University of Basel

DaSCH DSP-API

The DaSCH Service Platform API (DSP-API, formerly Knora), an open-source HTTP API for long-term preservation, querying, annotation and linking of humanities research data as RDF graphs, with the Gravsearch search language. Developed and operated by the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) at the University of Basel. Public documentation, open-source code on GitHub, and a live service endpoint (HTTP 405 on GET to the v2 ontologies path confirms the endpoint exists).

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Documentation
https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/

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GitHub
https://github.com/dasch-swiss/dsp-api

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-basel:dsp-api
name: DaSCH DSP-API
description: The DaSCH Service Platform API (DSP-API, formerly Knora), an open-source HTTP API for long-term
  preservation, querying, annotation and linking of humanities research data as RDF graphs, with the Gravsearch
  search language. Developed and operated by the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities
  (DaSCH) at the University of Basel. Public documentation, open-source code on GitHub, and a live service
  endpoint (HTTP 405 on GET to the v2 ontologies path confirms the endpoint exists).
humanURL: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
baseURL: https://api.dasch.swiss
tags:
- Research Data
- Digital Humanities
- RDF
- Linked Data
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Research Data
- Digital Humanities
- RDF
- Linked Data
- Open Source
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/dasch-swiss/dsp-api