# OCHRE Data Service API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-chicago/ochre-data-service/  
**Provider:** University of Chicago — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-chicago/  
**Base URL:** https://ochre.lib.uchicago.edu/ochre  
**Documentation:** https://ochre.uchicago.edu/

OCHRE Data Service API is one of 44 APIs that [University of Chicago](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-chicago/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Digital Humanities, Ancient Studies, XML, and Persistent Identifiers. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

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

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## Tags

Research Data, Digital Humanities, Ancient Studies, XML, Persistent Identifiers

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