University of Chicago

OCHRE Data Service API

OCHRE (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment) is the University of Chicago's item-level research database for ancient studies, maintained by the OCHRE Data Service at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. Published items are retrievable as XML by UUID from the institution's own host, and resolvable through the Library's persistent-identifier service at pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/org/ochre/{uuid}. Verified live 2026-08-19 — a real UUID returned HTTP 200, text/xml, 106KB of item data.

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APIReference
https://ochre.lib.uchicago.edu/ochre?uuid=e5e9d6aa-1e63-461a-a8b3-0ee3ac1b2418
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Documentation
https://sites.google.com/view/ochrewiki/general-topics/digital-publication/using-the-ochre-api

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-chicago:ochre-data-service
name: OCHRE Data Service API
description: OCHRE (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment) is the University of Chicago's
  item-level research database for ancient studies, maintained by the OCHRE Data Service at the Institute
  for the Study of Ancient Cultures. Published items are retrievable as XML by UUID from the institution's
  own host, and resolvable through the Library's persistent-identifier service at pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/org/ochre/{uuid}.
  Verified live 2026-08-19 — a real UUID returned HTTP 200, text/xml, 106KB of item data.
humanURL: https://ochre.uchicago.edu/
baseURL: https://ochre.lib.uchicago.edu/ochre
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Hosts ochre.lib.uchicago.edu and pi.lib.uchicago.edu are under the institution's own
  registrable domain uchicago.edu.
x-verified: '2026-08-19'
tags:
- Research Data
- Digital Humanities
- Ancient Studies
- XML
- Persistent Identifiers
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://ochre.lib.uchicago.edu/ochre?uuid=e5e9d6aa-1e63-461a-a8b3-0ee3ac1b2418
- type: Documentation
  url: https://sites.google.com/view/ochrewiki/general-topics/digital-publication/using-the-ochre-api