University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Illinois Data Bank Dataset Metadata

The campus research data repository, built and run in-house by the University Library (github.com/medusa-project/databank, Ruby on Rails) rather than bought from Figshare, Dryad or Dataverse — which makes it one of the few genuinely institution-ENGINEERED research repositories in this cohort. Its catalog is machine-readable without authentication: /datasets.json returns all 1,259 released datasets with identifier, subject, publication and hold state, timestamps, citation and a per-dataset JSON URL. As a registered DataCite repository (client illinois.databank, member since 2018) it has minted 1,306 DOIs under prefix 10.13012, 1,082 of which carry ORCID creator identifiers. There is no published API reference, no OAI-PMH endpoint on this host, and /api/* is a soft-404.

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Documentation
https://databank.illinois.edu/help

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Website
https://databank.illinois.edu/
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SourceCode
https://github.com/medusa-project

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:illinois-data-bank
name: Illinois Data Bank Dataset Metadata
x-operator: institution
description: 'The campus research data repository, built and run in-house by the University Library (github.com/medusa-project/databank,
  Ruby on Rails) rather than bought from Figshare, Dryad or Dataverse — which makes it one of the few
  genuinely institution-ENGINEERED research repositories in this cohort. Its catalog is machine-readable
  without authentication: /datasets.json returns all 1,259 released datasets with identifier, subject,
  publication and hold state, timestamps, citation and a per-dataset JSON URL. As a registered DataCite
  repository (client illinois.databank, member since 2018) it has minted 1,306 DOIs under prefix 10.13012,
  1,082 of which carry ORCID creator identifiers. There is no published API reference, no OAI-PMH endpoint
  on this host, and /api/* is a soft-404.'
humanURL: https://databank.illinois.edu/help
baseURL: https://databank.illinois.edu
tags:
- Research Data
- Open Data
- DataCite
- ORCID
- Repository
- DOI
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://databank.illinois.edu/help
- type: Website
  url: https://databank.illinois.edu/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/medusa-project