# University of Edinburgh Catalogue API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/university-of-edinburgh-catalogue-api/  
**Provider:** University of Edinburgh — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/  
**Base URL:** https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/

University of Edinburgh Catalogue API is one of 8 APIs that [University of Edinburgh](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Catalogue. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and 2 JSON Schemas.

Read actions on the EIDF Data Catalogue

## Operations (5)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/status_show` | Site status and installed extensions |
| GET | `/package_list` | List every dataset name |
| GET | `/package_search` | Search datasets |
| GET | `/package_show` | Full metadata for one dataset |
| GET | `/organization_list` | List catalogue organisations (EIDF projects) |

## Machine-readable artifacts (17)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-edinburgh-catalogue-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/research-data-service
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-edinburgh-dspace-community-schema.json
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-edinburgh-datashare-communities-example.json
- **x-spectral-rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/rules/university-of-edinburgh-rules.yml
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/university-of-edinburgh-vocabulary.yml
- **x-json-ld-context** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/json-ld/university-of-edinburgh-context.jsonld
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-edinburgh-authentication.yml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/errors/university-of-edinburgh-errors.yml
- **Lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/university-of-edinburgh-lifecycle.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-edinburgh-conformance.yml
- **Documentation** — https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/oai/request?verb=Identify
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-edinburgh-era-communities-example.json
- **Documentation** — https://era.ed.ac.uk/oai/request?verb=Identify
- **Documentation** — https://catalogue.eidf.ac.uk/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-edinburgh-ckan-package-schema.json
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-edinburgh-eidf-package-show-example.json

## Other University of Edinburgh APIs (7)

- [ELM — Edinburgh Language Models API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/elm-api/)
- [University of Edinburgh Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/identity-federation/)
- [Enterprise API Gateway (gated)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/enterprise-api-gateway/)
- [Edinburgh Research Explorer (Elsevier Pure) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/pure-research-explorer/)
- [DiscoverEd Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/discovered-primo/)
- [University of Edinburgh OAI PMH API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/university-of-edinburgh-oai-pmh-api/)
- [University of Edinburgh Repository API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/university-of-edinburgh-repository-api/)

## Tags

Catalogue

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