University of Chicago Records API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Knowledge@UChicago Repository Records API
  version: '13.1'
  description: 'Read API for Knowledge@UChicago, the University of Chicago''s institutional repository, running self-hosted InvenioRDM 13.1 on the institution''s own domain. PROVENANCE: the University does not publish an OpenAPI description for this surface. This document was DERIVED by API Evangelist from live probe responses on 2026-08-19 — it describes observed behaviour, not a contract the institution authored, and must not be read as one. Write, draft and file-upload operations exist in InvenioRDM but require authentication and were not probed; they are deliberately absent here rather than guessed.'
  contact:
    name: Knowledge@UChicago
    email: info@knowledge.uchicago.edu
    url: https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/
  license:
    name: See individual record rights statements
    url: https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-19'
    method: derived
    source: Live unauthenticated HTTP probes of https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/api/ on 2026-08-19; response shapes read from the returned JSON. Platform version read from the <meta name="generator" content="InvenioRDM 13.1"/> tag served by the application.
    x-operator: institution
    x-operator-basis: Host knowledge.uchicago.edu is under the institution's own registrable domain uchicago.edu, and InvenioRDM is open-source software the institution self-hosts rather than a vendor tenancy.
servers:
- url: https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/api
  description: Knowledge@UChicago production repository
  x-operator: institution
  x-verified: '2026-08-19'
tags:
- name: records
  description: Published repository records.
paths:
  /records:
    get:
      tags:
      - records
      summary: Search published records
      description: Returns a paged, faceted hit list of published records. Verified live 2026-08-19 — HTTP 200, application/json, hits.total 15893.
      operationId: searchRecords
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        description: Search query.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: size
        in: query
        description: Page size.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: page
        in: query
        description: Page number, 1-based.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: sort
        in: query
        description: Sort order.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A page of records.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordList'
  /records/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - records
      summary: Get a single published record
      description: Returns one record by its persistent identifier. Verified live 2026-08-19; an identifier that does not exist returns a genuine HTTP 404 with a JSON body, not a soft-404.
      operationId: getRecord
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Record persistent identifier, e.g. 32tcw-22w75.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The record.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Record'
        '404':
          description: The persistent identifier does not exist.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    Creator:
      type: object
      properties:
        person_or_org:
          type: object
          properties:
            name:
              type: string
            type:
              type: string
            identifiers:
              type: array
              description: Typed identifiers; scheme values observed include orcid, isni and gnd.
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  scheme:
                    type: string
                  identifier:
                    type: string
        affiliations:
          type: array
          description: Typed affiliation identifiers; scheme values observed include ror and grid.
          items:
            type: object
    RecordMetadata:
      type: object
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
        publisher:
          type: string
        publication_date:
          type: string
        resource_type:
          type: object
        creators:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Creator'
        rights:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        copyright:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
    RecordList:
      type: object
      properties:
        hits:
          type: object
          properties:
            total:
              type: integer
            hits:
              type: array
              items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Record'
        aggregations:
          type: object
          description: Facets — access_status, file_type, resource_type.
        sortBy:
          type: string
        links:
          type: object
          properties:
            self:
              type: string
              format: uri
            next:
              type: string
              format: uri
    Record:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        created:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        updated:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        revision_id:
          type: integer
        is_published:
          type: boolean
        is_draft:
          type: boolean
        status:
          type: string
        pids:
          type: object
          description: Persistent identifiers. DataCite DOIs are minted under the 10.6082 prefix.
        parent:
          type: object
        versions:
          type: object
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordMetadata'
        access:
          type: object
        files:
          type: object
        media_files:
          type: object
        custom_fields:
          type: object
        stats:
          type: object
        links:
          type: object
          description: Includes self, self_html, doi, self_doi, parent, versions, files, archive, latest, communities and requests. Also self_iiif_manifest and self_iiif_sequence — InvenioRDM serves IIIF for record files.
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
        message:
          type: string