University of Freiburg

FreiData research-data repository REST API

REST API of FreiData, the university's research-data repository, deployed and operated on its own host at freidata.uni-freiburg.de. Anonymous read of records, files and IIIF manifests; records mint DataCite DOIs under the university's own prefix 10.60493. The software is InvenioRDM and the API contract is InvenioRDM's, not the university's — the deployment and the data are Freiburg's, the specification belongs upstream, so no contract is saved here for it.

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Documentation
https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de/
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-freiburg/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-freiburg-authentication.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-freiburg:freidata-rest
name: FreiData research-data repository REST API
x-operator: institution
description: REST API of FreiData, the university's research-data repository, deployed and operated on
  its own host at freidata.uni-freiburg.de. Anonymous read of records, files and IIIF manifests; records
  mint DataCite DOIs under the university's own prefix 10.60493. The software is InvenioRDM and the API
  contract is InvenioRDM's, not the university's — the deployment and the data are Freiburg's, the specification
  belongs upstream, so no contract is saved here for it.
humanURL: https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de/
baseURL: https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de/api/records
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- InvenioRDM
- REST
- Open Data
x-software: InvenioRDM
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-freiburg-authentication.yml