendor_repo: all/triply
x-status:
  probed: '2026-08-19'
  api_info: 200
  portal: 200